Medicine News Stories

This week, the ‘Godfather of ecstasy’,who synthesised and tested over 200 psychoactive substances, died peacefully in...

This week the Royal College of Physicians criticised the standard of asthma care in the UK. Here's your Quick Fire...

A new pair of artificial DNA letters have been engineered into bacteria by US scientists.

Researchers have created cloned human embryonic stem cells from adult cells for the first time, according to a report...

A new study suggests a reason why men may have shorter average lifespans than women - it could be down to misplaced Y...

Researchers at Cambridge University have made a step forward in understanding - and maybe tackling - a rare accelerated...

An all-in-one DNA editing kit capable of repairing genetic mistakes in cells has been developed by scientists in...

Humans give off sex-specific smells that affect the way we think about each other.

How to grow human skin from stem cells has been discovered by UK scientists.

This week, a teenage boy survived the 5 hour flight from California to Hawaii, in the wheel well of a plane. How...

Australian scientists have used cochlear implants to deliver hearing-restoring gene therapy treatments to the inner ear.

Tests comparing Stradivari with modern-made violins failed to find any sonic advantage of the celebrated Strad...

Replacement vaginas have been grown in the dish and implanted into four women with congenital absence of the vagina and...

A computer has come up with the best way to recover from jetlag, according to new research.

Researchers have made a step forward in understanding the gene fault lying behind a rare balding condition.

Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in California say they have new evidence that autism begins...

Research has shown that eye-contact with a cereal packet makes you more likely to buy it...

A new blood test pioneered by doctors in the US will make asthma much easier to diagnose...

Wednesday, the 2nd of April was World Autism Awareness Day. Here's your Quick Fire Science to help you get to...

A gel that can be applied up to three hours after sexual activity could protect women against HIV infection, new...

A team led by scientists from Switzerland, Denmark and the UK have unearthed a ‘microbial Pompeii’ on the teeth of 1,...

A breakthrough from researchers in California could provide a solution to the shortage of donor organs for liver...

Are meat eggs, milk and cheese as deadly as smoking? Could a high protein Atkins diet lead to an earlier death?

Scientists have resuscitated a massive virus that has lain frozen for 30,000 years in Siberian permafrost.