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DNA released by damaged heart cells triggers inflammation and cardiac failure, new reseach has shown.

Never mind Gorillas In The Mist, how about gorillas in the lab? Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have...

You are less likely to get Alzheimer’s disease if you’re more active - and even doing the washing-up counts.

Drugs delivered directly to the brain by nanoparticles could be used to treat cerebral palsy.

Drugs attached to nanoparticles reduce the symptoms of Cerebral Palsy in rabbits if given soon after birth, by getting...

With over 130,000 people suffering some paralysis as a result of spinal injury each year, devices that can bypass the...

Scar tissue in injured hearts can be converted back into healthy cardiac muscle using gene therapy, US scientists have...

Rod precursor cells transplanted from the eyes of newborn mice into blind adult animals can restore vision, UK...

Researchers have found a possible treatment for Fragile X syndrome – the most common genetic cause of mental...

New research has found that levels of oxygen in the womb could play a key role in the development of the birth defect...

Picking out a single voice in a noisy room can be a challenge. Our ears are assaulted by a wide range of noises that...

Cancerous colon cells have a distinctive genetic signature, which could be used to develop personalised treatments, or...

A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a...

Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early...

A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel

Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D...

Scientists submerge themselves in sewage for an indication of drug use.

The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the...

Nanoparticles used routinely in wastewater cleanups can encourage bacteria to breed superbugs, new research has shown...

March is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, but we still don't have a reliable screening test. A new study...

How the intestine tells harmless food items from potentially harmful bacteria or parasites has been revealed by...

Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands,...

Scientists at UCLA have identified around 2,000 genes in zebrafinches linked to singing - more than 1,500 than were...

The bacteria that live in your intestines change the way that blood vessels form inside your gut. New research...