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Researchers in Isreal have developed a new way to optimise antibiotic treatment and reduce the risk of bacterial...

A route through which Parkinson's Disease may be triggered in the intestine and then access the brain has been...

How the tuberculosis bacterium overwhelms our immune defenses to trigger active TB disease has been demonstrated by...

Einstein's theory of General Relativity, conceived a century ago, has enabled astronomers to weigh a nearby star,...

Using a new technique, UK scientists have shown that developing babies preferentially look at patterns of light...

The way in which the mind deciphers faces to tell us apart comes down to just a few hundred nerve cells in our brain...

The reason why Zika virus attacks the developing brain to cause microcephaly has been solved by scientists in Cambridge...

The long-standing question of why, and how, flamingos balance on just one leg seems to be about minimising muscular...

Humans can tell an unhealthy individual just from their face and smell using a network hardwired into all of us to keep...

Mice conceived using sperm flown in space are healthy and have normal fertility themselves, Japanese scientists have...

More than 70 years has passed since the Zika virus was first identified in Africa; now a new study has revealed why it...

A way to create replacement stem cells that can produce blood and immune cells has been demonstrated for the first time...

An artificial bone complete with a bone marrow cavity capable of making new blood cells has been tested successfully in...

Regularly hailed as the best instruments in the business, 17th and 18th Century Stradivarius violins fetch millions on...

Caterpillars that can munch their way through plastic bags have been described by scientists in Cambridge.

Cells controlled remotely by a smartphone app can release insulin into the bloodstream to regulate glucose levels in...

A hydrogel-based dressing, chemically tweaked so it can selectively soak up inflammatory signals but leave pro-healing...

A substance isolated from the skin of a frog destroys influenza virus particles...

Ancient proteins provide clues for biotech.

A new sex test could help to save endangered sea turtles.

Researchers find a molecule that can turn back the clock.

With photosynthesis levels rising, could plants be the key to combating climate change?

Everyone loves catching some ZZZs. For some of us, sleep is not always restful, and for scientists, it’s still a bit of...

In an effect that scientists are attributing to an intestinal microbial upset, animals treated with penicillin during...