A team at Northwestern University has created a paperback-sized device that can rest within the soil and draw energy from it. The dirt-powered fuel cell is quite unique and can draw almost limitless ...

There are about 50 million people worldwide with doctor-diagnosed arthritis. That number is expected to rise to 67 million by 2030. Arthritis is a disease of the joint where the cartilage between the ...

When a tissue experiences inflammation, its cells remember. Pinning proteins to its genetic material at the height of inflammation, the cells bookmark where they left off in their last tussle. Next ...

Armed with a wand and funky spectacles, Beatrice Steinert steps into a world of lush green mounds and bright blue dots. “To me, this is literally sitting right here,” she says, as she strokes ...

A new method for extracting molecules from live cells without disrupting cell development has been devised by scientists, work that could provide new avenues for the diagnosis of cancer and other ...

Cells “dance” as they draw together during early embryo development. Cells within an 8-cell embryo shown to ‘dance’ to the same rhythm. The same kind of contraction that fires our muscles also ...

Imagine if in order to get apple juice, the whole tree had to be ground up, and then the juice had to be separated from everything else. Well, that's kind of how things currently are with therapeutic ...

HADN'T we all agreed -- we supporters of stem cell research -- that it was morally OK to destroy a tiny human embryo for its possibly curative stem cells because these embryos from fertility clinics ...

Neuroscientists used a new, gene-based classification of mouse brain cell types and additional information about neuron shape to uncover two new types of neurons involved in movement. (Credit: Michael ...

Scientists in Japan are developing sweat-powered wearable electronics that outperform previously reported lactate biofuel cells and can be screen printed for mass production. The team, led by ...

Sofia Gardella's favourite pastimes are swimming, riding her bike and spending time with her friends. Yet Sofia, 11, wouldn't be enjoying these simple pleasures today had it not been for a lifesaving ...