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A team of scientists and surgeons have discovered a promising new approach to treating colorectal cancer by disarming the gene that drives self-renewal in stem cells that are the root cause of disease, resistance to trea...

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in transforming human stem cells into functional lung and airway cells. The advance has significant potential for modeling lung disease, screening drugs, studying human lung ...

Nanosponges that soak up a dangerous pore-forming toxin produced by MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) could serve as a safe and effective vaccine against this toxin. This "nanosponge vaccine" enabled the...

Chaotic dark scars on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon may be a sign of vigorous currents in the ocean below, which could help sustain life     

Mice whose father feared a smell like cherry blossom reacted to the same odour, even though they had never come across it before     

Hands-free devices like Google Glass can be really transformative when the hands they free are those of a surgeon. And leading hospitals, including Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco, are beginnin...

The job of a materials scientist--to warp matter into new and useful forms--has historically involved a ridiculous amount of guesswork. That’s because the quantum-mechanical equations that... --

(University of Oregon) With the help of a new method, University of Oregon scientists have provided new insight into how solar water-splitting cells work. An important and overlooked parameter, they report, is the ion-pe...

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) "BGU welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with Elion," says Professor Pedro Berliner, the director of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research. "The ...

I just squeaked over the word limit for NaNoWriMo today, more formally known as National Novel Writing Month. It takes place every November and people around the world try to put down 50,000 words in 30 days. I’ll admi...

The orchid mantis, whose flowery disguise comes complete with legs shaped like petals, is even better than flowers at luring insects. This is the only animal in the world known to look like a flower blossom in order to a...

From mantises that look like orchids to lure prey to insects that mimic sticks to blend in with their branch-y surroundings, here's a look at the animal world's plant mimics.