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The Cleveland Clinic announced its list of the Top 10 medical innovations that have the potential to transform health care in 2017.

Pressure responsive bacteria could create the foundations of buildings in the future, new research suggests.

A group of researchers from RIKEN and Michigan State University have used the powerful K computer to show how molecules move within the extremely crowded interior of a bacterial cell.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Ludwig Cancer Research have measured the absolute numbers of short, non-coding, RNA sequences in individual embryonic stem cells. The new method could improve the understanding of how our genes are regulated and different cell types develop.

A new kind of bioluminescent sensor causes individual brain cells to imitate fireflies and glow in the dark.

Embryonic neural stem cells transplanted into damaged areas of the visual cortex of adult mice were able to differentiate into pyramidal cells — forming normal synaptic connections, responding to visual stimuli, and integrating into neural networks — researchers at LMU Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Martinsried and the Helmholtz Zentrum München have demonstrated.

Scientists have identified for the first time the region in the brain responsible for the «placebo effect» in pain relief, when a fake treatment actually results in substantial reduction of pain, according to new research from Northwestern Medicine and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC).

Cellular senescence is a state in which normal healthy cells do not have the ability to divide. Senescence can occur when cancer-causing genes are activated in normal cells or when chemotherapy is used on cancer cells.