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An optical sensor that’s 1 million times more sensitive than the current best available has been developed by Case Western Reserve University researchers. Based on nanostructured metamaterials, it can identify a single lightweight molecule in a highly dilute solution.

Fruit flies live 16% longer than average when given low doses of the mood stabiliser lithium, according to a UCL-led study.

The new method shows first positive results. An article describing current achievements appeared in Spinal Cord. The method is based on transporting therapeutic genes and cord blood cells to the damaged region of the spinal cord. Tests on rats show recoveries of motor functions.

Technology companies routinely build sprawling data centers to store all the baby pictures, financial transactions, funny cat videos and email messages its users hoard. But a new technique developed by University of Washington and Microsoft researchers could shrink the space needed to store digital data that today would fill a Walmart supercenter down to the size of a sugar cube.

Stanford scientists have resurrected a discarded drug that helps human cells in a lab dish fight off two different viruses. Based on what they learned about how the drug works, it might also help fight the viruses that cause Ebola, dengue and Zika, among others.

Study co-led by Penn Medicine researcher shows non-coding DNA acting as enhancer of nearby gene's expression

Harvard Medical School researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital explain in a new paper how brain connections, or synapses, are lost early in Alzheimer’s disease. They also show that the process starts before telltale plaques accumulate in the brain. Their work, published online March 31 in Science, suggests new therapeutic targets to preserve cognitive function early in Alzheimer’s disease.

New tablet attaches to the lining of the GI tract, resists being pulled away.