Science & Medicine

Stretchy hydrogel ‘Band-Aid’ senses, lights up, delivers medicine

MIT engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky,...

DNA-guided 3-D printing of human tissue is unveiled

A UCSF-led team has developed a technique to build tiny models of human tissues,...

Brazilian wasp venom kills cancer cells by opening them up

The social wasp Polybia paulista protects itself against predators by producing venom known to...

First look at ‘wasabi receptor’ brings insights for pain drug development

In a feat that would have been unachievable only a few years ago, researchers...

Ebola vaccine effective in a single dose

An interdisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Profectus...

Many People with Missing Teeth Don’t Need Dentures

The latest research from the University of Adelaide challenges current thinking on whether many...

Poor Sleep in Pregnancy Could Lead to Problems

Poor sleep quality and quantity during pregnancy can disrupt normal immune processes and lead...

New Urine Test Could Diagnose Eye Disease

You might not think to look to a urine test to diagnose an eye...

Why Sleepy Brains Crave Doughnuts

We’re more likely to have an appetite for junk food when we’re sleep deprived...

How High Blood Sugar Throws off Heart Rhythm

Scientists have identified a biological pathway—activated by abnormally high blood sugar levels—that causes irregular...