Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest. And it takes a lot of time and patience.

Researchers at UC San Francisco have now developed a way to reprogram these cancer-fighting cells directly inside the body. This new method could remove the need for external manufacturing, ...

Animal studies often fail to predict human tissue responses to new drugs or newly developed therapies. Besides generating ...

A simulated cell in the early stages of division. Left half shows membrane (green cubes), and ribosomes (yellow/purple) ...

A cluster of lab-grown human brain cells has apparently made the leap to successfully playing a very rudimentary video game without the benefit of eyes, ears, or any kind of sensory input. It's a far ...

Back in 1907, American biologist Henry Van Peters Wilson discovered that sponges will re-form into living creatures after their cells are broken apart through a fine mesh screen — demonstrating that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As soon as this summer, Norton Healthcare may become one of 11 sites that offers a life-changing treatment for chronic ...

Norton Healthcare is opening a new islet cell lab to treat chronic pancreatitis and research a cure for Type 1 diabetes. The first phase will treat pancreatitis by transplanting a patient's own islet ...

Generally, someone may receive a patent for any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. However, for over 75 years, courts have made a judicial exception to this rule ...

The development of battery materials at the University of Eastern Finland began more than a decade ago with research on anode and cathode materials. Now, with the new Battery Research Laboratory at ...

A study led by Maria Carmo-Fonseca at GIMM has helped clarify one of the main limitations of lab-grown heart cells, which are widely used around the world to study heart disease and test new drugs.

A study led by Maria Carmo-Fonseca at GIMM has helped clarify one of the main limitations of lab-grown heart cells, which are widely used around the world to study heart disease and test new drugs.