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Cell therapy, which is already being used in experiments against several forms of tumors, could also be used in the near future to treat Crohn’s disease.

Researchers from the MIT of Boston have been inspired by the biological mechanisms of the pufferfish to create a certain type of pill for diagnostic and curative purposes.

The female brain ages slower than the male brain of the same age by approximately three years.

Researchers from the University of Würzburg and Bielefeld (Germany) have discovered a “family” of light-sensitive molecules (photoreceptors) never seen before in algae, in both unicellular algae [...]

Several essential oils of aromatic plants can also contribute significantly to fighting one of the most insidious infections of recent years: Lyme disease.

Solar nano-panels added to the surface of yeast, so that these single-cell microorganisms are more efficient at synthesizing the substances then used by the pharmaceutical industries to produce drugs.

Inspired by the ancient Japanese art of origami of folding paper into miniature shapes and figures, bioengineers in Lowell, University del Massachusetts (USA), under the guidance of Gulden Camci [...]

A miniature medicine factory, but potentially also of many other chemical compounds, in the form of a leaf, created at minimal cost and powered by sunlight, seems too good to be true. [...]

An about-face: livers to be transplanted should not be kept cold, as has been done for many years, but warm, at a temperature of 37 degrees. The damage which is done by keeping the organ at a [...]

Congenital deformities of the spine, like idiopathic scoliosis and pathologic kyphosis, will be able to be corrected in a personalized and more efficient way thanks to a flexible robotic [...]