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What would Stuart Little make of it? Mice have been created whose brains are half human. As a result, the ...

Stimulating the brain with electricity improves working memory, mental maths,focused attention, creativity and could help treat depression. You can even ...

A tapeworm that usually infects dogs, frogs and cats has made its home inside a man's brain. Sequencing its genome ...

Breast screening in the UK is at the centre of renewed controversy after an influential group of British MPs called ...

Unborn babies can sow the seeds for rheumatoid arthritis in their mothers - and the dads might be to blame ...

The number of eggs in a woman's ovaries could tell a lot more than just how fertile she is. It ...

He died later than Socrates and Aristotle, but a man who fished along the coast of southern Africa is the closest ...

The typical red, modern tomato is about one hundred times bigger than its pea-sized wild ancestor, which originally came from ...

A joint team from Cornell University in New York and Rothamsted Research in the UK has successfully replaced a key ...

Sudden cardiac arrests kill someone every five seconds. Now the fact-finding power of Watson, IBM's Jeopardy-winning supercomputer, is being harnessed to help ...

The humble aubergine – you might call it eggplant or brinjal – may be about to unlock a food revolution ...

It was named the language gene before we really understood what it did. Now mice given the human version of ...

Dread going for a smear test? A simple urine test can pick up the human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes ...

It's one of the biggest mysteries of Alzheimer's. The disease is associated with the formation of protein plaques in the ...

If you've ever fantasised about uploading your mind to the internet, or gestating your genetically modified children in an artificial ...

Early interventions may be effective at treating the symptoms of autism in very young infants, according to a pilot study ...

Science to the rescue in West Africa? The World Health Organization is launching a crash programme to test experimental treatments ...

Babies come in all shapes and sizes – or so you might imagine. But according to new international growth charts, ...

Hold the butter! The genetic secrets of centenarians are starting to be unravelled – and they hint that low cholesterol ...

If you need a new knee, look no further than the end of your nose. It turns out that nasal ...

Severe pain? Reach for the yeast. Genetically engineered yeasts can now efficiently produce a range of opiates, including morphine and ...

Guilty as charged. Over the years, humans have often been accused of killing off our Neanderthal cousins, although climate change, stupidity and even bad ...

With food security firmly on the international agenda, there's a growing appetite to look again at the opportunities promised by ...

You could be forgiven for thinking of cancer as a genetic disease. Sure, we know it can be triggered by ...

If you can't change the science, change the scientists. This is what nine groups opposed to genetically modified organisms want ...

Synthetic biologist Hamilton Smith wants to find the smallest genome that will keep a bacterium alive – and tidy up ...

There are more than 350 types of olfactory receptors in the nose, tuned to different scents. About 150 are also ...

Red blood cells may one day do more than carry oxygen around the body – they have been genetically engineered ...