A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues, Oxford University scientists have demonstrated. The new type of material consist... Read more
Cancer patients may soon have a new tool to help determine if certain treatments will be effective in their care. British scientists have developed a new genetic test that experts say is one... Read more
In a world first, a donated human liver has been ‘kept alive’ outside a human being and then successfully transplanted into a patient in need of a new liver. So far the procedure... Read more
With a chilling hint of the not-so-distant future, researchers at the Usenix Security conference have demonstrated a zero-day vulnerability in your brain. Using a commercial off-the-shelf br... Read more
Crop losses due to fungal attack challenge food security and threaten biodiversity More than 600 million people could be fed each year by halting the spread of fungal diseases in the world... Read more
Aiming for 80% efficacy in the next four years Team of researchers at Oxford University develop new malaria vaccine, which is labelled ‘very exciting.’ A team of researche... Read more
Public-private partnership proposed to develop pharmaceuticals. The early stages of drug development could be freed from the shackles of intellectual property under a proposal to be tabled a... Read more