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A new study has found that expressive language sampling is a useful tool for measuring communication development in youth with Down syndrome.

Scientists have manufactured heart cells, brain cells and other cell types using stem cells and they are now transplanting the cells into patients. A new paper explains the future ethical implications of this research with regards to brain organoids, a laboratory-made structure that is designed to grow and behave like the brain.

Researchers have discovered a formulation of existing medicines that can significantly reduce the presence of the fungus Candida auris on skin, controlling its spread and potentially keeping it from forming infections that have a high mortality rate.

An opioid that exclusively targets diseased tissues and spares healthy tissues has been shown to relieves pain from inflammatory bowel disease without causing side effects, in mouse studies.

A new paper explains the future ethical implications of research into brain organoids, a laboratory-made structure that is designed to grow and behave like the brain.

Scientists could be a step closer to finding a way to reduce the impact of traumatic memories. A new study suggests that procedures used by clinicians to indirectly reactivate traumatic memories render a window whereby those memories can be altered, or even erased completely.

Scientists have reported the full assembly of human chromosome 8. While on the outside this chromosome looks typical, being neither short nor long or distinctive, its DNA content and arrangement are of interest in primate and human evolution, in several immune and developmental disorders, and in chromosome sequencing structure and function generally.

Researchers found that one of most needed resources of "jumping genes" may also be their greatest vulnerability.

Powerful algorithms used by the likes of Netflix and Facebook can "predict" the biological language of cancer, Alzheimer's, and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Researchers describe how two small ESX proteins made by the M. tuberculosis bacteria mediate the secretion of tuberculosis necrotizing toxin by pore formation in the membranes that envelop the bacteria.