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Hamburg's announced resignation follows the agency's most productive year for personalized medicine novel new drug approvals.

Free events enables chemists to develop their understanding of the many and varied benefits of flow chemistry.

Funding for £1.6 million cord blood stem cell manufacturing project.

“Atesi” what sounds like a word from the Elven language of Lord of the Rings is actually a Vimmish word meaning "thought". Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have used Vimmish, an artificial language specifically developed for scientific research, to study how people can best memorise foreign-language terms.

For patients with brain cancer, radiation is a powerful and potentially life-saving treatment, but it can also cause considerable and even permanent injury to the brain. Now, through preclinical experiments conducted in rats, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have developed a method to turn human stem cells into cells that are instructed to repair damage in the brain.

A new Dartmouth College study sheds light on the brain cells that function in establishing one's location and direction. The findings contribute to our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying our abilities to successfully navigate our environment, which may be crucial to dealing with brain damage due to trauma or a stroke and the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Chemists at IRB Barcelona patent and present a shuttle capable of transporting molecules into the brain; this achievement could facilitate the treatment of diseases with no therapy available. The brain is protected by a barrier of cells that tightly regulates the transport of substances into this organ in order to prevent infection.

Agreement marks important milestone in delivering personalized medicine to more breast cancer patients worldwide.

A combination of two biomarkers can identify pre-clinical pancreatic cancer.

Scientists have found a genetic mechanism that could stop the spread of a "devastating" disease threatening wheat crops.