Medicine News Stories

News articles about medicine, physiology, pathology, microbiology, drugs, food, neuroscience and psychology...

25 September 2015

A new form of 3D-printing that can turn out replicas of a patient's organs has been developed by scientists in the...

25 September 2015

A man paralysed has been able to walk again thanks to a new brain-muscle interface device developed by scientists in...

24 September 2015

Some bats use a special conveyor belt-like tongue to extract nactar from flowers

24 September 2015

Sitting has been deemed the new smoking, but is fidgeting now the new standing?

24 September 2015

A technique to selectively deactivate pain pathways from specific parts of the body has been developed by scientists in...

11 September 2015

Antibacterial vegetables capable of blitzing dangerous E. coli infections have been bred by scientists in Germany.

11 September 2015

A cave crammed with fossil remains of a previously undiscovered human ancestor suggests that these primitive people...

10 September 2015

A blood test can be used to detect a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer's...

21 August 2015

Scientists thought language was processed in one side of the brain, until they studied whistled languages…

13 August 2015

A colour changing polymer may soon be used to indicate head injuries. This is important for both military and...

07 August 2015

A chemical signal that triggers regeneration of tissues has been revealed...

31 July 2015

The microbes living in the intestine can contribute to the symptoms of anxiety and depression, a new study has revealed...

31 July 2015

早产与社会撤回personality, resulting in adults who are more neurotic, anxious and...

28 July 2015

A landmark study showed that de-working Kenyan children boosted school attendance. Now a second look is shedding doubt...

24 July 2015

An eyedrop formulation can reverse cataracts in days, a new study has revealed.

23 July 2015

A new test matches up a person’s personality traits of empathy and systemizing with the music that they like to listen...

23 July 2015

Regularly drinking sugary drinks can increase your risk of type 2 diabetes by up to 20%.

20 July 2015

Rather than pitch or volume, it appears that the roughness of a scream is what grabs our attention...

17 July 2015

A large study from the US shows a strong link between being a funeral director and the risk of developing motorneurone...

17 July 2015

人类的尖叫声利用一组独特的保留frequencies that cause the brain to interpret them as urgent, chilling...

17 July 2015

Balls of brain tissue grown using stem cells from patients with autism are helping to shed light on the cause of the...

16 July 2015

Mexican cave fish adapted to cycles of starvation and binge- eating have gene changes identical to some obese humans.

10 July 2015

What makes brains age, and a way to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, has been uncovered by US...

10 July 2015

A genetic tendency to overactivity in certain brain regions has been shown to cause anxiety and depression in up to...