American military researchers say they have unlocked the secret to regrowing limbs and recreating organs in humans who have sustained major injuries.
Using “nanoscaffolding,” the researchers have regrown a man’s fingertip and the internal organs of several test subjects.
The technology works by placing a very fine apparatus called a scaffold, which is made of polymer fibres [...]

Image: A zinc finger nuclease clips the CCR5 gene out of a T-cell. Courtesy Sangamo Biosciences.
Some people have a mutation that makes them amazingly resistant to HIV — and now, scientists may have found a way to give that immunity to anyone.
Viruses enter cells and take them over, but to get inside, they need a [...]

Biochemists from Louisiana in the U.S. say blood from alligators could help fight deadly ’superbugs’ and other infections.
The researchers suggest the proteins in ‘gator’ blood could provide a powerful new source of antibiotics with which to fight superbugs infections associated with diabetic ulcers and severe burns which are resistant to conventional medication.
The study which is [...]

Tired of waiting for more attention, the cat stretched, walked across the still form and up onto the table. It sniffed the shiny cylinders the man had used, and then stepped onto the machine into which the man had been speaking.
Its curiosity satisfied, the feline jumped to the ground, but in doing so, a paw [...]

New research reports posted on the American Cancer Society’s Web site late Tuesday suggest that a Florida man with no medical training may have invented a machine that could lead to a cure for cancer. “It gives me goose bumps that there might be a better way to do this and it looks like it’s [...]