A common ingredient used to make plastics such as baby bottles causes birth defects in mice — defects that could also occur in people, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

They urged more research into the potential effects of bisphenol A, a chemical long criticized by environmentalists as being a hormone disruptor that could cause defects in […]

Microscopic wires which could help form the miniature technology of the future have been constructed using the basic building blocks of living things.
The human body is one of the ultimate examples of a self-assembly machine, with every part a complex arrangement of intricately-folded proteins.

Experts in nanotechnology, who are trying to come up with ways […]

Genetically modifying a patient’s white blood cells turns them into potent cancer killers, UK researchers have revealed.

The team modified T-cells - the immune system’s first line of defence - enabling them hunt out and destroy cancer cells in test tube experiments. Both the cell types were taken from patients with advanced bowel cancer.

The technique had […]

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