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Cheap diamond-based sensors are set to make it possible for most hospitals to diagnose heart disease and brain conditions using magnetic fields.

Bacteria riding on an incoming meteorite may be able to survive the violent shockwave created when it crash-lands on a planet. Their cell walls have been seen to rapidly harden and relax after a sudden shock compression, enabling them to bounce back even after an extreme collision.

A type of eye drop has been developed that could potentially revolutionize the treatment of one of the leading causes of blindness, age-related macular degeneration.

The diabetic volunteer continued to produce insulin one year after she received a transplant of abdominal islet cells.

The loss of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN has been linked to tumor growth and chemotherapy resistance in the almost invariably lethal brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Now, Ludwig researchers have shown that one way to override the growth-promoting effects of PTEN deletion is, surprisingly, to inhibit a separate tumor suppressor gene.

Jensen Huang predicts that health care and autos are going to be transformed by artificial intelligence.

China's first national laboratory for brain-like artificial intelligence (AI) technology was inaugurated Saturday in Hefei, capital of East China's Anhui province, to pool the country's top research talent and boost the technology.

The future economy relies on humans being able to keep up with machines

A new technology can monitor and maintain the level of drug in the bloodstream of animals. If it works in people, it could deliver the optimal dose of life-saving drugs and prevent harmful over- or underdosing.

Researchers have mended damaged hearts with patch packed with healthy cells. The therapy could be a ‘promising’ long-term solution for heart failure treatment. The condition currently affects around 900,000 people in the UK