The slime coating frog bodies could hold the key to fighting infections, healings wounds and even curing cancer ...

Skin cells growing in a petri dish (green: cytoskeleton, red: cell-cell junction protein). Use of images is limited to editorial coverage of scientific topics relating to the activities of the Max ...

A new method could push research into developmental brain disorders an important step forward. This is shown by a recent study in which the researchers investigated the development of a rare ...

From shampoo that can make your hair straighter to sunscreen that better protects your skin, Arcaea is imagining beauty products in a whole new way. Making beauty products can be an ugly business; ...

Antiseptics are applied to the skin and mucous membranes to help prevent infection. Disinfectants are chemicals that destroy germs on non-living objects such as lab benches. Antibiotics are drugs that ...

The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity and, of course, for ethical reasons, it is extremely difficult to do scientific experiments on it - ones that could help us to ...

Check out this highly original light fixture developed by MADLAB called Bacterioptica. Its spaghetti-like structure consists of over 15,000 feet (4,572 meters) of fiber optic cables that are attached ...