Stem Cell Sciences, a medical research company recently, has secured a license to a new technique for growing brain cells.

The license comes after company academic partners became the first in the world to create a pure batch of cells that could be capable of becoming tissue for the brain

A new study, published online by the British Medical Journal, suggests that the way children travel to and from school can affect their overall physical activity.

Researchers from Edinburgh University in Scotland measured physical activity levels among 92 students ages 13 and 14 from four schools in the Edinburgh area. With the use of accelerometers - an instrument used to measure vertical movement - the students were surveyed about their journey to school

Scientists in Australia's tropical north are collecting blood from crocodiles in the hope of developing a powerful antibiotic for humans, after tests showed that the reptile's immune system kills the HIV virus, Reuters reports.

The crocodile's immune system is much more powerful than that of humans, preventing life-threatening infections after savage territorial fights which often leave the animals with gaping wounds and missing limbs

A new study shows chicken pox is slowly being eliminated as more and more children - some 90 percent in the U.S. - are receiving a preventive vaccine

Houston is known as the "City of Syrup" because the abuse of codeine-fortified cough syrup among the city's youth is so widespread, a local researcher says to The Associated Press.

The reputation is reflected in a trial that begins Tuesday of six pharmacists charged with illegally dispensing the highly addictive prescription cough syrup codeine with promethazine