"This is an unprecedented finding. Previously, the best existing treatment for Alzheimer's disease in mice required several months to reduce plaque in the brain."

Three US citizens who lost their sight in childhood have reported a dramatic improvement in vision after having gene therapy in both eyes.

How a Mother's Love Changes a Child's Brain

Skin cells have been converted directly into cells which develop into the main components of the brain, by researchers studying mice in California.

When Pseudoscience Kills

Embryonic stem cells appear to restore some vision to legally blind patient

You & Yours - TODAY - 12-1 - BBC Radio 4 Is religion in the UK being eroded? And if so, is that a good or a bad thing?

Please phone in and have your say.

Online debate between Russell Blackford and American theologian/historian William Cavanaugh

Physicists Create Working Transistor
Consisting of a Single Atom

"For too long, the public sector has been used to marginalise and attack faith in public life, undermining the very foundations of the British nation. But this week, the tables have been turned."