Sensitive acid sensor controls insulin production
Researchers have developed an implantable device that precisely monitors acid build-up in the body for people with diabetes and produces...
Neurons at work
Film editors play a critical role by helping shape raw footage into a narrative. Part of the challenge is that...
Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue
Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue in the rat brain...
First gene therapy trial launched for heart patients with mechanical pumps
For the first time in the world, a patient with a mechanical heart pump is taking part in a new...
Scientists unravel mystery of brain cell growth
In the developing brain, special proteins that act like molecular tugboats push or pull on growing nerve cells, or neurons,...
Epigenetics has large say in blood formation
Blood stem cells have the potential to turn into any type of blood cell, whether it be the oxygen-carrying red...
The fastest neurons in the brain
If you ask a child which is the world's fastest animal, they may tell you anything from cheetah, falcon or...
Scientists unlock key to blood vessel formation
Scientists from the University of Leeds have discovered a gene that plays a vital role in blood vessel formation, research...
Cyborg Science: Electronics Meet Brain Signaling
No longer just fantastical fodder for sci-fi buffs, cyborg technology is bringing us tangible progress toward real-life electronic skin, prosthetics...
Stanford bioengineers create remote-controlled nanoscale protein motors
In every cell in your body, tiny protein motors are toiling away to keep you going. Moving muscles, dividing cells,...
Molecular competition drives adult stem cells to specialize
Adult organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans harbor adult stem cells, some of which renew themselves through cell division...
Breakthroughs made in ovarian cancer research
Scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and the Bioinformatics Institute (BII) have found new clues to early detection...
Dramatic growth of grafted stem cells in rat spinal cord
Building upon previous research, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veteran’s Affairs San Diego...
Implanted Neurons become Part of the Brain
Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have grafted neurons reprogrammed from skin...
Potential ‘universal’ blood test for cancer discovered
Researchers from the University of Bradford have devised a simple blood test that can be used to diagnose whether people...
Researchers eliminate HIV from cultured human cells for first time
The HIV-1 virus has proved to be tenacious, inserting its genome permanently into its victims' DNA, forcing patients to take...
Japan robot firm showcases thought-controlled suits
A Japanese robot-maker shows off suits that the wearer can control just by thinking, as it says it is linking...
8.2 percent of our DNA is ‘functional’
Only 8.2% of human DNA is likely to be doing something important – is 'functional' – say Oxford University researchers....
Combination Antiretroviral Therapy Helps Treat Hepatitis C in HIV Patients
Treatment of HIV patients co-infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) with an anti-retroviral drug therapy not only tackles HIV,...
Genetics of cancer: Non-coding DNA can finally be decoded
Cancer is a disease of the genome resulting from a combination of genetic modifications (or mutations). We inherit from our...