Lighting a new path to understanding the ‘language’ of the brain
When President Barack Obama announced the $100 million neuroscience initiative called Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) in April,...
Growing brains in the lab
Human embryonic stem cells can be induced to spontaneously form developing brain tissue During development, the nervous system forms as...
New study shows click chemistry could provide total chemical DNA synthesis
An interdisciplinary study led by Dr Ali Tavassoli, a Reader in chemical biology at the University of Southampton, has shown...
Researchers reprogram skin cells into insulin-producing pancreas cells
A cure for type 1 diabetes has long eluded even the top experts. Not because they do not know what...
Credit card-sized device help diagnose pancreatic cancer in minutes
Pancreatic cancer is a particularly devastating disease. At least 94 percent of patients will die within five years, and in...
Tomorrow’s Pacemakers: Batteries Not Included
Researchers at the University of Arizona and the University of Illinois have developed tiny power generators that can convert the...
DARPA Publishes Huge Online Catalog of Open Source Code
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — the branch of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for developing new,...
Artificial Cell Turned Into Complex Biological Materials
It is a big dream in science: To start from scratch with simple artificial microskopic building blocks and end up...
Robots with insect-like brains
Rsearchers of Freie Universität Berlin, of the Bernstein Fokus Neuronal Basis of Learning, and of the Bernstein Center Berlin and...
How a Shape-Shifting DNA-Repair Machine Fights Cancer
Maybe you’ve seen the movies or played with toy Transformers, those shape-shifting machines that morph in response to whatever challenge...
New Heart, Liver, Kidney or Eye in under 2 hours: Bioprinting
By now nearly everyone has heard about “normal” 3-D printers, but 3D Bioprinters? It is seldom that one product, in...
Oxford science projects get £67 million in funding
The projects will help small technology companies grow and bring products to market. The fields earmarked for development under the...
Researchers discover how brain regions work together, or alone
Stanford researchers may have solved a riddle about the inner workings of the brain, which consists of billions of neurons,...
Architects of Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain
Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some have imagined that...
DNA Wires for Application in Nanoelectronics
Since continuous miniaturization in microelectronics is already starting to reach the physical limits, researchers are seeking new methods for device...
A new way to induce pluripotency
An unusual reprogramming phenomenon by which the fate of somatic cells can be drastically altered through changes to the external...
Cellular Surgeons: The New Era of Nanomedicine
Pills the size of molecules to seek and destroy tumors. Miniscule robots performing surgery inside patients with a precision never...
New ‘Bioengineered Skin’ Gets Closer to the Real Thing
Successfully tested on rats, the lab-grown product has blood and lymph vessels, scientists say People who need skin grafts because...
Puzzling Question in Bacterial Immune System Answered
A central question has been answered regarding a protein that plays an essential role in the bacterial immune system and...
Stem cell ‘major discovery’ claimed
Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now be made quickly just by dipping blood cells into acid. Stem cells...
