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The Body’s Transformers
Like the shape-shifting robots of “Transformers” fame, a unique class of proteins in the human body also has the ability...
Flexible nanosensors for wearable devices
Researchers from UPM have developed a manufacturing method of aluminum optical nanosensors on versatile substrates that can be used for...
Novel computer model designed to understand cardiovascular diseases
Researchers have developed a novel three-dimensional, multiscale and multicomponent model of endothelial cells monolayer, the inner lining of artery, to...
Scientists grow leg muscle from cells in a dish
A team of researchers from Italy, Israel and the United Kingdom has succeeded in generating mature, functional skeletal muscles in...
Magnetic Nanoparticles To Stop Strokes
By loading magnetic nanoparticles with drugs and dressing them in biochemical camouflage, Houston Methodist researchers say they can destroy blood...
Prosthetic Hand Controlled by Patient’s Mind
Three Austrian men have become the first in the world to undergo a new technique called “bionic reconstruction”, enabling them...
Nanotechnology, Genetic Interference for Tumors?
There are no effective available treatments for sufferers of Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive and devastating form of brain...
Antibiotics give rise to new communities of harmful bacteria
Most people have taken an antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection. Now researchers from the University of North Carolina at...
How brain waves guide memory formation
Our brains generate a constant hum of activity: As neurons fire, they produce brain waves that oscillate at different frequencies....
Scientists find cancer weak spots for new targeted drugs
Scientists have identified weak spots in cancer cells that could be targeted and attacked by new precision drugs. A major...
Building tailor-made DNA nanotubes step by step
Researchers have developed a new, low-cost method to build DNA nanotubes block by block – a breakthrough that could help...
Tasting light
Newly discovered taste receptors for hydrogen peroxide allow worms to indirectly detect light. Human taste receptors are specialized to distinguish...
‘Guardian’ protein of brain function
Mitochondria not only are the cell’s main power producers, they are also the chief cooks and bottle washers.When they get...
Bacteria network for food
It is well-known that bacteria can support each others’ growth and exchange nutrients. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for...
3D printed guides can help restore function in damaged nerves
Scientists at the University of Sheffield have succeeded in using a 3D printed guide to help nerves damaged in traumatic...
How a wound closes
For wounds to close, cells need to move collectively in one direction in a coordinated fashion. Until now the central...
New test to predict effectiveness of cancer vaccines
Many therapeutic cancer vaccines that are currently being developed are designed to direct the immune system against altered cancer-cell proteins....
Brain makes decisions with same method used to break WW2 Enigma code
When making simple decisions, neurons in the brain apply the same statistical trick used by Alan Turing to help break...
New catalyst to create chemical building blocks from biomass
University of Tokyo researchers have developed a novel selective catalyst that allows the creation of several basic chemicals from biomass...
Wisdom teeth stem cells can transform into cells that could treat corneal scarring
Stem cells from the dental pulp of wisdom teeth can be coaxed to turn into cells of the eye's cornea...