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Biobridge: Research Reveals Stem Cells Help Repair Traumatic Brain Injury
University of South Florida researchers have suggested a new view of how stem cells may help repair the brain following...
Neural stem cells pulled from rat’s brain using magnet
It's like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Researchers have reached inside the brain of a rat and pulled...
Scientists Regenerate Fully Functional Bioengineered Saliva and Tear Glands
A research group headed by Professor Takashi Tsuji of Tokyo University of Science have successfully regenerated fully functional bioengineered salivary...
Identification of an Enzyme’s Function
Scientists have sequenced the genomes of nearly 6,900 organisms, but they know the functions of only about half of the...
Scientists Develop New Process to Create Artificial Cell Membranes
The membranes surrounding and inside cells are involved in every aspect of biological function. They separate the cell's various metabolic...
Better Protein Creation
Naked mole rats have what any animal would want. They live long lives -- about 30 years -- and stay...
Human-on-a-chip technology
Army scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) and academic collaborators are conducting research on organoids (small swatches of...
Biongineers Invent Programming Language to Build Synthetic DNA
Similar to using Python or Java to write code for a computer, chemists soon could be able to use a...
Accelerator on a Chip
In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons...
Novel Technology to Produce Gasoline by a Metabolically-Engineered Microorganism
Scientists succeeded in producing 580 mg of gasoline per litre of cultured broth by converting in vivo generated fatty acid....
Hidden Genetic Code for Better Designer Genes
Scientists routinely seek to reprogram bacteria to produce proteins for drugs, biofuels and more, but they have struggled to get...
Brain May Rely On Computer-Like Mechanism
Our brains give us the remarkable ability to make sense of situations we've never encountered before -- a familiar person...
Catalyst Splits DNA Molecule for First Time
Chemists from Nijmegen have developed a catalyst that binds to DNA, slides over it and splits the molecule in particular...
Researchers erase human brain tumor cells in mice
Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that weeks of treatment with a repurposed FDA-approved drug halted the growth...
Bioengineers Create Smartphone ‘Microscope’ That Can Detect a Single Virus, Nanoparticles
Your smartphone now can see what the naked eye cannot: A single virus and bits of material less than one-thousandth...
Facebook using artificial intelligence to predict your likes
A new research group within Facebook is working on an emerging and powerful approach to artificial intelligence known as deep...
Scientists closer to universal flu vaccine
Scientists have moved closer to developing a universal flu vaccine after using the 2009 pandemic as a natural experiment to...
Study Explores Barriers to HIV Vaccine Response
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) discovered that an antibody that binds and neutralizes HIV likely also targets the...
Researchers envision switching a heart beat on and off with light
With a few flicks of a light switch--on-off-on-off--Stanford University's Oscar Abilez is one step closer to changing the lives of...
Stem Cell Reprogramming Made Easier
Weizmann Institute scientists show that removing one protein from adult cells enables them to efficiently turn back the clock to...
