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Rise of the human exoskeletons
Engineers in Italy have developed a wearable robot which they claim is the most sophisticated built in the world to...
Study finds less cooperation among women than among men where hierarchy is involved
It's long been a popular stereotype: Men are hugely competitive, meaning cooperative effort is the exception rather than the norm,...
A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA
In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they...
Imaging dynamics of small biomolecules inside live cells
Columbia researchers develop a general optical imaging platform to examine activities of a broad range of small biomolecules in living...
Building Artificial Cells Will Be a Noisy Business
Engineers like to make things that work. And if one wants to make something work using nanoscale components—the size of...
Revolutionary membrane can keep your heart beating perfectly forever
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new device that...
World’s First ‘Bionic’ Dog
Bionic dog can walk again after being fitted with prosthetics Naki’o, a mixed breed dog from Nebraska, has become the...
Building a 3D model of ovarian cancer
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, a €2.43million grant...
FDA to study “three-parent embryos”
On February 25 and 26 the US Food and Drug Administration discussed the possibility of legalising three-parent embryos – or,...
It slices, it dices, and it protects the body from harm
Researchers at Princeton University have discovered the 3D structure of an enzyme that cuts to ribbons the genetic material of...
Watching how the brain works
There are more than a trillion cells called neurons that form a labyrinth of connections in our brains. Each of...
Self-repairing running shoes 3D-printed from biological cells
London designer and researcher Shamees Aden is developing a concept for running shoes that would be 3D-printed from synthetic biological...
IBM is bringing Watson to your smartphone
IBM’s Watson is one of the smartest computer systems on the planet: its advanced artificial intelligence can answer natural language...
Lab-grown human heart cells could mean fewer animals used in research
Scientists at Imperial College London are aiming to cut the need to use animals in research by improving methods for...
Artificial muscles do the twist
In 3D, healthy hearts do their own version of the twist. Rather than a simple pumping action, they circulate blood...
Faster wound healing from bioengineered growth factors
Scientists at EPFL have greatly improved the effectiveness of growth factors, paving new strategies for regenerative medicine. When we are...
Stanford researchers identify cellular elastic that keeps nerves resilient
A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists has found the secret to how nerves withstand the wear and tear of bending...
Researchers generate new neurons in brains, spinal cords of living adult mammals
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the...
Magnetic medicine: Nanoparticles and magnetic fields train immune cells to fight cancer in mice
Using tiny particles designed to target cancer-fighting immune cells, Johns Hopkins researchers have trained the immune systems of mice to...
Mini-livers show promise to reduce animal use in science
Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s...
