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Organic electronics could lead to cheap, wearable medical sensors
Future fitness trackers could soon add blood-oxygen levels to the list of vital signs measured with new technology developed by...
Worms’ mental GPS helps them find food
You’ve misplaced your cell phone. You start by scanning where you remember leaving it: on your bureau. You check and...
Research reveals structure of key CRISPR complex
Researchers from MIT and the Broad Institute have teamed up with colleagues from the University of Tokyo to form the...
Meniscus regenerated with 3-D printed implant
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have devised a way to replace the knee's protective lining, called the meniscus, using a...
A step toward cracking the code of how brains work
Paying Attention Makes Touch-Sensing Brain Cells Fire Rapidly and in Sync. Whether we’re paying attention to something we see can...
A pill for obesity? – Stem cell scientists convert white fat to brown fat
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have taken what they describe as “the first step toward a pill that can...
Turning biological cells to stone improves cancer and stem cell research
Changing flesh to stone sounds like the work of a witch in a fairy tale. But a new technique to...
Many memories, many rooms
Researchers have long wondered if there is an upper limit to our capacity to store memories and how we manage...
Optogenetics: Identifying new targets for intervention
Optogenetics is one of the hottest tools in biomedical research today, a method that uses gene therapy to deliver light-sensitive...
Injectable 3D vaccines could fight cancer and infectious diseases
New findings show programmable biomaterials can be delivered using needle injection to induce an immune response and fight deadly diseases....
How to look inside the brain
There have been remarkable advances in understanding the brain, but how do you actually study the neurons inside it? Using...
Scientists pinpoint a new line of defence used by cancer cells
Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered a new line of defence used by cancer cells to evade cell death, according...
Cell division induces tissue ordering
Nature's ingenious systems: A layer of cells called endothelial cells lines the interior of blood vessels. When blood flows through...
Computers that teach by example
New system enables pattern-recognition systems to convey what they learn to humans. Julie Shah (left) and Been Kim Photo Credit:...
This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly
Forget stitches — there's a better way to close wounds. In this talk, TED Fellow Joe Landolina talks about his...
Dopamine helps with math rules as well as mood
The chemical messenger dopamine – otherwise known as the happiness hormone – is important not only for motivation and motor...
Robot Control Theory Improves Prosthetic Legs
A University of Texas at Dallas professor applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to dynamically respond to the...
3-D printed heart could reduce heart surgeries in children
New 3D printed heart technology could reduce the number of heart surgeries in children with congenital heart disease, according to...
The smart mouse with the half-human brain
What would Stuart Little make of it? Mice have been created whose brains are half human. As a result, the...
Neural 3-D compass discovered in mammalian brain
Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable...