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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...
Pinwheel ‘living’ crystals and the origin of life
Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call 'living rotating crystals' that...
Biochips for better cancer therapy
Cancer is the second leading cause of disease-related death in the United States, and may overtake heart disease without aggressive...
New Technology Reveals Secrets of Cellular Memory
Cells in our body are constantly dividing to maintain our body functions. At each division, our DNA code and a...
A paper diagnostic for cancer
Low-cost urine test developed by MIT engineers amplifies signals from growing tumors to detect disease. Cancer rates in developing nations...
3-D printer creates transformative device for heart treatment
Using an inexpensive 3-D printer, biomedical engineers have developed a custom-fitted, implantable device with embedded sensors that could transform treatment...
New Biological Scaffold for Stem Cells
Our cells don't live in a vacuum. They are surrounded by a complex, nurturing matrix that is essential for many...
Brain signals move paralyzed limbs in new experiment
To help people suffering paralysis from injury, stroke or disease, scientists have invented brain-machine interfaces that record electrical signals of...
Supercomputer dramatically accelerates rapid genome analysis
Although the time and cost of sequencing an entire human genome has plummeted, analyzing the resulting three billion base pairs...
Immune cells regulate blood stem cells
Researchers in Bern have discovered that, during a viral infection, immune cells control the blood stem cells in the bone...
Molecular ‘cocktail’ transforms skin cells into beating heart cells
The power of regenerative medicine appears to have turned science fiction into scientific reality—by allowing scientists to transform skin cells...
Sound-sensing cells regenerated in ears of mice
One of the major causes of hearing loss in mammals is damage to the sound-sensing hair cells in the inner...
An Essential Step toward Printing Living Tissues
A new bioprinting method developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard School...
Researchers Create Powerful Muscles From Fishing Line
An international team led by The University of Texas at Dallas has discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread...
A Circuit for Change
To answer the seemingly simple question "Have I been here before?" we must use our memories of previous experiences to...
HIV Drug Used to Reverse Effects of Virus That Causes Cervical Cancer
A commonly-used HIV drug has been shown to kill-off the human papilloma virus (HPV) that leads to cervical cancer in...
Single Chip Device to Provide Real-Time 3-D Images from Inside the Heart, Blood Vessels
Researchers have developed the technology for a catheter-based device that would provide forward-looking, real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside the heart,...