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Nanotubes made from plants could allow delivery of DNA into cells
Researchers with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences took what some would consider garbage and made...
Immune cell defenders protect us from bacteria invasion
An international team of researchers including University of Melbourne staff has identified the exact biochemical key that awakes the body’s...
DNA fix for school timetables
Scientists in Russia plan to use DNA - our genetic material - to help them solve one of the perennial...
Bioengineer Studying How the Brain Controls Movement
University of California, San Diego research team led by bioengineer Gert Cauwenberghs is working to understand how the brain circuitry...
New insight into links among nitrogen, herbivores and plant biodiversity
Iowa – A highly collaborative approach to gathering data spearheaded by Iowa State University faculty and students has revealed new...
Bioengineering major loves the challenges posed by stem cells and symphonies
Under the microscope, they look like art: a red dapple with green crescents, deep blue and purple spots, angular green...
Erasing a genetic mutation
Researchers reverses a liver disorder in mice by correcting a mutated gene.Using a new gene-editing system based on bacterial proteins,...
Switching Brain Cells with Less Light
Networked nerve cells are the control center of organisms. In a nematode, 300 nerve cells are sufficient to initiate complex...
Synthesizing textiles from sugar
In the future, the clothes you wear could be made from sugar. Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology...
New discovery gives hope that nerves could be repaired after spinal cord injury
A new discovery suggests it could one day be possible to chemically reprogram and repair damaged nerves after spinal cord...
Japan lab says stem cell research falsified
A Japanese government-funded laboratory says it has found data in a widely heralded stem-cell research paper was falsified, holding one...
Can antibiotics cause autoimmunity?
The code for every gene includes a message at the end of it that signals the translation machinery to stop....
Scientists discover a protein in nerves that determines which brain connections stay and which go
A newborn baby, for all its cooing cuddliness, is a data acquisition machine, absorbing information to finish honing the job...
Self-healing bioengineered muscle grown in the laboratory
Bioengineers have grown living skeletal muscle that looks a lot like the real thing. It contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates...
Major breakthrough in stem cell manufacturing technology
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have developed a new substance which could simplify the manufacture of cell therapy in...
Experts create intelligent ‘plaster’ to monitor patients
Medical engineers said Sunday they had created a device the size of a plaster which can monitor patients by tracking...
Cybathlon 2016: first ‘Olympics’ for bionic athletes
Cybathlon, a Swiss-hosted Olympics for bionic athletes, will be held in October 2016.The Cybathlon is a championship for racing pilots...
Embryonic stem cells: Reprogramming in early embryos
An Oregon Health & Science University scientist has been able to make embryonic stem cells from adult mouse body cells...
Researchers identify good bacteria that protects against HIV
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston by growing vaginal skin cells outside the body and studying...
Light-Based Chip Inspired by Our Brain
In a recent paper in Nature Communications, researchers from Ghent University report on a novel paradigm to do optical information...