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Stem cell breakthrough could set up future transplant therapies
A new method for developing stem cells enables the production of liver and pancreatic cells in “clinically relevant” quantities for...
Single-Cell Genome Sequencing Gets Better
Researchers led by bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have generated the most complete genome sequences from single...
HPV Inserts Own DNA Into Human DNA
The virus that causes cervical, head and neck, anal and other cancers can damage chromosomes and genes where it inserts...
Your Brain Sees Things You Don’t, Says Study
University of Arizona doctoral degree candidate Jay Sanguinetti has authored a new study, published online in the journal Psychological Science,...
Researchers Regrow Hair, Cartilage, Bone, Soft Tissues: Enhancing Cell Metabolism Key to Tissue Repair
Young animals are known to repair their tissues effortlessly, but can this capacity be recaptured in adults? A new study...
New Artificial Legs That Emulate Healthy Limbs
Recent advances in robotics technology make it possible to create prosthetics that can duplicate the natural movement of human legs....
Researcher finds novel genetic patterns that make us rethink biology and individuality
Professor of Genetics Scott Williams, PhD, of the Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (iQBS) at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine,...
Bio-Patch That Can Regrow Bone
The bone-regeneration kit relies on a collagen platform seeded with particles containing the genes needed for producing bone. In experiments,...
Scientists Solve Major Piece in the Origin of Biological Complexity
Scientists have puzzled for centuries over how and why multicellular organisms evolved the almost universal trait of using single cells,...
Neuroelectronics Make Smarter Computer Chips
Kwabena Boahen got his first computer in 1982, when he was a teenager living in Accra. “It was a really...
The Human Connectome Project
Navigate the brain in a way that was never before possible; fly through major brain pathways, compare essential circuits, zoom...
Researchers gain new insights into brain neuronal networks
A paper published in a special edition of the journal Science proposes a novel understanding of brain architecture using a...
‘Biohacker’ Implants Chip in Arm
A self-described "biohacker" had a big electronic chip — almost as large as a deck of cards — inserted beneath...
Slowing down DNA with light
The Opto-electrical effect can be used to control the passage of DNA molecules through nanopore sensors, thereby leading to more...
Microbe Computers
Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron is one of the good guys. Known simply as Bt, it is an abundant member of the estimated...
Daydreaming simulated by computer model
Scientists have created a virtual model of the brain that daydreams like humans do. Researchers created the computer model based...
Breakthrough for Cancer Drug Delivery
Today, scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating...
The secrets of how memories can be encoded in living tissues
Tufts University biologists using new, automated training and testing techniques have found that planarian flatworms store memory outside their brains...
Bioengineered Tooth
Bioengineers have developed a new method of replacing missing teeth with a bioengineered material generated from a person's own gum...
Artificial blood made in Romania
A team of researchers of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, a city in NW Romania, has created a recipe for...