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T-Cell Research Sheds Light On Why HIV Can Persist Despite Treatment
Ryan Zurakowski, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, is co-author of a paper appearing...
Researchers Develop Bioengineered Bone Marrow
Artificial bone marrow may be used to reproduce hematopoietic stem cells. A prototype has now been developed by scientists of...
Bio-Inspired Glue Keeps Hearts Securely Sealed
The waterproof, light-activated glue developed by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Protein motors to create novel nanomachines
Inside our cells, proteins known as myosins can act as a delivery service for biological materials. To better understand how...
Odor receptors discovered in lungs
Your nose is not the only organ in your body that can sense cigarette smoke wafting through the air. Scientists...
Researcher turns sights on prostate cancer, tissue engineering, blood vessel repair
When biology and materials science converge, the results can be new materials that can be used to deliver targeted drugs,...
Epigenetics enigma resolved
Scientists have obtained the first detailed molecular structure of a member of the Tet family of enzymes.The finding is important...
DNA Clamp to Grab Cancer Before It Develops
As part of an international research project, a team of researchers has developed a DNA clamp that can detect mutations...
The Origin of Flowers
The newly sequenced genome of the Amborella plant addresses Darwin's "abominable mystery" -- the question of why flowers suddenly proliferated...
Researcher to Grow Human Stem Cells in Space
Abba Zubair, M.D., Ph.D, believes that cells grown in the International Space Station (ISS) could help patients recover from a...
DNA motor ‘walks’ along nanotube, transports tiny particle
Researchers have created a new type of molecular motor made of DNA and demonstrated its potential by using it to...
First Drug to Target Important Cancer Gene
In the field of drug design, the protein K-Ras is legendary. It’s been on everyone’s “target” list for more than...
Bioengineers Make Strides Toward Artificial Cartilage
A Duke research team has developed a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints, according to a report from...
Liquid to gel to bone
Rice University bioengineers have developed a hydrogel scaffold for craniofacial bone tissue regeneration that starts as a liquid, solidifies into...
Bioengineering a New Brain
BIOENGINEERS dream of growing spare parts for our worn-out or diseased bodies. They have already succeeded with some tissues, but...
Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code
Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the...
Dynamic Model of Tissue Failure
The idea of growing replacement tissue to repair an organ, or to swap it out for an entirely new one,...
Neural Prosthesis Restores Behavior After Brain Injury
Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior -- in this case, the...
Biochemical mechanisms of memory
A discovery by a research team led by Ryohei Yasuda at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience has significantly...
An artificial heart containing miniaturised space technology will soon beat inside a person
An artificial heart containing miniaturised space technology will soon beat inside a person, having now been approved for human trials...