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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...
An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings
A new nerve interface can simulate a sense of touch from 20 spots on a prosthetic hand. There have been...
Skin Communicates With the Liver
Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have discovered that the skin is capable of communicating with the liver. The...
Surviving Ovarian Cancer: Rutgers Scientists Attack Drug Resistant Cancer Cells
Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a targeted drug delivery system that they believe could make ovarian cancer more treatable...
Synthetic RNAs designed to fight cancer
In search of better cancer treatments, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have designed synthetic molecules...
Research Identifies Promising Tool for Cardiac Stem Cell Grafting
New research by University of Vermont Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Jeffrey Spees, and colleagues has identified a new tool...
Neural Workaround Makes for More Practical Bionic Limbs
The secret to building brain-controlled prostheses may be to ignore the brain entirely.In the past several years scientists have delivered...
‘Designer Sperm’ Inserts Custom Genes Into Offspring
Get ready: The "new genetics" promises to change faulty genes of future generations by introducing new, functioning genes using "designer...
‘Bio-pen’ will allow surgeons to draw new bone inside patients
A hand-held ''bio pen'' developed in Wollongong will allow surgeons to draw regenerating bone material directly on to the body....
Estrogen: Not Just Produced by Ovaries
A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team reports today that the brain can produce and release estrogen -- a discovery that...