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3D-Printed Heart Could Be Beating in 10 Years
An ambitious 3D-printed heart project aims to make a natural organ replacement for patients possible within a decade. But the...
Bacteria Recycle Broken DNA
From a bacteria’s perspective the environment is one big DNA waste yard. Researchers have now shown that bacteria can take...
Researchers Find Protein That Regulates Burning of Body Fat
The uncoupling Protein 1 (UCP1) is found exclusively in brown adipose tissue. Until some years ago it was thought that...
‘Mini-Kidney’ Structures Generated from Human Stem Cells
Diseases affecting the kidneys represent a major and unsolved health issue worldwide. The kidneys rarely recover function once they are...
Protein Coding ‘Junk Genes’ May Be Linked to Cancer
By using a new analysis method, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Sweden have found...
Chaotic Physics in Ferroelectrics Hints at Brain-Like Computing
Unexpected behaviour in ferroelectric materials explored by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory supports a new...
Building ‘nanomachines’ in biological outer space
Cambridge scientists have uncovered the mechanism by which bacteria build their surface propellers (flagella) – the long extensions that allow...
Mind-Reading Robots Coming Ever Closer
If you think with the release of every new i-device the world is getting closer to thought-controlled smart tech and...
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,...
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...
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...