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Cancer cells use body’s wound-healing mechanism to spread
Metastasis, the spread of cancer cells from a primary tumour to different organs, is responsible for more than 90% of...
Cochlear implants — with no exterior hardware
A cochlear implant that can be wirelessly recharged would use the natural microphone of the middle ear rather than a...
Lighting a new path to understanding the ‘language’ of the brain
When President Barack Obama announced the $100 million neuroscience initiative called Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) in April,...
Growing brains in the lab
Human embryonic stem cells can be induced to spontaneously form developing brain tissue During development, the nervous system forms as...
New study shows click chemistry could provide total chemical DNA synthesis
An interdisciplinary study led by Dr Ali Tavassoli, a Reader in chemical biology at the University of Southampton, has shown...
Researchers reprogram skin cells into insulin-producing pancreas cells
A cure for type 1 diabetes has long eluded even the top experts. Not because they do not know what...
Credit card-sized device help diagnose pancreatic cancer in minutes
Pancreatic cancer is a particularly devastating disease. At least 94 percent of patients will die within five years, and in...
Tomorrow’s Pacemakers: Batteries Not Included
Researchers at the University of Arizona and the University of Illinois have developed tiny power generators that can convert the...
Robots with insect-like brains
Rsearchers of Freie Universität Berlin, of the Bernstein Fokus Neuronal Basis of Learning, and of the Bernstein Center Berlin and...
How a Shape-Shifting DNA-Repair Machine Fights Cancer
Maybe you’ve seen the movies or played with toy Transformers, those shape-shifting machines that morph in response to whatever challenge...
New Heart, Liver, Kidney or Eye in under 2 hours: Bioprinting
By now nearly everyone has heard about “normal” 3-D printers, but 3D Bioprinters? It is seldom that one product, in...
Architects of Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain
Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some have imagined that...
DNA Wires for Application in Nanoelectronics
Since continuous miniaturization in microelectronics is already starting to reach the physical limits, researchers are seeking new methods for device...
A new way to induce pluripotency
An unusual reprogramming phenomenon by which the fate of somatic cells can be drastically altered through changes to the external...