Mini-neural computer in the brain
When you look at the hands of a clock or the streets on a map, your brain is effortlessly performing computations that tell you about...
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Need Different Types of Tissue? Just Print Them!
What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply printing out tissue and organs....
Bioinformatics Breakthrough: High Quality Transcriptome from as Few as Fifty Cells
Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of 50 to 100 cells. The...
Why Engineers Want To Put B Vitamins In 3-D Printers
In medicine, the printers are already making prosthetic hands, hearing aid cases and parts of human ears. This riboflavin-rich material can be used to print...
Natural Compound Can Be Used for 3-D Printing of Medical Implants
Bioengineers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered that a naturally-occurring compound can...
Programming DNA for Molecular Robots
Embracing the idea that molecules can be programmed much like a computer, researchers can now perform remarkable feats on a very small scale. New Caltech...
Light as Medicine? Researchers Explain How
Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes progressive paralysis by destroying nerve cells and the spinal cord. It interrupts vision, balance and even thinking. On a suggestion from...
Embryonic-Like Stem Cells Created from Mature Cells
Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells back to a pluripotent stage,...
Critical Tool for Brain Research Derived from Basic Science of Single Celled Algae
The poster child for basic research might well be a one-celled green algae found in ordinary lakes and ponds. Amazingly, this unassuming creature--called Chlamydomonas--is helping...
Researchers Advance Toward Engineering ‘Wildly New Genome’
In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits of genetic reprogramming and open...
Amputees May Feel Touches with Limbs Linked to Brain
Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the hand, we would have trouble...
Method of Recording Brain Activity Could Lead to Mind-Reading Devices
A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when they use numbers -- or...
Researcher develops new medicine that attacks HIV before it integrates with human DNA
Thirty-four million people are living with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, worldwide and each year some 2.5 million more are infected, according to the World...
Tracking viral DNA in the cell
The medical, humanitarian and economical impact of viral diseases is devastating to humans and livestock. There are no adequate therapies available against most viral diseases,...
