Researchers find stem cells remember prior substrates
A team of researchers working at the University of Colorado has found that human stem cells appear to remember the physical nature of the structure...
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Bioengineered bacteria sense, remember, and report on their experience in the gut
It's a jungle in there. In the tightly woven ecosystem of the human gut, trillions of bacteria compete with each other on a daily basis...
Thermal vision
The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike...
Bionic plants
Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy producers or sensors for explosives. Imaging the fluorescence of carbon nanotubes inside leaves of an Arabidopsis plant using...
Scientists coax E. coli to resist radiation damage
Capitalizing on the ability of an organism to evolve in response to punishment from a hostile environment, scientists have coaxed the model bacterium Escherichia coli...
Human brains ‘hard-wired’ to link what we see with what we do
Your brain's ability to instantly link what you see with what you do is down to a dedicated information 'highway', suggests new UCL-led research. Credits:...
Silk-Based Bioengineering Implants
Study shows that fixation devices derived from silkworm silk are potentially attractive alternatives to metal and synthetic-based systems When a person suffers a broken bone,...