Bioengineered ears win first place at World Technology Summit
A method for bioengineering living human ears garnered a first-place award at the World Technology Summit in New York City, Nov. 15.Lawrence Bonassar, associate professor...
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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 up small as well as...
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 only babies and hibernating animals...
‘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 damaged by disease, highlighting the...
Researchers Improve Nanopore-Based Technology for Detecting DNA Molecules
If we wanted to count the number of people in a crowd, we could make on the fly estimates, very likely to be imprecise, or...
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 close to one hundred novel...
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 approach to information storage and...
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