A ‘game-changer’ for HIV/AIDS
Second-year bioengineering doctoral student Sylvia Natividad-Diaz may have found a way around a persistent obstacle in the treatment of HIV/AIDS—identifying ...
Special glasses help surgeons ‘see’ cancer
High-tech glasses developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may help surgeons visualize cancer cells, which glow ...
Scientists identify gene linking brain structure to intelligence
For the first time, scientists at King’s College London have identified a gene linking the thickness of the grey matter ...
Chips that Listen to Bacteria
In a study published today in Nature Communications, a research team led by Ken Shepard, professor of electrical engineering and ...
Postdoc in Molecular Systems Biology : Munich, Germany
We invite a molecular biologist or biochemist with an interest in questions of gene regulation to join our team at ...
Researchers develop promising method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies
In 2011, biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) demonstrated a highly effective method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies to ...
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 ...
DARPA Publishes Huge Online Catalog of Open Source Code
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — the branch of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for developing new, ...
Artificial Cell Turned Into Complex Biological Materials
It is a big dream in science: To start from scratch with simple artificial microskopic building blocks and end up ...
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 ...
Oxford science projects get £67 million in funding
The projects will help small technology companies grow and bring products to market. The fields earmarked for development under the ...
