Scientists find Ebola virus is mutating
Researchers working at Institut Pasteur in France have found that the Ebola virus is mutating "a lot" causing concern in the African countries where the...
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Latent HIV may lurk in ‘quiet’ immune cells
Drugs for HIV have become adept at suppressing infection, but they still can’t eliminate it. That’s because the medication in these pills doesn’t touch the...
Google is using synthetic skin to help early detection for cancer
Last October, Google announced that it was working on magnetic nanoparticles that would seek out cancer cells in the bloodstream and report back to a...
Biomaterial Coating for Better Medical Implants
A novel, bacteria-repelling coating material that could increase the success of medical implants has been created by researchers. The material helps healthy cells ‘win the...
Growing functioning brain tissue in 3D
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan have succeeded in inducing human embryonic stem cells to self-organize into a three-dimensional structure similar...
Bioengineered antibody-based molecules show enhanced hiv-fighting abilities
Capitalizing on a new insight into HIV's strategy for evading antibodies—proteins produced by the immune system to identify and wipe out invading objects such as...
Healthy’ fat tissue could be key to reversing type 2 diabetes
Preventing inflammation in obese fat tissue may hold the key to preventing or even reversing type 2 diabetes, new research has found. Dr. Axel Kallies...
How are sea anemones so good at producing nerve cells?
A research group has revealed how a seemingly simple animal is able to produce nerve cells throughout its entire body. A study published in the...
Scientists find gene vital to central nervous system development
Scientists have identified a gene that helps regulate how well nerves of the central nervous system are insulated, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine...
Pacemakers with Internet connection
The healthcare sector is not escaping from the revolution in information and communications technologies. Thanks to the latest advances in microelectronics and communications technologies, it...
Brain region vulnerable to aging is larger in those with longevity gene variant
People who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with longevity also have larger volumes in a front part of the brain involved...
Stomach acid-powered micromotors get their first test in a living animal
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have shown that a micromotor fueled by stomach acid can take a bubble-powered ride inside a mouse....
From Fiction To Science
When a salamander loses a tail, it grows a new one. What’s the difference, biologist Peter Reddien wondered, between a wound that severs a salamander’s...
Neurons in the Brain Tune into Different Frequencies for Different Spatial Memory Tasks
Your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different frequencies of a rhythmic electrical...
Using stem cells to grow new hair
In a new study from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), researchers have used human pluripotent stem cells to generate new hair. The study represents the...