Building Replacement Kidneys in the Lab
Regenerative medicine researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have addressed a major challenge in the quest to build replacement kidneys in the lab. Working...
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Nuclear waste eaters
Although bacteria with waste-eating properties have been discovered in relatively pristine soils before, this is the first time that microbes that can survive in the...
Cell Smashes and Rebuilds Its Own Genome
Life can be so intricate and novel that even a single cell can pack a few surprises, according to a study led by Princeton University...
How the brain finds what it’s looking for
Despite the barrage of visual information the brain receives, it retains a remarkable ability to focus on important and relevant items. This fall, for example,...
Synthetic messenger boosts immune system
Specific immune cells, known as T lymphocytes, have to be activated so that the body can develop long-term protection against infections. Previously, it was believed...
Artificial cells take their first steps: Movable cytoskeleton membrane fabricated for first time
Using only a few ingredients, the biophysicist Prof. Andreas Bausch and his team at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have successfully implemented a minimalistic model...
Scientists call for investigation of mysterious cloud-like collections in cells
About 50 years ago, electron microscopy revealed the presence of tiny blob-like structures that form inside cells, move around and disappear. But scientists still don't...
Memory in silent neurons
According to a generally-accepted model of synaptic plasticity, a neuron that communicates with others of the same kind emits an electrical impulse as well as...
A new way to diagnose malaria
Using magnetic fields, technique can detect parasite’s waste products in infected blood cells. Red blood cells from a patient infected with Plasmodium falciparum. Photo Credit:...
Neurons in human skin perform advanced calculations
Neurons in human skin perform advanced calculations, previously believed that only the brain could perform. This is according to a study from Umeå University in...
HIV hides in gut, evading eradication
Researchers at UC Davis have made some surprising discoveries about the body’s initial responses to HIV infection. Studying simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), the team found...
‘Robo Brain’ – Robots Devouring Internet Info
Robo Brain – a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources – is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000...
Modeling How Neurons Work May Inform Robotics
A highly accurate model of how neurons behave when performing complex movements could aid in the design of robotic limbs which behave more realistically. Multiphoton...
Tumor weaknesses in epigenetics
Scientists have known for decades that cancer can be caused by genetic mutations, but more recently they have discovered that chemical modifications of a gene...
HIV antibodies block infection by reservoir-derived virus
A laboratory study led by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), lends further...