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 a flat sheet called the...
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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 for the first time that...
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 must be done—but because the...
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 2013 it was ranked as...
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 motion of a beating heart...
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, cutting-edge technologies for the military...
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 with something much more complex:...
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 have developed a robot that...
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 they face.It turns out that...
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 and of itself, says so...
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 scheme are advanced manufacturing, biomedical...
Researchers discover how brain regions work together, or alone
Stanford researchers may have solved a riddle about the inner workings of the brain, which consists of billions of neurons, organized into many different regions,...
Architects of Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain
Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some have imagined that with sufficiently robust memory, processing...
DNA Wires for Application in Nanoelectronics
Since continuous miniaturization in microelectronics is already starting to reach the physical limits, researchers are seeking new methods for device fabrication. One promising candidate is...
A new way to induce pluripotency
An unusual reprogramming phenomenon by which the fate of somatic cells can be drastically altered through changes to the external environment is described in two...