Brain Molecule Regulating Human Emotion, Mood
A RIKEN research team has discovered an enzyme called Rines that regulates MAO-A, a major brain protein controlling emotion and mood. The enzyme is a...
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World’s first lab-grown burger to be cooked and eaten
The world's first lab-grown burger is to be unveiled and eaten at a news conference in London on Monday. Scientists took cells from a cow...
Soft Robotic Devices Using Water-Based Gels
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating devices out of a water-based hydrogel material that can be patterned, folded...
Researchers have Fabricated a Bioartificial Ear
Researchers have fabricated a bioartificial ear that looks and mechanically behaves like a human one, as revealed in Journal of the Royal Society Interface yesterday....
Microfluidic Breakthrough in Biotechnology
Chemical flasks and inconvenient chemostats for cultivation of bacteria are likely soon to be discarded. Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish...
New teeth grown from urine
Researchers have grown rudimentary teeth out of the most unlikely of sources, human urine.The results, published in Cell Regeneration Journal, showed that urine could be...
Gold Nanofibers in Bioengineered Heart Tissue
Heart tissue sustains irreparable damage in the wake of a heart attack. Because cells in the heart cannot multiply and the cardiac muscle contains few...
False memories implanted into mice
Scientists have created a false memory in mice by manipulating neurons that bear the memory of a place. The work further demonstrates just how unreliable...
The first commercial tDCS headset that lets you safely overclock your brain
After an interminable wait, the first brain-boosting tDCS headset has finally received FCC approval and will begin shipping in the next few days. Dubbed the...
Teaching a microbe to make fuel
Genetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel A humble soil bacterium called Ralstonia eutropha has a natural...
Chips that mimic the brain
Novel microchips imitate the brain’s information processing in real time. Neuroinformatics researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich together with colleagues from the...
New 3D Hair Follicle Model to Accelerate Cure for Baldness
Hair loss is usually genetically determined but can also be the result of aging or chronic illness. It is often a distressing condition that negatively...
Controlling genes with light
Although human cells have an estimated 20,000 genes, only a fraction of those are turned on at any given time, depending on the cell’s needs...
Proteomics can improve breast cancer treatment
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a protein that could help physicians decide what type of therapy patients with hormone driven breast cancer...
Microbes can influence evolution of their hosts
You are not just yourself. You are also the thousands of microbes that you carry. In fact, they represent an invisible majority that may be...