Neurons at work
Film editors play a critical role by helping shape raw footage into a narrative. Part of the challenge is that their work can have a...
NEWS INDEX
Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue
Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue in the rat brain and that can be kept...
First gene therapy trial launched for heart patients with mechanical pumps
For the first time in the world, a patient with a mechanical heart pump is taking part in a new gene therapy trial for heart...
Scientists unravel mystery of brain cell growth
In the developing brain, special proteins that act like molecular tugboats push or pull on growing nerve cells, or neurons, helping them navigate to their...
Epigenetics has large say in blood formation
Blood stem cells have the potential to turn into any type of blood cell, whether it be the oxygen-carrying red blood cells, or the many...
The fastest neurons in the brain
If you ask a child which is the world's fastest animal, they may tell you anything from cheetah, falcon or swift, to sailfish. If you...
Scientists unlock key to blood vessel formation
Scientists from the University of Leeds have discovered a gene that plays a vital role in blood vessel formation, research which adds to our knowledge...
Cyborg Science: Electronics Meet Brain Signaling
No longer just fantastical fodder for sci-fi buffs, cyborg technology is bringing us tangible progress toward real-life electronic skin, prosthetics and ultraflexible circuits. Now taking...
Stanford bioengineers create remote-controlled nanoscale protein motors
In every cell in your body, tiny protein motors are toiling away to keep you going. Moving muscles, dividing cells, twisting DNA – they are...
Molecular competition drives adult stem cells to specialize
Adult organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans harbor adult stem cells, some of which renew themselves through cell division while others differentiate into the...
Breakthroughs made in ovarian cancer research
Scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and the Bioinformatics Institute (BII) have found new clues to early detection and personalised treatment of ovarian...
Dramatic growth of grafted stem cells in rat spinal cord
Building upon previous research, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veteran’s Affairs San Diego Healthcare System report that neurons...
Implanted Neurons become Part of the Brain
Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have grafted neurons reprogrammed from skin cells into the brains of...
Potential ‘universal’ blood test for cancer discovered
Researchers from the University of Bradford have devised a simple blood test that can be used to diagnose whether people have cancer or not. The...
Researchers eliminate HIV from cultured human cells for first time
The HIV-1 virus has proved to be tenacious, inserting its genome permanently into its victims' DNA, forcing patients to take a lifelong drug regimen to...
