Pinwheel ‘living’ crystals and the origin of life
Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call 'living rotating crystals' that could serve as a nanopump....
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Biochips for better cancer therapy
Cancer is the second leading cause of disease-related death in the United States, and may overtake heart disease without aggressive new therapies. One promising area...
New Technology Reveals Secrets of Cellular Memory
Cells in our body are constantly dividing to maintain our body functions. At each division, our DNA code and a whole machinery of supporting components...
A paper diagnostic for cancer
Low-cost urine test developed by MIT engineers amplifies signals from growing tumors to detect disease. Cancer rates in developing nations have climbed sharply in recent...
3-D printer creates transformative device for heart treatment
Using an inexpensive 3-D printer, biomedical engineers have developed a custom-fitted, implantable device with embedded sensors that could transform treatment and prediction of cardiac disorders....
New Biological Scaffold for Stem Cells
Our cells don't live in a vacuum. They are surrounded by a complex, nurturing matrix that is essential for many biological functions, including growth and...
Brain signals move paralyzed limbs in new experiment
To help people suffering paralysis from injury, stroke or disease, scientists have invented brain-machine interfaces that record electrical signals of neurons in the brain and...
Supercomputer dramatically accelerates rapid genome analysis
Although the time and cost of sequencing an entire human genome has plummeted, analyzing the resulting three billion base pairs of genetic information from a...
Immune cells regulate blood stem cells
Researchers in Bern have discovered that, during a viral infection, immune cells control the blood stem cells in the bone marrow and therefore also the...
Molecular ‘cocktail’ transforms skin cells into beating heart cells
The power of regenerative medicine appears to have turned science fiction into scientific reality—by allowing scientists to transform skin cells into cells that closely resemble...
Sound-sensing cells regenerated in ears of mice
One of the major causes of hearing loss in mammals is damage to the sound-sensing hair cells in the inner ear. For years, scientists have...
An Essential Step toward Printing Living Tissues
A new bioprinting method developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
Researchers Create Powerful Muscles From Fishing Line
An international team led by The University of Texas at Dallas has discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to...
A Circuit for Change
To answer the seemingly simple question "Have I been here before?" we must use our memories of previous experiences to determine if our current location...
HIV Drug Used to Reverse Effects of Virus That Causes Cervical Cancer
A commonly-used HIV drug has been shown to kill-off the human papilloma virus (HPV) that leads to cervical cancer in a world-first clinical trial led...
