Dr. Frederick Sanger Has Died, Age 95
Dr. Frederick Sanger, recognized by many as the “father of genomics”, died Tuesday 19 November 2013, at the age of 95. The founding member of...
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Researchers Grow Artificial Skin Using Umbilical Cord Stem Cells
This important scientific breakthrough, developed by the University of Granada, will aid the immediate use of artificially-grown skin for major burn patients, since the skin...
Mysterious Virus Could Be Signal of Weak Immune System
More than 260,000 Americans are alive today thanks to transplant operations that have replaced their failing kidneys, hearts, lungs or livers with healthy organs donated...
Breaking the Code
You may be sensitive to gluten, but you’re not sure. Perhaps you can’t put your finger on a recurring malaise, and your doctor is at...
Neanderthal viruses found in modern humans
Ancient viruses from Neanderthals have been found in modern human DNA by researchers at Oxford University and Plymouth University. The researchers compared genetic data from...
Potential for Investigational Bioengineered Vessel as Dialysis Graft
An investigational, man-made blood vessel used in vascular grafts for kidney dialysis patients may potentially show encouraging early results among study patients in Poland, according...
Robots That Mimic Biology
Nature is our best engineer, and the finest robots are the ones that mimic it. Festo, a multinational robotics firm based in Germany, has made...
Bionic implant to treat mental illness
UOW researchers are in the midst of developing an innovative brain implant to help treat people with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Professor Xu-Feng Huang,...
3D-Printed Heart Could Be Beating in 10 Years
An ambitious 3D-printed heart project aims to make a natural organ replacement for patients possible within a decade. But the researcher heading the effort also...
Bioengineered ears win first place at World Technology Summit
A method for bioengineering living human ears garnered a first-place award at the World Technology Summit in New York City, Nov. 15.Lawrence Bonassar, associate professor...
Bacteria Recycle Broken DNA
From a bacteria’s perspective the environment is one big DNA waste yard. Researchers have now shown that bacteria can take up small as well as...
Researchers Find Protein That Regulates Burning of Body Fat
The uncoupling Protein 1 (UCP1) is found exclusively in brown adipose tissue. Until some years ago it was thought that only babies and hibernating animals...
‘Mini-Kidney’ Structures Generated from Human Stem Cells
Diseases affecting the kidneys represent a major and unsolved health issue worldwide. The kidneys rarely recover function once they are damaged by disease, highlighting the...
Researchers Improve Nanopore-Based Technology for Detecting DNA Molecules
If we wanted to count the number of people in a crowd, we could make on the fly estimates, very likely to be imprecise, or...
Protein Coding ‘Junk Genes’ May Be Linked to Cancer
By using a new analysis method, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Sweden have found close to one hundred novel...
