Engineers put the ‘squeeze’ on human stem cells
After using optical tweezers to squeeze a tiny bead attached to the outside of a human stem cell, researchers now know how mechanical forces can...
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Revolutionary new probe zooms in on cancer cells
Brain cancer patients may live longer thanks to a new cancer-detection method developed by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro,...
DNA ‘cage’ could improve nanopore technology
Despite having a diameter tens of thousands of times smaller than a human hair, nanopores could be the next big thing in DNA sequencing. By...
Bioengineered insulin could offer better diabetes control
For patients with diabetes, insulin is critical to maintaining good health and normal blood-sugar levels. However, it’s not an ideal solution because it can be...
Synthetic DNA gel points the way to printing artificial organs
A two-part water-based gel made of synthetic DNA could bring the Heriot-Watt inventors of a 3D bio printer closer to being able to print organs...
When a broken heart becomes a real medical condition
On Valentine's Day, people who have been unlucky in love will be said to suffer from a "broken heart." Broken heart also refers to an...
Are lab-grown cells a faithful model for human disease?
Cell cultures used in biology and medical research may not act as a faithful mimic of real tissue, according to research published in Genome Biology....
Epigenetic Breakthrough: First Tool to Study Histone Code
University of North Carolina scientists have created a new research tool, based on the fruit fly, to help crack the histone code. This research tool...
Bionic Leaf: Bacteria Convert Solar Energy Into Liquid Fuel
Harvesting sunlight is a trick plants mastered more than a billion years ago, using solar energy to feed themselves from the air and water around...
3-D printing with custom molecules
Imagine printing out molecules that can respond to their surroundings. A research project at the University of Washington merges custom chemistry and 3-D printing. Scientists...
Molecular Gastronomy
Anyone who's ever been to France knows it's a country that celebrates its food and takes enormous pride in not only the taste, but also...
Forcing Wounds to Close
A collaborative study led by scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has revealed the mechanical forces that drive...
3-D Vaccine Against Cancer, Infectious Diseases
NIBIB-funded researchers have developed a novel 3D vaccine that could provide a more effective way to harness the immune system to fight cancer as well...
Drug detectives
A good drug is hard to design: to garner FDA approval and reach consumers, it must not only effectively treat a medical condition, but it...
‘Virtual virus’ unfolds the flu on a CPU
By combining experimental data from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, cryoelectron microscopy and lipidomics (the study of cellular lipid networks), researchers at the University of Oxford...
