Stem cell advance yields mature heart muscle cells
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has induced human embryonic stem cells (hESC) to differentiate toward pure-population, mature heart muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes.A team...
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Simple blood test could improve treatment for deadly childhood cancer
A simple blood test* could pinpoint which children are unlikely to respond to treatment for a particularly aggressive form of neuroblastoma, according to a study...
Researchers find protein ‘switch’ central to heart cell division
In a study that began in a pair of infant siblings with a rare heart defect, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified a key...
Novel blood screen reveals risk of dying
Researchers have identified four biomarkers that help to identify people at high risk of dying from any disease within the next five years. Photo: 123rf...
Rise of the human exoskeletons
Engineers in Italy have developed a wearable robot which they claim is the most sophisticated built in the world to date On the outskirts of...
Study finds less cooperation among women than among men where hierarchy is involved
It's long been a popular stereotype: Men are hugely competitive, meaning cooperative effort is the exception rather than the norm, while women have a tendency...
A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA
In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they were studying in a common...
Imaging dynamics of small biomolecules inside live cells
Columbia researchers develop a general optical imaging platform to examine activities of a broad range of small biomolecules in living cells and animals Columbia University...
Building Artificial Cells Will Be a Noisy Business
Engineers like to make things that work. And if one wants to make something work using nanoscale components—the size of proteins, antibodies, and viruses—mimicking the...
Revolutionary membrane can keep your heart beating perfectly forever
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new device that may one day help prevent...
PhD studentship : Lausanne, Switzerland
We are looking for PhD students interested in the following projects, starting as soon as possible: Wavefront/beamshaping for deep tissue ablation Information retrieval through scattering...
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World’s First ‘Bionic’ Dog
Bionic dog can walk again after being fitted with prosthetics Naki’o, a mixed breed dog from Nebraska, has become the first dog fitted with four...
Building a 3D model of ovarian cancer
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, a €2.43million grant for a project that aims...
Postdoc in Bioengineering – Karolinska Institutet
The research group of Ana Teixeira at Karolinska Institutet is looking to hire an outstanding postdoctoral fellow to join a project that aims to investigate...
