‘Bio-pen’ will allow surgeons to draw new bone inside patients
A hand-held ''bio pen'' developed in Wollongong will allow surgeons to draw regenerating bone material directly on to the body. The development enables customised implants...
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Estrogen: Not Just Produced by Ovaries
A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team reports today that the brain can produce and release estrogen -- a discovery that may lead to a better...
Researchers block replication of AIDS virus
A multidisciplinary team of scientists from Spanish universities and research centres, among which is the University of Valencia, has managed to design small synthetic molecules...
Male and female brains wired differently
A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found striking differences in the neural...
Human Stem Cells Converted to Functional Lung Cells
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in transforming human stem cells into functional lung and airway cells. The advance, reported by Columbia University Medical...
Mice can ‘warn’ sons, grandsons of dangers via sperm
Lab mice trained to fear a particular smell can transfer the impulse to their unborn sons and grandsons through a mechanism in their sperm, a...
Pills of the future: nanoparticles
Drugs delivered by nanoparticles hold promise for targeted treatment of many diseases, including cancer. However, the particles have to be injected into patients, which has...
Tongue-Drive Wheelchair
After a diving accident left Jason DiSanto paralyzed from the neck down in 2009, he had to learn how to navigate life from a powered...
Researchers develop new hearing test technology
Stanford researchers have received Bio-X funding to develop a tiny moving probe to study the mechanical properties of sensory cells in the ear. Their research...
Synthetic Antibodies Created With Carbon Nanotube
MIT chemical engineers have developed a novel way to generate nanoparticles that can recognize specific molecules, opening up a new approach to building durable sensors...
How Long Does It Take a Virus to Infect a Cell?
Viruses are as simple as they are "smart": too elementary to be able to reproduce by themselves, they exploit the reproductive "machinery" of cells, by...
Mechanism Behind Blood Stem Cells’ Longevity
The blood stem cells that live in bone marrow are at the top of a complex family tree. Such stem cells split and divide down...
Powerful Tool for Bioengineering
Viruses cannot only cause illnesses in humans, they also infect bacteria. Those protect themselves with a kind of 'immune system' which -- simply put --...
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...
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...
