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...
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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...
Breakthrough Drug for Advanced Breast Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new drug to treat patients with advanced breast cancer, signaling a new strategy for arresting tumor...
Sea slug photosynthesize like a plant
How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time “feeding” on sunlight, like a plant, is clarified in a recent study...
Tiny Robotic ‘Hand’ in Medicine
Many people imagine robots today as clunky, metal versions of humans, but scientists are forging new territory in the field of ‘soft robotics.’ One of...
Harnessing Immune Cells to Fight Alzheimer’s
New research from scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) shows that the body’s immune system may be...
Researchers reveal how hearing evolved
Lungfish and salamanders can hear, despite not having an outer ear or tympanic middle ear. These early terrestrial vertebrates were probably also able to hear...
Mosquitoes ramp up immune defenses after sucking blood
If you were about to enter a crowded subway during flu season, packed with people sneezing and coughing, wouldn't it be helpful if your immune...
Researchers bioengineered liver-like cells
Liver cells derived from stem cells can be infected with malaria and used to test potential drugs. MIT researchers engineered liver-like cells that can be...
New study sheds light on cancer stem cell regulation
Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) have discovered a precise stem cell signaling process that can lead to intestinal tumors if disrupted. The findings...
