New findings highlight promise of chimeric organisms for science and medicine
Loading video... Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(January 26, 2017) Rapid advances in the ability to grow cells, tissues and organs of one species within an...
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Model driverless car regulations after drug approval process, AI ethics experts argue
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Autonomous systems -- like driverless cars -- perform tasks that previously could only be performed by humans. In a new IEEE...
NIST updates ‘sweet’ 1950s separation method to clean nanoparticles from organisms
Credit: K. Scott/NIST Sometimes old-school methods provide the best ways of studying cutting-edge tech and its effects on the modern world. Giving a 65-year-old laboratory...
Professors Ateshian and Myers win ASME honors for bioengineering research
Credit: Ateshian: photo by Matt Lenz/Columbia Engineering Myers: photo by Eileen Barroso/Columbia Engineering Two mechanical engineering professors have won top honors from the American Society...
Answers to how our brains make meaning, with the help of a little LSD
We all have particular experiences or particular things--a favorite song, for example--that mean much more to us than others. Now, researchers who've studied how perceptions...
Structure of LSD and its receptor explains its potency
Credit: Bryan Roth Lysergic acid diethylamide--more commonly known as "LSD" or simply "acid"--is one of the longest lasting and most potent hallucinogens, but researchers have...
A cellular system makes the battle against a rare disease personal
Credit: Image: Gizem Inak, Prigione Team, MDC Some diseases are untreatable because we lack a model system to fully understand symptoms or test possible drugs....
This is LSD attached to a brain cell serotonin receptor
Credit: Lab of Bryan Roth, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC - A tiny tab of acid on the tongue. A daylong trip through...
Pigs and chocolate: Using math to solve problems in farming
Improving cocoa yields for the chocolate industry, estimating the quality of meat in pigs and refining the design of a hydroponics system, were three farming...
Caught red-handed: The ‘candy-striped hermit crab’ is a new species from the Caribbean
Loading video... Credit: Rafael Lemaitre and Ellen Muller Recent underwater photographs and video obtained using scuba equipment by underwater photographer Ellen Muller at dive sites...
Scientists map the genetic evolution of dinoflagellates for the first time
BALTIMORE, MD (January 26, 2017)--A group scientists have used new genetic sequencing data to understand how an ancient organism that lived alongside the dinosaurs has...
LSD alters perception via serotonin receptors
Researchers from UZH have discovered how the perception of meaning changes in the brain under the influence of LSD. The serotonin 2A receptors are responsible...
First 3-D observation of nanomachines working inside cells
Credit: O. Gallego, IRB Barcelona Currently, biologists who study the function of protein nanomachines isolate these complexes in test tubes, divorced from the cell, and...
Scientists describe lab technique with potential to change medicine and research
WASHINGTON -- Researchers who developed and tested a revolutionary laboratory technique that allows for the endless growth of normal and diseased cells in a laboratory...
Study tightens connection between intestinal microorganisms, diet, and colorectal cancer
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON -- A new study provides some of the strongest evidence to date that microorganisms living in the large intestine can...
