A new way to enhance nerve growth following injury
New research published today out of the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) uncovers a mechanism to promote growth in damaged nerve cells as...
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Repairing DNA
Our DNA is under constant attack from many sources, including environmental pollutants, ultraviolet light, and radiation. Fortunately, cells have several major DNA repair systems that...
Modified stem cells offer potential pathway to treat Alzheimer’s disease
UC Irvine neurobiologists have found that genetically modified neural stem cells show positive results when transplanted into the brains of mice with the symptoms and...
Mice with human livers would have saved lives
Seven of 15 patients developed severe liver toxicity and died after taking a hepatitis B drug as part of a clinical trial in the early...
In a cloning first, scientists create stem cells from adults
Eighteen years ago, scientists in Scotland took the nuclear DNA from the cell of an adult sheep and put it into another sheep's egg cell...
Simplicity is key to co-operative robots
A way of making hundreds - or even thousands - of tiny robots cluster to carry out tasks without using any memory or processing power...
Scientists find key steps linking dietary fats and colon cancer tumor growth
Scientists have shown new genetic evidence that could strengthen the link between the role of dietary fats with colon cancer progression. Dr. Raymond DuBois The...
A protein required for integrity of induced pluripotent stem cells
Cell reprogramming converts specialised cells such as nerve cells or skin cells towards an embryonic stem cell state. This reversal in the evolutionary development of...
Post-doctoral Position, MINATEC, Grenoble FRANCE
A 2-year post-doctoral position in available for an international research project based in the Dept of Bioengineering at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (MINATEC, Grenoble,...
Researchers offer new views of body’s insulating material
Harvard neuroscientists have made a discovery that turns 160 years of neuroanatomy on its head. Photo Credits: Daniel Berger and Giulio Tomassy Myelin, the electrical...
PhD Studentship on Nanotechnology for Directing Soft-Tissue Repair
Applicants are invited to apply for a fully-funded PhD studentship on a highly interdisciplinary project at the nexus of soft tissue repair, nanotechnology, and biomaterials...
Some immune cells defend only one organ
Scientists have uncovered a new way the immune system may fight cancers and viral infections. The finding could aid efforts to use immune cells to...
Bionic ankle ’emulates nature’
Bionics pioneer Hugh Herr’s prosthetic ankle mimics the power and control of its biological counterpart. Photo Credits: Bryce Vickmark These days, Hugh Herr, an associate...
Our Brains are Hardwired for Language
A groundbreaking study published in PLOS ONE by Prof. Iris Berent of Northeastern University and researchers at Harvard Medical School shows the brains of individual...
IBM creates liquid-based transistors that can process data like the human brain
Researchers at IBM has given the transistor a major makeover, and it may enable the company to build computers that function more like the way...
