Bioengineers design ‘living materials’ to produce conductive materials
Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements that can conduct electricity or emit light. An artist's rendering of a bacterial cell engineered to produce...
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Bioengineering Students Develop Cheap Blood Sugar Testing Kit
Clemson University bioengineering students have created a cost-effective, blood sugar testing kit for diabetics. The kit works in similar fashion to conventional methods of testing...
Stem cell findings may offer answers for some bladder defects and disease
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in coaxing laboratory cultures of human stem cells to develop into the specialized, unique cells needed to repair...
A new way to make muscle cells from human stem cells
As stem cells continue their gradual transition from the lab to the clinic, a research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has discovered a new...
Humans Can Distinguish at Least One Trillion Different Odors
In a world perfumed by freshly popped popcorn and exhaust fumes, where sea breezes can mingle with the scents of sweet flowers or wet paint,...
What Singing Fruit Flies Can Tell Us About Quick Decisions
You wouldn't hear the mating song of the male fruit fly as you reached for the infested bananas in your kitchen. Yet, the neural activity...
Dendritic cell research a step toward improved vaccines
Eyal Amiel didn't think he wanted to study immunology, let alone make a career of it. But as co-author of a paper recently published in...
Major breakthrough in developing new cancer drugs
The Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Université de Montréal (UdeM), in collaboration with the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital's Quebec Leukemia Cell Bank,...
Reducing anxiety with smartphone app
Playing a science-based mobile gaming app for 25 minutes can reduce anxiety in stressed individuals, according to research published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal...
Stem Cells from Muscle Can Repair Nerve Damage After Injury
Stem cells derived from human muscle tissue were able to repair nerve damage and restore function in an animal model of sciatic nerve injury, according...
The 28th Symposium of The Protein Society
The 28th annual symposium of the Protein Society will be held in San Diego, July 27-30 2014. A full list of speakers and the preliminary...
EMBO Conference: Stem Cells in Cancer and Regenerative Medicine
Regenerative medicine is based on the ability of stem cells to repair tissue damage. The regenerative capacity of endogenous stem cells decreases with age, is...
Researchers find stem cells remember prior substrates
A team of researchers working at the University of Colorado has found that human stem cells appear to remember the physical nature of the structure...
Bioengineered bacteria sense, remember, and report on their experience in the gut
It's a jungle in there. In the tightly woven ecosystem of the human gut, trillions of bacteria compete with each other on a daily basis...
Thermal vision
The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike...
