Researchers Create Powerful Muscles From Fishing Line
An international team led by The University of Texas at Dallas has discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to...
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A Circuit for Change
To answer the seemingly simple question "Have I been here before?" we must use our memories of previous experiences to determine if our current location...
HIV Drug Used to Reverse Effects of Virus That Causes Cervical Cancer
A commonly-used HIV drug has been shown to kill-off the human papilloma virus (HPV) that leads to cervical cancer in a world-first clinical trial led...
Single Chip Device to Provide Real-Time 3-D Images from Inside the Heart, Blood Vessels
Researchers have developed the technology for a catheter-based device that would provide forward-looking, real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside the heart, coronary arteries and peripheral blood...
Hybrid Fuel Cell Produces Electricity Directly from Biomass
Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as...
PhD Studentship in Bioengineering
A motivated student (PhD position) with background in one of following or related disciplines is desired: chemical engineering, bioengineering, biomedical engineering, biological engineering or molecular...
Hijack cancer migration mechanism
One factor that makes glioblastoma cancers so difficult to treat is that malignant cells from the tumors spread throughout the brain by following nerve fibers...
Genetic switch controls body’s tissue repair system
It is a sad fact that old age brings diseases. Many may not be life-threatening, but they make life less fun. One such condition is...
Theory on origin of animals challenged
One of science's strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere rose to close to modern...
Researchers rejuvenate stem cell population from elderly mice, enabling muscle recover
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have pinpointed why normal aging is accompanied by a diminished ability to regain strength and mobility after...
Using Computers to Speed Up Drug Discovery
One of the major problems in today’s society is the efficiency and cost of developing medicines to treat disease. The advancements in pharmaceutical science have...
Can a virtual brain replace lab rats?
Testing the effects of drugs on a simulated brain could lead to breakthrough treatments for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease.Researchers from...
A ‘game-changer’ for HIV/AIDS
Second-year bioengineering doctoral student Sylvia Natividad-Diaz may have found a way around a persistent obstacle in the treatment of HIV/AIDS—identifying when an HIV-positive patient’s condition...
Special glasses help surgeons ‘see’ cancer
High-tech glasses developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may help surgeons visualize cancer cells, which glow blue when viewed through the...
Scientists identify gene linking brain structure to intelligence
For the first time, scientists at King’s College London have identified a gene linking the thickness of the grey matter in the brain to intelligence....
