Engineer invents a way to beam power to medical chips deep inside the body
A wireless system developed by Assistant Professor Ada Poon uses the same power as a cell phone to safely transmit energy to chips the size...
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Paralysed hand able to move again
For the first time scientists have been able to restore the ability to grasp with a paralysed hand using spinal cord stimulation. There is currently...
Ground Breaking, 3D-Printed Hip Surgery
Doctors and scientists in Southampton have completed their first hip surgery with a 3D printed implant and bone stem cell graft. Pre and post-operative hip....
Illuminating neuron activity in 3D
Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains of living animals. This technique,...
Dogs May Help Spot Human Prostate Cancers
Dogs can be trained to sniff out evidence of prostate cancer in human urine with near-perfect accuracy, Italian researchers report. Medical Detection Dogs are better...
First lab-grown tissue mapped from atomic life
Molecular ‘fingerprint’ for tissue taken from first isotope-enriched mouse has huge potential for scientific breakthroughs, as well as improved medical implants. Earliest research based on...
Mice With MS-Like Condition Walk Again
Mice severely disabled by a multiple sclerosis (MS) – like condition could walk less than two weeks following treatment with human stem cells. The finding,...
First test of pluripotent stem cell therapy in monkeys is a success
Researchers have shown for the first time in an animal that is more closely related to humans that it is possible to make new bone...
Scientists show AIDS vaccine could work against changeable site on HIV
A vaccine or other therapy directed at a single site on a surface protein of HIV could in principle neutralize nearly all strains of the...
Brain-Like Computing: Electrons in Wacky Oxide
Current computing is based on binary logic – zeroes and ones – also called Boolean computing. A new type of computing architecture that stores information...
Enzyme helps stem cells improve recovery from limb injuries
While it seems like restoring blood flow to an injured leg would be a good thing, it can actually cause additional damage that hinders recovery,...
New stem cell research points to early indicators of schizophrenia
Using new stem cell technology, scientists at the Salk Institute have shown that neurons generated from the skin cells of people with schizophrenia behave strangely...
Novel ways by which human fungal infections may be controlled
New research has found novel factors that affect the ability of fungi to be incorporated into microbial communities within the human body and thus new...
Microchip-like technology allows single-cell analysis
A U.S. and Korean research team has developed a chip-like device that could be scaled up to sort and store hundreds of thousands of individual...
It’s in the genes
Genetic material hitchhiking in our cells may shape physical traits more than we thought. In 2003, when the human genome had been sequenced, many people...
