For stem cells, it’s a case of home sweet home
Scientists at McMaster have discovered that human stem cells made from adult donor cells “remember” where they came from. Human blood cells in a dish....
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3-D maps of folded genome
In a triumph for cell biology, researchers have assembled the first high-resolution, 3D maps of entire folded genomes and found a structural basis for gene...
‘Electronic Skin’ Accurately Detects Pressure
Touch can be a subtle sense, but it communicates quickly whether something in our hands is slipping, for example, so we can tighten our grip....
Fat cells reprogrammed to increase fat burning
White adipose tissue stores excess calories as fat that can be released for use in other organs during fasting. Mammals also have small amounts of...
Quantum Dots Enable 3-D Printing of Contacts Lens With LEDs
While the research may have only aimed to demonstrate what is possible for 3D printing of electronic devices, researchers at Princeton University have used 3D...
Organic electronics could lead to cheap, wearable medical sensors
Future fitness trackers could soon add blood-oxygen levels to the list of vital signs measured with new technology developed by engineers at UC Berkeley. UC...
Worms’ mental GPS helps them find food
You’ve misplaced your cell phone. You start by scanning where you remember leaving it: on your bureau. You check and double-check the bureau before expanding...
Research reveals structure of key CRISPR complex
Researchers from MIT and the Broad Institute have teamed up with colleagues from the University of Tokyo to form the first high-definition picture of the...
Meniscus regenerated with 3-D printed implant
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have devised a way to replace the knee's protective lining, called the meniscus, using a personalized 3D-printed implant, or scaffold,...
A step toward cracking the code of how brains work
Paying Attention Makes Touch-Sensing Brain Cells Fire Rapidly and in Sync. Whether we’re paying attention to something we see can be discerned by monitoring the...
A pill for obesity? – Stem cell scientists convert white fat to brown fat
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have taken what they describe as “the first step toward a pill that can replace the treadmill” for the...
Turning biological cells to stone improves cancer and stem cell research
Changing flesh to stone sounds like the work of a witch in a fairy tale. But a new technique to transmute living cells into more...
Many memories, many rooms
Researchers have long wondered if there is an upper limit to our capacity to store memories and how we manage to remember so many events...
Post-doctoral Position in Drug Delivery – Dublin, Ireland
One year Post-doctoral position is funded by Science Foundation Ireland Scalable, one step process for production of inhaled anti-tubercular therapies Applications are invited for this...
Nordic Neuroscience 2015: Trondheim
A scientific meeting for all neuroscientists in the Nordic and Baltic states. From June 10th to June 12th, 2015, the first Nordic Neuroscience meeting will...
