Oxford science projects get £67 million in funding
The projects will help small technology companies grow and bring products to market. The fields earmarked for development under the scheme are advanced manufacturing, biomedical...
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Researchers discover how brain regions work together, or alone
Stanford researchers may have solved a riddle about the inner workings of the brain, which consists of billions of neurons, organized into many different regions,...
Architects of Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain
Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some have imagined that with sufficiently robust memory, processing...
DNA Wires for Application in Nanoelectronics
Since continuous miniaturization in microelectronics is already starting to reach the physical limits, researchers are seeking new methods for device fabrication. One promising candidate is...
A new way to induce pluripotency
An unusual reprogramming phenomenon by which the fate of somatic cells can be drastically altered through changes to the external environment is described in two...
Cellular Surgeons: The New Era of Nanomedicine
Pills the size of molecules to seek and destroy tumors. Miniscule robots performing surgery inside patients with a precision never before achieved. Nanobots, a billionth...
New ‘Bioengineered Skin’ Gets Closer to the Real Thing
Successfully tested on rats, the lab-grown product has blood and lymph vessels, scientists say People who need skin grafts because of burns or other injuries...
Puzzling Question in Bacterial Immune System Answered
A central question has been answered regarding a protein that plays an essential role in the bacterial immune system and is fast becoming a valuable...
Stem cell ‘major discovery’ claimed
Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now be made quickly just by dipping blood cells into acid. Stem cells can transform into any tissue...
Computing with Silicon Neurons
Scientists from Berlin and Heidelberg use artificial nerve cells to classify different types of data Thus, they may recognize handwritten numbers, or distinguish plant species...
DNA-Built Nanostructures Safely Target, Image Cancer Tumors
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a method of assembling "building blocks" of gold nanoparticles as the vehicle to deliver...
The scent of cancer
Researchers of the University of Konstanz the first to detect cancer cells using the olfactory senses of fruit flies A research unit in an international...
Lab-Grown, Virus-Free Stem Cells Repair Retinal Tissue in Mice
Investigators at Johns Hopkins report they have developed human induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable of repairing damaged retinal vascular tissue in mice. The stem cells,...
How the Brain Links Memories of Sequential Events
MIT neuroscientists have now discovered how two neural circuits in the brain work together to control the formation of such time-linked memories. This is a...
Live Feed into Our Bodies
A device that can monitor the levels of specific drugs as they flow through the bloodstream may soon take the guesswork out of drug dosing...
