Neural Prosthesis Restores Behavior After Brain Injury
Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior -- in this case, the ability to reach through a...
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Biochemical mechanisms of memory
A discovery by a research team led by Ryohei Yasuda at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience has significantly advanced basic understanding of biochemical...
An artificial heart containing miniaturised space technology will soon beat inside a person
An artificial heart containing miniaturised space technology will soon beat inside a person, having now been approved for human trials in France. With heart disease...
An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings
A new nerve interface can simulate a sense of touch from 20 spots on a prosthetic hand. There have been remarkable mechanical advances in prosthetic...
Christmas Tree for Bioengineers
Christmas Tree for Bioengineers
Skin Communicates With the Liver
Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have discovered that the skin is capable of communicating with the liver. The discovery has surprised the scientists,...
Suzanne Lee: Grow your own clothes
Using bacterial-cellulose, Lee aims to address pressing ecological and sustainability issues around fashion and beyond. A Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of...
Surviving Ovarian Cancer: Rutgers Scientists Attack Drug Resistant Cancer Cells
Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a targeted drug delivery system that they believe could make ovarian cancer more treatable and increase survival rates for...
Synthetic RNAs designed to fight cancer
In search of better cancer treatments, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have designed synthetic molecules that combine the advantages of...
Research Identifies Promising Tool for Cardiac Stem Cell Grafting
New research by University of Vermont Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Jeffrey Spees, and colleagues has identified a new tool that could help facilitate future...
ICABB 2014 – 2014 International Conference on Advances in Bioscience and Bioengineering
The aim objective of the 2014 International Conference on Advances in Bioscience and Bioengineering (ICABB 2014) is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians...
Neural Workaround Makes for More Practical Bionic Limbs
The secret to building brain-controlled prostheses may be to ignore the brain entirely.In the past several years scientists have delivered a slew of advances in...
‘Designer Sperm’ Inserts Custom Genes Into Offspring
Get ready: The "new genetics" promises to change faulty genes of future generations by introducing new, functioning genes using "designer sperm." A new research report...
‘Bio-pen’ will allow surgeons to draw new bone inside patients
A hand-held ''bio pen'' developed in Wollongong will allow surgeons to draw regenerating bone material directly on to the body. The development enables customised implants...
Estrogen: Not Just Produced by Ovaries
A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team reports today that the brain can produce and release estrogen -- a discovery that may lead to a better...
