Pills of the future: nanoparticles
Drugs delivered by nanoparticles hold promise for targeted treatment of many diseases, including cancer. However, the particles have to be injected into patients, which has...
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Tongue-Drive Wheelchair
After a diving accident left Jason DiSanto paralyzed from the neck down in 2009, he had to learn how to navigate life from a powered...
Researchers develop new hearing test technology
Stanford researchers have received Bio-X funding to develop a tiny moving probe to study the mechanical properties of sensory cells in the ear. Their research...
Synthetic Antibodies Created With Carbon Nanotube
MIT chemical engineers have developed a novel way to generate nanoparticles that can recognize specific molecules, opening up a new approach to building durable sensors...
How Long Does It Take a Virus to Infect a Cell?
Viruses are as simple as they are "smart": too elementary to be able to reproduce by themselves, they exploit the reproductive "machinery" of cells, by...
Mechanism Behind Blood Stem Cells’ Longevity
The blood stem cells that live in bone marrow are at the top of a complex family tree. Such stem cells split and divide down...
Powerful Tool for Bioengineering
Viruses cannot only cause illnesses in humans, they also infect bacteria. Those protect themselves with a kind of 'immune system' which -- simply put --...
Dr. Frederick Sanger Has Died, Age 95
Dr. Frederick Sanger, recognized by many as the “father of genomics”, died Tuesday 19 November 2013, at the age of 95. The founding member of...
Researchers Grow Artificial Skin Using Umbilical Cord Stem Cells
This important scientific breakthrough, developed by the University of Granada, will aid the immediate use of artificially-grown skin for major burn patients, since the skin...
Mysterious Virus Could Be Signal of Weak Immune System
More than 260,000 Americans are alive today thanks to transplant operations that have replaced their failing kidneys, hearts, lungs or livers with healthy organs donated...
Breaking the Code
You may be sensitive to gluten, but you’re not sure. Perhaps you can’t put your finger on a recurring malaise, and your doctor is at...
Neanderthal viruses found in modern humans
Ancient viruses from Neanderthals have been found in modern human DNA by researchers at Oxford University and Plymouth University. The researchers compared genetic data from...
Potential for Investigational Bioengineered Vessel as Dialysis Graft
An investigational, man-made blood vessel used in vascular grafts for kidney dialysis patients may potentially show encouraging early results among study patients in Poland, according...
Robots That Mimic Biology
Nature is our best engineer, and the finest robots are the ones that mimic it. Festo, a multinational robotics firm based in Germany, has made...
Bionic implant to treat mental illness
UOW researchers are in the midst of developing an innovative brain implant to help treat people with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Professor Xu-Feng Huang,...