IBM is bringing Watson to your smartphone
IBM’s Watson is one of the smartest computer systems on the planet: its advanced artificial intelligence can answer natural language questions thanks to its ability...
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Faculty Positions in Institute of Bioengineering, Zhejiang University : Hangzhou, China
The Institute of Bioengineering at Zhejiang University was established in 1986 and is one of the seven institutes in the Department of chemical and Biological...
Lab-grown human heart cells could mean fewer animals used in research
Scientists at Imperial College London are aiming to cut the need to use animals in research by improving methods for growing heart cells in the...
Artificial muscles do the twist
In 3D, healthy hearts do their own version of the twist. Rather than a simple pumping action, they circulate blood as if they were wringing...
Faster wound healing from bioengineered growth factors
Scientists at EPFL have greatly improved the effectiveness of growth factors, paving new strategies for regenerative medicine. When we are wounded, our bodies naturally begin...
Stanford researchers identify cellular elastic that keeps nerves resilient
A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists has found the secret to how nerves withstand the wear and tear of bending joints and moving tissues: an...
Researchers generate new neurons in brains, spinal cords of living adult mammals
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the need for stem cell transplants...
Magnetic medicine: Nanoparticles and magnetic fields train immune cells to fight cancer in mice
Using tiny particles designed to target cancer-fighting immune cells, Johns Hopkins researchers have trained the immune systems of mice to fight melanoma, a deadly skin...
Mini-livers show promise to reduce animal use in science
Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s international prize for the scientific...
Pinwheel ‘living’ crystals and the origin of life
Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call 'living rotating crystals' that could serve as a nanopump....
Biochips for better cancer therapy
Cancer is the second leading cause of disease-related death in the United States, and may overtake heart disease without aggressive new therapies. One promising area...
New Technology Reveals Secrets of Cellular Memory
Cells in our body are constantly dividing to maintain our body functions. At each division, our DNA code and a whole machinery of supporting components...
A paper diagnostic for cancer
Low-cost urine test developed by MIT engineers amplifies signals from growing tumors to detect disease. Cancer rates in developing nations have climbed sharply in recent...
3-D printer creates transformative device for heart treatment
Using an inexpensive 3-D printer, biomedical engineers have developed a custom-fitted, implantable device with embedded sensors that could transform treatment and prediction of cardiac disorders....
New Biological Scaffold for Stem Cells
Our cells don't live in a vacuum. They are surrounded by a complex, nurturing matrix that is essential for many biological functions, including growth and...