Hijacking the brain’s blood supply
Dangerous brain tumors hijack the brain’s existing blood supply throughout their progression, by growing only within narrow potential spaces between ...
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New prosthetic arm controlled by neural messages
A new design aims to identify the memory of movement in the amputee's brain in order to manipulate the prosthetic ...
First gene therapy trial launched for heart patients with mechanical pumps
For the first time in the world, a patient with a mechanical heart pump is taking part in a new ...
Breakthroughs made in ovarian cancer research
Scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and the Bioinformatics Institute (BII) have found new clues to early detection ...
Neuroprotective role of immune cell discovered
A type of immune cell widely believed to exacerbate chronic adult brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis ...
Bioengineered red blood cells could carry precious therapeutic cargo
Whitehead Institute scientists have genetically and enzymatically modified red blood cells to carry a range of valuable payloads—from drugs, to ...
Seeing the inner workings of brain made easier by new technique
Last year Karl Deisseroth, a Stanford professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, announced a new way of ...
New insight into how brain regulates its blood flow
In a new study published online in the Journal of the American Heart Association June 12, 2014, researchers at Columbia ...
How to erase a memory –- and restore it: Researchers reactivate memories in rats
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have erased and reactivated memories in rats, profoundly altering ...
New genetic sequencing methods mean quicker, cheaper, and accurate embryo screening
Results from the first study of the clinical application of next generation DNA sequencing (NGS) in screening embryos for genetic ...
Biomedical engineers offer much-needed update for blood-sampling process
Dr. Erwin Berthier studied biomedical engineering because he wanted to change the world. Since he co-founded Tasso, Inc., his dream ...
Brain-Like Computing: Electrons in Wacky Oxide
Current computing is based on binary logic – zeroes and ones – also called Boolean computing. A new type of ...
New Implanted Devices May Reshape Medicine
Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Tokyo have created electronic devices that become soft ...
Artificial magnetic bacteria “turn” food into natural drugs
Scientists from the University of Granada are the first to develop magnetic bacteria that, as part of food intake, help ...
Conducting polymer films decorated with biomolecules for cell research use
The ability to create conducting polymer films in a variety of shapes, thicknesses and surface properties rapidly and inexpensively will ...
Life on Cheese
Bacteria and moulds are vital to the ripening and aroma of many cheeses. Scientists from the Institute for Milk Hygiene, ...
Bioengineers Develop Bacterial ‘FM Radio’
Programming living cells offers the prospect of harnessing sophisticated biological machinery for transformative applications in energy, agriculture, water remediation and ...
Mapping the spider genome
For the first time ever, a group of Danish and Chinese researchers has sequenced the genome of the spider. This ...
Post-doctoral Position, Bioengineering, MINATEC, Grenoble FRANCE
A 2-year post-doctoral position in available for an international research project based in the Dept of Bioengineering at the Grenoble ...
Bone marrow-on-a-chip unveiled
The latest organ-on-a-chip from Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering reproduces the structure, functions and cellular make-up of bone ...