Tag: Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering

Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c00564 To defend the body, the immune system makes proteins known as antibodies ...

How the giant sequoia protects itself

Credit: Photo: Plant Biomechanics Group Freiburg The giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) has developed effective strategies to protect itself against external ...

NTU invents antimicrobial compound used in reusable face masks made by Ghim Li Group

Credit: Ghim Li Group Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a sustainable and green way to ...

Call for caution for using a CAR-T immunotherapy against acute myeloid leukemia

Credit: Pablo Menéndez Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematological malignancy which incidence increases with age, that is biologically, phenotypically, ...

$345K NSF grant to fund research to modify paper electronics to make them stretchable

Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York A three-year, $345,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will fund research ...

Primitive stem cells point to new bone grafts for stubborn-to-heal fractures

Texas A&M researchers say these grafts could be used to promote swift and precise bone healingCredit: Texas A&M University College ...

Novotech webinar: Why Asia-Pacific attracts 60% of all hepatology trials globally

This webinar focusses on the reasons why the Asia-Pacific is attracting 60% of ongoing and planned hepatology trials globally (source ...

New Editor-in-Chief appointed for Journal of Photonics for Energy

Sean Shaheen will lead the journal beginning in July 2020Credit: SPIE BELLINGHAM, Washington - On 1 July, Sean Shaheen, associate ...

Wearable patch may provide new treatment option for skin cancer

Credit: Purdue University/Chi Hwan Lee WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Conventional melanoma therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, suffer from the toxicity ...

Directly printing 3D tissues within the body

Researchers take a step closer to 3D printing living tissues in patientsCredit: Ohio State University (LOS ANGELES) - In the ...

Building a circular chemical economy

Pitt's James McKone selected as a 2020 Beckman Young Investigator for a project that recycles carbon dioxide back into useful ...

A salt solution toward better bioelectronics

Diabetic mice improve with retrievable millimeter-thick cell-laden hydrogel fiber

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) results from an ...

All that base

BE-Hive, a new machine learning model predicts which base editor performs best to repair thousands of disease-causing mutationsCredit: Courtesy of ...

New biomaterial has potential to repair damaged bone with lower risk of inflammation

Credit: Titan II Scientists at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have developed a new biomaterial that has the ...

Heart attack in a dish: a 3D model

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and Clemson University report that they have developed human cardiac organoids to ...

Transient increase in blood pressure promotes some blood vessel growth

Finding has implications for combating tumor growth and diseaseCredit: Daisuke Yoshino, TUAT Blood vessels are the body's transportation system, carrying ...

Unlocking PNA’s superpowers for self-assembling nanostructures

Credit: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with ...

Designing new radiotherapy technologies to treat cancer in low and middle-income countries

June 11, 2020

A new project supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) aims to design and develop new radiotherapy technologies ...

Danish researchers looking for rare enzyme that can break down plastics