National Foundation for Cancer Research conducts Salisbury Award Competition
Winner and runners-up named, Salisbury Family honoredCredit: NFCR ROCKVILLE, MD - The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) last Thursday, ...
Tag: Biotechnology
Children’s Tumor Foundation and DELopen increase access to compounds for neurofibromatosis
Credit: Children's Tumor Foundation New York: November 19, 2019 - The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF), an innovative and global neurofibromatosis ...
RNA regulation is crucial for embryonic stem cell differentiation
Credit: Will Garland/AU Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are distinguished by their dual ability to self-renew and their potential to differentiate, ...
Complex organ models grown in the lab
Credit: Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology In 2006, Japanese researchers came up with a new way of creating pluripotent ...
King’s College AI-Longevity Hub launched via support of Biogerontology Research Foundation
The UK's first AI for Longevity hub -- the Longevity AI Consortium -- is launched at King's College London with ...
Directional control of self-propelled protocells
The future of drug delivery?Credit: Ambika Somasundar, Penn State Synthetic protocells can be made to move toward and away from ...
Metabolic syndrome: New use for an old drug
The syndrome, which affects more than 35% of the over-50 population in Western countries, could be treated with Ibrutinib, a ...
WPI engineers creating miniaturized, wireless oxygen sensor for sick infants
Mobile, wearable device the size of a Band-Aid could allow babies to leave the hospital and be monitored from homeCredit: ...
FEFU scientists obtained new compounds with potential antitumor effect from sea sponge
Credit: FEFU press office Chemists from Far Eastern Federal University's School of Natural Sciences (SNS FEFU) developed a new method ...
NJIT biomedical engineer Tara Alvarez is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry
Credit: NJIT Tara Alvarez, a professor of biomedical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) who studies the links ...
Chitin-binding proteins override host plant’s resistance to fungal infection
Credit: Helena Volk, Kristina Marton, Marko Flajšman, et al. An insoluble complex carbohydrate, chitin makes up fungal walls and plays ...
A new facial analysis method detects genetic syndromes with high precision and specificity
Developed by Araceli Morales, Gemma Piella and Federico Sukno, members of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, together with ...
Artificial intelligence to run the chemical factories of the future
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new proof-of-concept study details how an automated system driven by ...
Forget the Chardonay, pass me the grape stems! Anti-tumor activity in prostate cancer cells
Credit: Hidefumi Makabe & Hiroshi Fujii, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Shinshu University, Japan Grape stems are discarded en masse during ...
Light at the end of the nanotunnel for future catalysts
Credit: Sune Levin and Nature Communications Using a new type of nanoreactor, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have ...
Why only some post-stroke survivors can ‘copy what I say’
Certain brain regions must be intact in stroke survivors with aphasia if they are to copy what another speaker says, ...
AI-driven single blood cell classification
New method to support physicians in leukemia diagnosticsCredit: ©Helmholtz Zentrum München / Carsten Marr Every day, millions of single blood ...
Novela neurotech begins testing wireless, read-write capable brain prosthesis in animals
Credit: Novela Neurotech Toronto, ON--To further develop its wireless electrode for reading from and writing into the brain, Novela Neurotech ...
Using sound waves to remotely target drugs to tumors
Researchers have combined an ultrafast ultrasound imaging system with ultrasonic tweezers to track, trap and target drug carriers within a ...
Spray painting fiber bandages onto wounds
A new device can deposit drug-delivering fibers directly onto biological materialCredit: L.G. Huston and E.A. Kooistra-Manning, Montana Technological University WASHINGTON, ...
