Location: Cambridge, United States
In the search for answers to the planet's biggest challenges, some MIT
researchers are turning to its tiniest organisms: bacteria.
The idea of exploiting microbial products is not new: Humans have long
enlisted bacteria and yeast to...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer
viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a
lithium-ion battery.
The new virus-produced batteries have the same energy capacity and...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT Professor of Chemical Engineering Gregory Rutledge keeps a small piece of
fabric that at first glance resembles a Kleenex. This tissue-like material,
softer than silk, is composed of fibers that are a thousand times thinner than a
human...
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Location: Marion Doucet or Nadine Peyrolo: @ pasteur.fr marion.doucet - 01 45 68 89 28, France
Through a study of human genetics in different populations around the world,
researchers at the Pasteur Institute and CNRS have discovered how pathogens may
vary over time the evolution of our immune system.
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Location: Oak Ridge, United States
The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by
thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and
cyanobacteria, to fungi and microalgae, are biological factories that are
proving to be...
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Location: Minnesota, United States
Genetically engineering plants is a time-intensive process. Methods currently
used to deliver genetic changes are imprecise, so it's often necessary to
generate thousands of plants to find one that happens to have the desired
alteration....
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Location: Syracuse, United States
The new technology may lead to the development of improved medical implants
This is the tale of two biological substances—cells from mammals and bacteria.
It's a story about the havoc these microscopic entities can wreak on...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Despite medicine's inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can
still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein's monster than to
the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for...
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Location: Lund, Sweden
Mould toxins in buildings damaged by moisture are considerably more prevalent than was previously thought, according to new international research. Erica Bloom from the Division of Medical Microbiology at Lund University in Sweden has contributed...
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Location: Michigan, United States
Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.
This development could lead to simpler pharmaceutical drug testing, closer study of immune system defects and a...
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Location: Los Angeles, United States
Researchers-Aydogan Ozcan,
Abstracts- In many Third World and developing countries, the distance between
people in need of health care and the facilities capable of providing it
constitutes a major obstacle to...
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Location: UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
Tiny strands of genetic material called RNA – a chemical cousin of DNA – are
emerging as major players in gene regulation, the process inside cells that
drives all biology and that scientists seek to control in order to fight
disease....
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Location: Berlin, Russian Federation
An interdisciplinary research team at the Free University of Berlin (FUB) and
the Institute for Studies on bees (Länderinstitut für Bienenkunde) Hohen
Neuendorf discovered the mechanism of infection of a deadly disease among
bees,...
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Location: massachusetts, United States
Having found that whether bacteria stick to surfaces depends partly on how stiff those surfaces are, it has been created ultra thin films made of polymers that could be applied to medical devices and other surfaces to control microbe accumulation....
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Location: American Chemical Society (ACS), United States
Nanotechnology is now available in a store near you. Valued
for it’s antibacterial and odor-fighting properties, nanoparticle silver is
becoming the star attraction in a range of products from socks to bandages to
washing...
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Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Looking for evidence of life on Mars or other planets?
Finding cellulose microfibers would be the next best thing to a close encounter,
according to new research from the ...
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Location: Arizona State University, United States
One day soon a biosensing nanodevice developed by
Arizona State
University researcher Wayne Frasch may eliminate long lines at airport
security checkpoints...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the
scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of
alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to
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Location: Case Western Reserve University, United States
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the departments
of macromolecular science and engineering and biomedical engineering at the
Case School of...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A team led by a
Purdue University
researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had
previously been achieved.
Wen...
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