Location: Cambridge, United States
Source: "The rational design of nitric oxide selectivity in
single-walled carbon nanotube near infrared fluorescence sensors for biological
detection"
Jong-Ho Kim et al
Nature Chemistry
Results: A...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Living cells are bombarded with messages from the outside world -- hormones
and other chemicals tell them to grow, migrate, die or do nothing. Inside the
cell, complex signaling networks interpret these cues and make life-and-death...
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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: Cambridge, United States
Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices have the potential to revolutionize the world of sensors: motion, chemical, temperature, etc. But taking electromechanical devices from the micro scale down to the nano requires finding a means to...
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Location: Marseilles, United States
The life of a cell is not governed only by the biochemistry and genetics. The mechanics also say. A team of physicists from the Institute Fresnel1 in Marseilles, and biologists from the Institute of Developmental Biology of
Marseille-Luminy...
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Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Researchers in Heidelberg discover new protein that is suppressed in
particularly aggressive cancer cell.
If cancer cells lack a certain protein, it could be much easier for them to
penetrate healthy body tissue, the first step...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
A miniature telescope implanted into the eye could soon help people with
vision loss from end-stage macular degeneration. Last week, an advisory panel
for the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended that the agency
approve...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
The human heart has a notorious reputation for being unable to heal itself,
but new research suggests it is capable of at least some self-repair. Using
carbon dating to gauge the age of heart cells, scientists have found that low
numbers...
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Location: Los Angeles, United States
New research suggests that the layer of insulation coating neural wiring in
the brain plays a critical role in determining intelligence. In addition, the
quality of this insulation appears to be largely genetically determined,
providing...
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Location: London, United Kingdom
A novel matrix of neural stem cells and a biodegradable polymer can quickly repair brain damage from stroke in rats. Within just seven days of injecting the concoction directly into the damaged part of the brain, new nerve tissue grew to fill...
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Location: Indianapolis, United States
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar
filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as
conduits to regenerate nerves severed in accidents or blood vessels damaged by...
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Location: Case Western Reserve University, United States
Traditionally, stimulating nerves or brain tissue involves cumbersome wiring
and a sharp metal electrode. But a team of researchers at Case Western Reserve
University is going "wireless."
And it's a unique collaboration...
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Location: COLUMBUS, United States
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have determined that a specific gene plays a role
in the weight-gain response to a high-fat diet.
The finding in an animal study suggests that blocking this gene could one day
be a therapeutic...
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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: Edinburgh, United States
Researchers have moved closer to making silicon chips which could one day be
used to repair damaged tissue in the human body.
Edinburgh University has developed a technique, which allows neurons to grow in
fine, detailed patterns...
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Location: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, United Kingdom
A team of scientists at the Defence Science
and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), in collaboration with
Corus, have developed an advanced
armour steel called Super...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer - a remarkably high
number. But what about the flipside of those statistics? That is, two out of
three people never get cancer, and more than half of heavy smokers don’t get...
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Location: Pisa, Italy
Researchers are looking to put micro-robots to work as internal surgeons. The hope is that some of these tablet-shaped robots could perform certain gastrointestinal operations without injuring the patient's body. The process
would begin with...
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Location: California, United States
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain...
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Location: CNRS, France
One of the main topics of developmental biology is to understand how gene regulatory networks are linked to the form of multicellular beings. While the genes indirectly control the geometry of the tissue by affecting chemical and mechanical...
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