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A team of researchers from Italy, Israel and the United Kingdom has succeeded in generating mature, functional skeletal muscles in mice using a new approach for tissue engineering. The scientists grew a leg muscle starting from engineered cells cultured in a dish to produce a graft. The subsequent graft was implanted close to a normal,

New technology could be used to detect drugs at airports, diagnose certain cancers and test food quality, researchers say Humans can detect more than one trillion different smells, according to a study by researchers at The Rockefeller University. With such power to distinguish smells, the human nose can identify the scent of a beautiful flower,

Since “2001: A Space Odyssey,” people have wondered: could machines like HAL 9000 eventually exist that can process information with human-like intelligence? Researchers at Michigan State University say that true, human-level intelligence remains a long way off, but their new paper published in The American Naturalist explores how computers could begin to evolve learning in the same

A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a new feedback system to remotely control mobile robots. This innovative research will allow robots to operate with minimal supervision and could eventually lead to a robot that can learn or even become autonomous. The research, developed by Dr. Jagannathan Sarangapani, makes use of

A new app which turns any smartphone into a portable medical diagnostic device could help in the fight against diseases including HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world. A recently-developed mobile phone application could make monitoring conditions such as diabetes, kidney disease, and urinary tract infections much clearer and easier for both patients and

UNIGE researchers have developed an approach that combines genomics and machine learning tools to explore the microbial biodiversity of ecosystems. Microorganisms perform key functions in ecosystems and their diversity reflects the health of their environment. However, they are still largely under-exploited in current biomonitoring programs because they are difficult to identify. Researchers from the University

MIT researchers devise a surprisingly simple but effective method for magnetically separating oil and water. MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used to clean up oil spills. They believe that, with their technique, the oil could be recovered for use, offsetting much of the cost

New findings by civil engineering researchers in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering shows that treating municipal wastewater solids at higher temperatures may be an effective tool in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Heating the solid waste to 130 degrees Fahrenheit (55 degrees Celsius) was particularly effective in eliminating the genes that

BitTorrent did not have any significant effect on Box Office earnings in the US . . .   Hollywood is guilty of engendering and encouraging piracy; this according to a new study that was carried out by two economic professors from Wellesley College and the University of Minnesota. The study tries to find some correlations between the

Matrox Graphics’ new Extio F2408 KVM Extension Solution offers a new capability we feel certain will find many new uses. It enables a multiple display configuration of up to eight 1920×1200 screens to be separated from the host PC by up to a kilometer (~1100 yards) of fiber-optic cable, yet still produce the same flawless