Study Reveals Importance Of Timing For Cellular Signals, Suggests Possible Tactic For Cancer Therapeutics Magic tricks work because they take advantage of the brain’s sensory assumptions, tr... Read more
University of Wisconsin scientists have succeeded in growing functional vocal-cord tissue in the laboratory, a major step toward restoring a voice to people who have lost their vocal cords t... Read more
Crops with improved yields could more easily become a reality, thanks to a development by scientists. Researchers studying a biological process that enables tiny green algae to grow efficien... Read more
Following an exhaustive, ten-year effort, scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and the University of Washington have identified 238 genes that, when removed, increase the r... Read more
A stroke therapy using stem cells extracted from patients’ bone marrow has shown promising results in the first trial of its kind in humans. Five patients received the treatment in a p... Read more
Researchers at the University of Miami and the University of Ulster have created nanoparticles that can transport interacting molecules into living cells. With the continuing need for very s... Read more
A research team with a global reach has developed a chip-like device that could make cancer remission permanent – and that’s just the start. It’s like a random access memory chip... Read more
Sometimes it only takes a quick jolt of electricity to get a swarm of cells moving in the right direction. Researchers at UC Berkeley found that an electrical current can be used to orchestr... Read more
An ambitious 3D-printed heart project aims to make a natural organ replacement for patients possible within a decade. But the researcher heading the “moonshot” effort also believ... Read more
Chemists from North Carolina State Univ. have performed a DNA-based logic-gate operation within a human cell. The research may pave the way to more complicated computations in live cells, as... Read more
Using stem cells, U of M researchers have found a way to regenerate muscles in diseased lab mice. It’s being called breakthrough research by medical journals around the world, and it’s happe... Read more
Independent study gives a new perspective on the importance of the extracellular matrix in the aging process As we get older, the trillions of cells in our body do too. And like us, they bec... Read more
“New areas of research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.” Desktop 3-D printers can already pump out a toy trinket, gear set or even parts to make another printer. Medical rese... Read more