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A fast cell sorter shrinks to cell phone size
Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)
Commercially available cell sorters can rapidly and accurately aid medical diagnosis and biological research, but they are large and expensive, present a biohaz...
Your own personal forecast: Cloudy with a chance of microbes
Sep 22, 2015 (UPI)
Though it may not be as thick as Pigpen's iconic dust ball, everybody travels with their own personal microbial cloud. According to new research out the Univers...
Genome mining effort discovers 19 new natural products in 4 years
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
It took two postdoctoral researchers, a lab technician, four undergraduates and their faculty advisors only four years - a blink of an eye in pharmaceutical ter...
Italian-Chinese medical team to perform first head transplant
Sep 11, 2015 (AFP)
An Italian-Chinese medical team plan to perform the world's first head transplant in China, one of the surgeons said Friday, amid concerns over medical ethics i...
New 'Tissue Velcro' could help repair damaged hearts
Sep 01, 2015 (SPX)
Engineers at the University of Toronto just made assembling functional heart tissue as easy as fastening your shoes. The team has created a biocompatible scaffo...
UMD-led study identifies the off switch for biofilm formation
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
Bacteria are best known as free-living single cells, but in reality their lives are much more complex. To survive in harsh environments, many species of bacteri...
Medical booking site ZocDoc valued at $1.8 bn
Aug 20, 2015 (AFP)
ZocDoc, a startup allowing consumers to book appointments with medical professionals, said Thursday it raised $130 million in a funding round, giving it a valua...
Supercomputers listen to the heart
Aug 20, 2015 (SPX)
New supercomputer models have come closer than ever to capturing the behavior of normal human heart valves and their replacements, according to recent studies b...
Wireless, implantable device to stimulates nerves in mice
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
A miniature device that combines optogenetics - using light to control the activity of the brain - with a newly developed technique for wirelessly powering impl...
Heating and cooling with light leads to ultrafast DNA diagnostics
Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)
New technology developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, promises to make a workhorse lab tool cheaper, more portable and many times ...
Intracellular microlasers could label a trillion individual cells
Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have induced structures incorporated within individual cells to produce laser light. The wavelengths of light...
Researchers design first artificial ribosome
Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University have engineered a tethered ribosome that works nearly as well as the authentic ...
Transporting remote blood samples with small drones
Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)
In a proof-of-concept study at Johns Hopkins, researchers have shown that results of common and routine blood tests are not affected by up to 40 minutes of trav...
The light of fireflies for medical diagnostics
Jul 24, 2015 (SPX)
In biology and medicine, we often need to detect biological molecules. For example, in cancer diagnostics, doctors need quick and reliable ways of knowing if tu...
Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons
Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)
A study showed that scientists can wirelessly determine the path a mouse walks with a press of a button. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medi...
How the lung repairs its wounds
Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), lung diseases are the third most common cause of death worldwide: toxic particles, infections, and chronic inf...
Earth's degradation threatens major health gains: study
Jul 15, 2015 (AFP)
The unprecedented degradation of Earth's natural resources coupled with climate change could reverse major gains in human health over the last 150 years, accord...
Stem cells might heal damaged lungs
Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)
Collectively, such diseases of the airways as emphysema, bronchitis, asthma and cystic fibrosis are the second leading cause of death worldwide. More than 35 mi...
Spray application of respiratory cells holds promise for tissue engineering
Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)
A new study showing the ability to apply a thin coating of viable respiratory epithelial cells to tissue engineered constructs using a commercially available sp...
Peppermint oil and cinnamon could help treat and heal chronic wounds
Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)
Infectious colonies of bacteria called biofilms that develop on chronic wounds and medical devices can cause serious health problems and are tough to treat. But...
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