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Triangles guide the way for live neural circuits in a dish

Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)

Korean scientists have used tiny stars, squares and triangles as a toolkit to create live neural circuits in a dish. They hope the shapes can be used to create ...

Nanoscale scaffolds and stem cells show promise in cartilage repair

Jul 18, 2012 (SPX)

Johns Hopkins tissue engineers have used tiny, artificial fiber scaffolds thousands of times smaller than a human hair to help coax stem cells into developing i...

Man-made pores mimic important features of natural pores

Jul 18, 2012 (SPX)

Inspired by nature, an international research team has created synthetic pores that mimic the activity of cellular ion channels, which play a vital role in huma...

EU threatens Microsoft with antitrust fine over web browser

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

The European Commission threatened Microsoft with another big fine on Tuesday after the US software giant failed to give 28 million European customers the abili...

Zebrafish reveal promising mechanism for healing spinal cord injury

Jul 12, 2012 (SPX)

Yona Goldshmit, Ph.D., is a former physical therapist who worked in rehabilitation centers with spinal cord injury patients for many years before deciding to sw...

Vaccine and antibiotics stabilized so refrigeration is not needed

Jul 12, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a new silk-based stabilizer that, in the laboratory, kept some vaccines and antibiotics s...

New study maps hotspots of human-animal infectious diseases and emerging disease outbreaks

Jul 06, 2012 (SPX)

A new global study mapping human-animal diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and Rift Valley fever finds that an "unlucky" 13 zoonoses are responsible for 2.4 billio...

Jekyll and Hyde bacteria aids or kills, depending on chance

Jul 06, 2012 (SPX)

Living in the guts of worms are seemingly innocuous bacteria that contribute to their survival. With a flip of a switch, however, these same bacteria transform ...

Acoustic tweezers capture tiny creatures with ultrasound

Jul 05, 2012 (SPX)

A device about the size of a dime can manipulate living materials such as blood cells and entire small organisms, using sound waves, according to a team of bioe...

Improving living tissues with 3D printed vascular networks made from sugar

Jul 04, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers are hopeful that new advances in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine could one day make a replacement liver from a patient's own cells, or ...

Seeing inside tissue

Jul 03, 2012 (SPX)

Imagine if doctors could perform surgery without ever having to cut through your skin. Or if they could diagnose cancer by seeing tumors inside the body with a ...

Magnet helps target transplanted iron-loaded cells to key areas of heart

Jul 03, 2012 (SPX)

Optimal stem cell therapy delivery to damaged areas of the heart after myocardial infarction has been hampered by inefficient homing of cells to the damaged sit...

A step toward minute factories that produce medicine inside the body

Jul 02, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists are reporting an advance toward treating disease with minute capsules containing not drugs - but the DNA and other biological machinery for making th...

Infection biology: The elusive third factor

Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) in Munich have identified an enzyme that is involved in a modification pathway that is essential for bacte...

Eating placenta, an age-old practice in China

Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)

After Wang Lan delivered, she brought home a baby girl and her placenta, which she plans to eat in a soup -- adopting an age-old practice in Chinese traditional...

Selenium controls staph on implant material

Jun 25, 2012 (SPX)

Selenium is an inexpensive element that naturally belongs in the body. It is also known to combat bacteria. Still, it had not been tried as an antibiotic coatin...

Peaches, plums, nectarines give obesity, diabetes slim chance

Jun 20, 2012 (SPX)

Peaches, plums and nectarines have bioactive compounds that can potentially fight-off obesity-related diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to new stud...

NIST effort could improve high-tech medical scanners

Jun 18, 2012 (SPX)

A powerful color-based imaging technique is making the jump from remote sensing to the operating room-and a team of scientists* at the National Institute of Sta...

Berkeley Lab scientists help define the healthy human microbiome

Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)

You're outnumbered. There are ten times as many microbial cells in you as there are your own cells. The human microbiome-as scientists call the communities of m...

1 million billion billion billion billion billion billion: Number of undiscovered drugs

Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)

A new voyage into "chemical space" - occupied not by stars and planets but substances that could become useful in everyday life - has concluded that scientists ...