It's all in the math: New tool provides roadmap for cell development
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have created a new tool to describe the many possible ways in which a cell may develop. Rooted in the mathematical field of topology, the tool provides...
View ArticleStudents, doctors develop next-generation surgical implants
Two groups of undergraduate students at Duke University have been creating biomedical devices for their senior design projects with a campus rarity—a titanium 3-D metal printer.
View ArticleBathroom scales will inform about life threatening conditions
Weighing oneself has become one of the most common morning rituals. However, your weight is not the only message that can be delivered by your bathroom scales: the team of researchers at Kaunas...
View ArticleResearchers seek atomistic insights into ferroelectric materials
At first glance, biomedical imaging devices, cell phones, and radio telescopes may not seem to have much in common, but they are all examples of technologies that can benefit from certain types of...
View ArticleUS is still first in science, but China rose fast as funding stalled here &...
American scientific teams still publish significantly more biomedical research discoveries than teams from any other country, a new study shows, and the U.S. still leads the world in research and...
View ArticleResearchers review the state-of-the-art text mining technologies for chemistry
In a recent Chemical Reviews article, Spanish researchers have published the first exhaustive revision of the state-of-the-art methodologies underlying chemical search engines, named entity recognition...
View ArticleNear instantaneous evolution discovered in bacteria
How fast does evolution occur? In certain bacteria, it can occur almost instantaneously, a University at Buffalo molecular biologist has discovered.
View ArticleCloning thousands of genes for massive protein libraries
Discovering the function of a gene requires cloning a DNA sequence and expressing it. Until now, this was performed on a one-gene-at-a-time basis, causing a bottleneck. Scientists at Rutgers...
View ArticleResearcher looking to shed light deeper into the human brain
The inner workings of the human brain have always been a subject of great interest. Unfortunately, it is fairly difficult to view brain structures or intricate tissues due to the fact that the skull is...
View ArticleFive researchers share $500,000 prize for work on gene editing
Five researchers will share a $500,000 medical prize for their roles in developing a groundbreaking gene-editing tool that lets scientists alter the DNA of living cells.
View ArticleGoing nano in the fight against cancer
Imagine being able to see the signs of cancer decades before we can now. URI Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Daniel Roxbury and researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have...
View ArticleHow diseases can be targeted using nanotechnology – and why it's difficult
Scientists are designing materials that are a thousand times smaller than the width of a hair.
View ArticleComputational tool recognizes filamentary sections of neurons and blood vessels
A computational tool is now available for faster and more reliable screening and diagnosis of serious vascular and neurological conditions, including glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and Alzheimer's...
View ArticleHow affirmative action could cure cancer and heart disease
Affirmative action programs are designed to provide access to high-quality higher education for underrepresented minorities, but the Trump administration is targeting these essential programs by...
View ArticleResearchers develop new ultra-fast 3D microscope
A new microscope can capture 3-D images of live organisms in real time. It's called the QIs-scope, an innovation from a spinoff of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), 4D Nature. The microscope can...
View ArticleStreamlined process opens drug development to a new class of steroids
Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a technique to produce synthetic steroids that could pave the way for a cascade of new drug discoveries. The process, published in the journal Nature...
View ArticlePrinted meds could reinvent pharmacies, drug research
A technology that can print pure, ultra-precise doses of drugs onto a wide variety of surfaces could one day enable on-site printing of custom-dosed medications at pharmacies, hospitals and other...
View ArticleOpinion: A war made me realize that the world needs biomedical engineers
It was a sunny and pleasant spring day in Dezful, a small city in the south part of Iran. There were not many people on the street but I remember a young teenager pedalling slowly on his bike. I...
View ArticleA safe optical fiber for delivering light and drugs into the body
A flexible, biodegradable optical fiber that can deliver light into the body for medical applications is the latest work of a collaboration between electrical engineers and biomaterials engineers in...
View ArticleResearchers demonstrate a technique to fabricate safer and more compact...
The lithium-ion batteries that commonly power mobile phones and laptops are ubiquitous and efficient. But they can occasionally explode—as evidenced in the batteries used by Samsung's Galaxy Note 7,...
View Article'Microfluidic' device simulates cancer treatment as effectively as research...
A new technology that simulates tumors has been shown to perform as well as research animals in testing chemotherapy drugs, representing a potential tool for screening drugs before treating a patient.
View ArticleNew algorithm expands use of advanced camera for biological microscopy
A new computer algorithm allows scientists to use a high-performance sensor technology, called scientific complementary metal-oxide semiconductor cameras, for a wide range of biological research.
View ArticleGrads receive James Dyson Award for cancer detection device
What started as a final year engineering class project at McMaster University is now an internationally recognized improved solution for the early detection of melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin...
View ArticleLarge-scale approach reveals imperfect actor in plant biotechnology
A research team led by Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research has harnessed metabolomic technologies to unravel the molecular activities of a key protein that can enable plants to withstand a...
View ArticleDIY: Scientists release a how-to for building a smartphone microscope
Add one more thing to the list of tasks your smartphone can perform. University of Houston researchers have released an open-source dataset offering instructions to people interested in building their...
View ArticleResearchers find simpler way to deposit magnetic iron oxide onto gold nanorods
Researchers from North Carolina State University and MIT have found a simpler way to deposit magnetic iron oxide (magnetite) nanoparticles onto silica-coated gold nanorods, creating multifunctional...
View ArticleFaster, more accurate cancer detection using nanoparticles
Using light-emitting nanoparticles, Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists have invented a highly effective method to detect tiny tumors and track their spread, potentially leading to earlier...
View ArticleResearchers use WWII code-breaking techniques to interpret brain data
Cracking the German Enigma code is considered to be one of the decisive factors that hastened Allied victory in World War II. Starting with clues derived from espionage, computer scientists were able...
View ArticleVirus stamping—a versatile new method for genetic engineering of single cells
Research groups led by Botond Roska at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) and Daniel Müller at the ETH Zurich Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D BSSE) have...
View ArticleStudy finds minority trainees are up, but not minority faculty
Despite increasing numbers of underrepresented minority (URM) trainees in the biomedical sciences, there is a persistent shortage of URM faculty who are involved in basic biomedical research at medical...
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