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UCLA engineers develop miniaturized 'warehouse robots' for biotechnology applications
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
The robots are disc-shaped magnets about 2 millimeters in diameter, designed to work together to move and manipulate droplets of blood or other fluids, with pre...
How scientists will track astronauts' mental performance on mars missions
Feb 26, 2020 (SPX)
A recent all-Canadian neuroscience research team spent seven days in the Mars Habitat (the Hab) at the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) ...
Magnet-controlled bioelectronic implant could relieve pain
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
Their breakthrough may make possible imbedded devices like a spinal cord-stimulating unit with a battery-powered magnetic transmitter on a wearable belt. The in...
Bacteria on the International Space Station no more dangerous than earthbound strains
Feb 20, 2020 (SPX)
Shortly after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) installed the water dispenser aboard the ISS in 2009, periodic sampling showed that two b...
Scientists announce 'breakthrough' atomic map of coronavirus
Feb 19, 2020 (AFP)
It came as the death toll from the COVID-19 virus jumped past 2,000, almost all of them in mainland China where 74,185 cases of infection have been confirmed si...
Body work: Russia's 'biohackers' push boundaries
Feb 18, 2020 (AFP)
Alexei Rautkin, a 24-year-old programmer in a hoodie, is having a chip inserted in his hand so he can open the door to his office without swiping a card. "It's ...
Replacing animal testing with synthetic cell scaffolds
Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)
Smitha Rao's cell scaffolding research aims to replace animal testing in cancer research with electrospun synthetics. Rao, assistant professor of biomedical eng...
Superior 'bio-ink' for 3D printing pioneered
Feb 11, 2020 (SPX)
The study was published in the journal Biointerphases. Bioengineered tissues show promise in regenerative, precision and personalized medicine; product developm...
From Antarctica to space: telemedicine at the limit
Jan 31, 2020 (ESA)
The development of these devices was supported by ESA and it is thought they could be used by astronauts and medical teams during future exploration missions. T...
Iron nanorobots show their true mettle
Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)
Co-developed by KAUST researchers, these nanowires release their drug cargo inside cancer cells, while also punching holes in the cell's membrane and delivering...
First reported occurrence and treatment of spaceflight medical risk in orbit
Jan 06, 2020 (SPX)
The paper details a case of stagnant blood flow resulting in a clot in the internal jugular vein of an astronaut stationed on the International Space Station. T...
UNC expert helps treat astronaut's blood clot during NASA mission
Jan 06, 2020 (SPX)
Moll was the only non-NASA physician NASA consulted when it was discovered that an astronaut aboard the ISS had a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) - or blood clot - i...
China jails scientist who gene-edited babies
Dec 30, 2019 (AFP)
He Jiankui, who shocked the scientific community last year by announcing the birth of twin girls whose genes had allegedly been altered to confer immunity to HI...
International Space Station computer gets a heart transplant
Dec 20, 2019 (ESA)
The Data Management System (DMS) computers in the Russian Zvezda module were built over 20 years ago by what is now Airbus. Two fault-tolerant computers collect...
Astrophysics and AI may offer key to early dementia diagnosis
Dec 18, 2019 (SPX)
Currently, only two-thirds of people with dementia in the UK receive a formal diagnosis, and many receive it late in the disease process, meaning that a large n...
Inner to outer space: studying biological changes with plants on rockets
Dec 12, 2019 (SPX)
Answering such fundamental research questions is essential to our understanding of the impact of space travel on humans and other organisms. Two researchers fro...
Print me an organ - Why are we not there yet?
Dec 12, 2019 (SPX)
Instead of waiting for a suitable donor or having the risk of their body rejecting a transplanted organ, 3D printed organs allow patients to have a customised o...
Space travel can make the gut leaky
Nov 27, 2019 (SPX)
A research team led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has found that simulated microgravity, such as that encountered in spa...
Researchers set to decode biological circuitry that drives peak performance and resilience
Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)
"DARPA created the MBA program to help service members understand and achieve their innate biological potential as it relates to performance and resilience," sa...
Dangerous health risk to human spaceflight to Mars revealed in new NASA study
Nov 19, 2019 (Sputnik)
A grave new health threat has been identified that could throw a spanner in the works for scientists as they endeavour to make mankind's long journeys through t...
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