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New material will allow abandoning bone marrow transplantation
Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)
A special bioactive coating of the material helped to increase the rate of division of bone cells by 3 times. In the future, it can allow to abandon bone marrow...
Dormant viruses reactivate during spaceflight
Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)
NASA's rapid viral detection systems and ongoing treatment research are beginning to safeguard astronauts - and immunocompromised patients on Earth, too. Herpes...
China's finds microgravity promotes iPS cells regenerative potential
Mar 12, 2019 (XNA)
During space travel, the human body is in a state of weightlessness due to minimal gravitational pull from the earth, which is known as microgravity. Exposure t...
Effects of spaceflight on heart cell formation from stem cells
Mar 08, 2019 (SPX)
The robust cardiomyocyte formation at microgravity, which lasted for 10 days, is described in an article published in Stem Cells and Development, a peer-reviewe...
A prosthetic that restores the sense of where your hand is
Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)
The scientists managed to reproduce the feeling of proprioception, which is our brain's capacity to instantly and accurately sense the position of our limbs dur...
China eyes bans for rogue scientists after gene-editing uproar
Feb 27, 2019 (AFP)
The announcement comes as He Jiankui's controversial experiment continues to transfix the scientific community, with researchers saying the procedure had the po...
Intelligent Healing for Complex Wounds
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
However, DARPA believes that recent advances in biosensors, actuators, and artificial intelligence could be extended and integrated to dramatically improve tiss...
Engineers harvest heart's energy to power life-saving devices
Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)
Using a dime-sized invention developed by engineers at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, the kinetic energy of the heart can be converted into elec...
Simply shining light on dinosaur metal compound kills cancer cells
Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)
The treatment of cancer using light, called Photodynamic therapy, is based on chemical compounds called photosensitizers, which can be switched on by light to p...
Artificial skin could give superhuman perception
Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)
Our skin's ability to perceive pressure, heat, cold, and vibration is a critical safety function that most people take for granted. But burn victims, those with...
Brain condition related to long-term spaceflights needs more attention, data
Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)
Roberts, who previously published a groundbreaking research study in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2017 on this topic, and Petersen remain concerned ab...
Superpowered salamander may hold the key to human regeneration
Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Kentucky have taken this fantasy one step closer to reality, announcing that they have assembled the genome of the axolotl, a sa...
Environmental protection in outer space
Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)
Claudius Gros, professor for theoretical physics at Goethe University, has now investigated the degree to which the norms for the protection of planets can be d...
Prolonged spaceflight could weaken astronauts' immune systems
Jan 24, 2019 (SPX)
"What NASA and other space agencies are concerned about is whether or not the immune system is going to be compromised during very prolonged spaceflight mission...
China clones gene-edited monkeys to aid disorder research
Jan 24, 2019 (AFP)
The claim, detailed in two reports published in a Chinese science journal, is the latest in a series of biomedical advances in the country, some of which have f...
China's second gene-edited foetus is 12-14 weeks old: scientist
Jan 22, 2019 (AFP)
Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the scientific community after revealing that he had successfully altered the DNA of twin girls born in November to prevent...
Second woman carrying gene-edited baby in China
Jan 21, 2019 (AFP)
He Jiankui shocked the scientific community last year after announcing he had successfully altered the genes of twin girls born in November to prevent them from...
How to rapidly image entire brains at nanoscale resolution
Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)
Their technique, called expansion microscopy, worked well on single cells or thin tissue sections imaged in conventional light microscopes, but Boyden's team wa...
NYSCF scientists make strides in creation of clinical-grade bone
Jan 17, 2019 (SPX)
In their study, the team identified two types of growth media that could support effective expansion of mesenchymal progenitor (MP) cells from stem cells in a c...
Aging Faster in Space to Age Better on Earth
Jan 16, 2019 (SPX)
"The objective is to expose the mice to microgravity and track physiological changes," said Michael S. Roberts, deputy chief scientist at the U.S. National Labo...
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