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New app gives throat cancer patients their voice back
Jan 11, 2019 (AFP)
But the 51-year-old father of four is still chatting away using his own voice rather than the tinny timbre of a robot, thanks to an innovative app developed by ...
Controlling neurons with light but without wires or batteries
Jan 03, 2019 (SPX)
Optogenetics is a biological technique that uses light to turn specific neuron groups in the brain on or off. For example, researchers might use optogenetic sti...
Russian Scientists Reveal How Mars Mission Will Impact Astronauts' Lifespans
Dec 11, 2018 (Sputnik)
The approximate two years it will take to travel to Mars and back will take two and a half years off the lifespan of each astronaut involved in the mission, a r...
HHS and NASA team up to explore health on Earth and in outer space
Dec 10, 2018 (SPX)
Even though my career has kept me Earth-bound, dealing with health and human services at HHS, I've remained fascinated with space. I have no regrets, but, inter...
Reinventing Drug Discovery and Development for Military Needs
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
They will not be realized under the prevailing system of drug discovery and development with its focus on engaging single molecular targets. DARPA created the P...
WHO says creating panel to study gene editing
Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)
"It cannot just be done without clear guidelines," the head of the United Nations health agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told reporters in Geneva. "WHO is p...
What are the ethics of baby gene-editing?
Dec 01, 2018 (AFP)
Should everything that becomes technically possible be carried out? For most ethicists the answer is no -- but the tricky part is whether it can be prevented. "...
China scientist defends gene-editing babies as trial paused
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
He Jiankui told a packed Hong Kong biomedical conference he was "proud" to have successfully altered the DNA of twin girls born to an HIV-positive father, an ap...
Gene-edited babies and cloned monkeys: China tests bioethics
Nov 27, 2018 (AFP)
University professor He Jiankui on Sunday said the DNA of twin girls had been altered to prevent them from contracting HIV, but his claims prompted a fierce bac...
ISS microbes should be monitored to avoid threat to astronaut health
Nov 26, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA investigated five strains of Enterobacter that were isolated from the spac...
Human images from world's first total-body scanner unveiled
Nov 20, 2018 (SPX)
The brainchild of UC Davis scientists Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi, EXPLORER is a combined positron emission tomography (PET) and x-ray computed tomography (C...
Small tissue chips in space a big leap forward for research
Nov 12, 2018 (SPX)
A series of investigations to test tissue chips in microgravity aboard the International Space Station is planned through a collaboration between the National C...
Regeneration science takes a leap forward
Nov 07, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers created a wearable bioreactor attached to the wound site to deliver the progesterone locally for a 24-hour period and observed that it had a las...
How hibernators could help humans treat illness, conserve energy and get to Mars
Oct 29, 2018 (SPX)
To survive times when food is scarce and temperatures are low, some animals enter hibernation - a physiological process that reduces their normal metabolism to ...
Nerve-on-a-chip platform makes neuroprosthetics more effective
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
Stimulating nerves at the right place and the right time is essential for implementing effective treatments, but still a challenge due to implants' inability to...
Ancient enzymes the catalysts for new discoveries
Oct 23, 2018 (SPX)
Professor Elizabeth Gillam from UQ's School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences said the study showed ancient enzymes could survive high temperatures and tha...
Scientists grow functioning human neural networks in 3D from stem cells
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
With the ability to populate a 3D matrix of silk protein and collagen with cells from patients with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other conditio...
Biomaterials with 'Frankenstein proteins' help heal tissue
Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)
The ability to combine these segments into proteins with unique properties will allow researchers to precisely control the properties of new biomaterials for ap...
Russian Scientists Start Research on Impact of Zero-Gravity on Humans
Oct 11, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The research program is set to last over two years. For a long time, we've been conducting so-called dry immersions, since the seventies, but these were mainly...
Animal study suggests deep space travel may significantly damage GI function in astronauts
Oct 02, 2018 (SPX)
Their most recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggests that deep space bombardment by galactic cosmic radiat...
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