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New malleable 'electronic skin' self-healable, recyclable
Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)
Electronic skin, known as e-skin, is a thin, translucent material that can mimic the function and mechanical properties of human skin. A number of different typ...
3-D Printable Tools May Help Study Astronaut Health
Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)
A new NASA project could help. It aims to develop technology used to study "omics" - fields of microbiology that are important to human health. Omics includes r...
NASA Twins Study confirms preliminary findings
Feb 02, 2018 (SPX)
The Twins Study brought ten research teams from around the country together to accomplish one goal: discover what happens to the human body after spending one y...
Soft, self-healing devices mimic biological muscles
Jan 31, 2018 (SPX)
A central challenge in this field known as "soft robotics" is a lack of actuators or "artificial muscles" that can replicate the versatility and performance of ...
Jumping around for good health
Jan 29, 2018 (ESA)
Physical inactivity increases the risk of poor health. A problem in modern societies, it can lead to reduced quality of life, loss of autonomy, falls and fractu...
Human genome decoded with pocket-sized device
Jan 29, 2018 (AFP)
The breakthrough, detailed in the journal Nature Biotechnology, brings us closer to the day when family doctors will order up genome scans during a regular chec...
'Programmable droplets' could enable high-volume biology experiments
Jan 25, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers view their system as an alternative to the microfluidic devices now commonly used in biological research, in which biological solutions are pump...
First monkeys cloned by process that made Dolly the sheep
Jan 24, 2018 (AFP)
The two long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) named Hua Hua and Zhong Zhong were born at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Neuroscience in...
New robot can help treat rare birth defect
Jan 23, 2018 (SPX)
Dr Dana Damian from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield and her team from Boston Children's Hospital have...
Biodegradable sensor could help doctors monitor serious health conditions
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
The UConn research is featured in the current online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The small, flexible sensor is made of medical...
Potential brain-machine interface for hand paralysis
Jan 16, 2018 (SPX)
Alireza Gharabaghi and colleagues asked participants to imagine opening their hand without actually making any movement while their hand was placed in a device ...
With headbands, sensor socks, wearable tech seeks medical inroads
Jan 12, 2018 (AFP)
With virtual reality and motion-tracking sensors, the tech world is borrowing some of the gadgetry from self-driving cars, gaming and fitness applications and b...
Scientists design bacteria to reflect 'sonar' signals for ultrasound imaging
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
The ultimate goal is to be able to inject therapeutic bacteria into a patient's body - for example, as probiotics to help treat diseases of the gut or as target...
Weightlessness increases astronauts' body temperature
Jan 08, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers from Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin have observed that astronauts run hot when exposed to weightlessness, and that, even at rest, their body t...
Engineers hack cell biology to create 3-D shapes from living tissue
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
By patterning mechanically active mouse or human cells to thin layers of extracellular matrix fibers, the researchers could create bowls, coils, and ripples out...
Growing organs a few ink drops at a time
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Processing the bio-ink and making it stick to itself and hold the desired printed gel structure have been proving particularly difficult especially in inkjet pr...
Scientists engineer 3D shapes from living tissue
Dec 28, 2017 (UPI)
Mammalian cells move and behave in predictable ways. By arranging mechanically active cells into matrix-like layers of fibers, scientists were able to create se...
NASA studies the human body in space for one year to extrapolate for missions to Mars
Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)
Call for Proposals to Address Physiological and Psychological Effects of Spaceflight NASA's Human Research Program is now soliciting proposals for research that...
Scientists create successful mass production system for bioengineered livers
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
A team led by the Cincinnati Children's Center for Stem Cell and Organoid Medicine (CuSTOM) and Yokohama City University in Japan report their findings Dec. 5 i...
NASA Funds Flight for Space Medical Technology on Blue Origin
Dec 15, 2017 (SPX)
The New Shepard reusable vertical takeoff and vertical landing space vehicle was launched with the experimental technology from Blue Origin's West Texas launch ...
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