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BodyCap's wearable health monitors being used aboard ISS
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
BodyCap has announced that two of its wearable health monitoring devices are currently being used by European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet aboard...
Cow gene study shows why most clones fail
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
It has been 20 years since Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned in Scotland, but cloning mammals remains a challenge. A new study by researchers from the U.S...
Study finds cause of visual impairment in astronauts
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
A visual problem affecting astronauts who serve on lengthy missions in space is related to volume changes in the clear fluid that is found around the brain and ...
Astronaut vision may be impaired by spinal fluid changes: study
Nov 28, 2016 (AFP)
Astronauts may experience blurry vision and impaired eyesight after long spaceflights due to changes in spinal fluid that occur while in microgravity, researche...
New class of drugs holds promise for combating antibiotic resistance
Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)
A new class of drugs that combat antibiotic resistance has been discovered by a University of Oklahoma researcher and team. In the study supported by the Nation...
Researchers discover new antibiotics by sifting through the human microbiome
Nov 17, 2016 (SPX)
Most antibiotics in use today are based on natural molecules produced by bacteria - and given the rise of antibiotic resistance, there's an urgent need to find ...
Biologists give bacteria thermostat controls
Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)
A new helper in the fight against cancer and other diseases of the gut may be genetically altered bacteria that release medicines to tumors or the gut. Now, a n...
Tiny super magnets could be the future of drug delivery
Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)
Microscopic crystals could soon be zipping drugs around your body, taking them to diseased organs. In the past, this was thought to be impossible - the crystals...
Analog series-based scaffolds: a new definition that may aid medicinal chemistry
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
While the Bemis-Murcko approach to scaffold analysis has remained the go-to definition for computational medicinal chemistry for the past few decades, it is not...
Laser particles could provide sharper images of tissues
Nov 08, 2016 (SPX)
A new imaging technique developed by scientists at MIT, Harvard University, and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) aims to illuminate cellular structures in d...
For the first time, brain surface stimulation provides 'touch' feedback to direct movement
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
In the quest to restore movement to people with spinal cord injuries, researchers have focused on getting brain signals to disconnected nerves and muscles that ...
Restoring the sense of touch in amputees using natural signals of the nervous system
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Case Western Reserve University have found a way to produce realistic sensations of touch in two human amputees by d...
How nanoscience will improve our health and lives in the coming years
Nov 01, 2016 (SPX)
Nanoscience research involves molecules that are only 1/100th the size of cancer cells and that have the potential to profoundly improve the quality of our heal...
Quantum leap in the reliability of mass spectrometry-based proteomics
Oct 27, 2016 (SPX)
Modern mass spectrometry systems enable scientists to routinely determine the quantitative composition of cells or tissue samples. However, different analysis s...
Feeling the Rhythm
Oct 26, 2016 (SPX)
Many astronauts play instruments, and some have even made music in space. Few have danced in space, though, perhaps because crew members find it difficult to ta...
3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensors
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturin...
Brand-new cochlear implant technology born from frictional electricity
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
DGIST Professor Hongsoo Choi(Department of Robotics Engineering) and his research team developed the world's first artificial basilar membrane that mimics the c...
DARPA Helps Paralyzed Man Feel Again Using a Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
A DARPA-funded research team has demonstrated for the first time in a human a technology that allows an individual to experience the sensation of touch directly...
Watching the brain in action
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
Watching millions of neurons in the brain interacting with each other is the ultimate dream of neuroscientists! A new imaging method now makes it possible to ob...
In a first, brain computer interface helps paralyzed man feel again
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
Imagine being in an accident that leaves you unable to feel any sensation in your arms and fingers. Now imagine regaining that sensation, a decade later, throug...
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