The quest to derive energy from wind may soon be getting some help from California Institute of Technology fluid-dynamics expert John Dabiri -- and a school of fish.
May 17, 2010
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Like a motorist who knows that the "check engine" light indicates something important but ill-defined is happening, neuroscientists have relied heavily on an incompletely understood technology called functional magnetic resonance ...
May 16, 2010
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In what could be a shot in the arm for adoptive immunotherapy, new Stanford University research shows promise in enhancing and controlling the growth of T cells in living mice and in human cell cultures, potentially overcoming ...
Apr 26, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research, led by Professor Mark Kendall, from UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, demonstrates that a vaccine delivered by a Nanopatch induces a similarly protective immune ...
Apr 22, 2010
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Understanding how mixtures of proteins assemble and how to manipulate them in the laboratory has many exciting biomedical applications, such as providing scaffolds for the engineering of tissues that can replace diseased ...
Apr 20, 2010
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Recently, brain researchers have gained a powerful new way to troubleshoot neural circuits associated with depression, Parkinson's disease and other conditions in small animals such as rats. They use an optogenetics technology, ...
Mar 18, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a matter of months, bioengineer Markus Covert, PhD, expects to unveil the first "whole-cell" computer model of an organism.
Feb 22, 2010
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have obtained the first recordings of brain-cell activity in an actively flying fruit fly.
Feb 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at UC Berkeley have created smart nanoprobes that may one day be used in the battle against cancer to selectively seek out and destroy tumor cells, as well as report back on the ...
Feb 01, 2010
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Researchers at UC San Diego who last year genetically engineered bacteria to keep track of time by turning on and off fluorescent proteins within their cells have taken another step toward the construction ...
Jan 20, 2010
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Regenerative medicine therapies often require the growth of functional, stable blood vessels at the site of an injury. Using synthetic polymers called hydrogels, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...
Dec 21, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the promises of nanomedicine is the design of tiny particles that can home in on diseased cells and get inside them. Nanoparticles can carry drugs into cells and tag cells for MRI and other diagnostic ...
Dec 08, 2009
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In work that someday may lead to the development of novel types of nanoscale electronic devices, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has combined DNA's talent ...
Nov 10, 2009
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Over the last 20 years, the sequencing of the human genome, along with related organisms, has represented one of the largest scientific endeavors in the history of mankind. The information collected from genome ...
Nov 09, 2009
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Clemson bioengineer Frank Alexis is designing new ways to target drugs and reduce the chances for side effects.
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