News tagged with biomedicine

Umbilical cord could be new source of plentiful stem cells, researchers say

Stem cells that could one day provide therapeutic options for muscle and bone disorders can be easily harvested from the tissue of the umbilical cord, just as the blood that goes through it provides precursor cells to treat ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How do you say grid computing in Spanish?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Encouraged by the success of grid computing in Europe, scientists there set out to help their Latin American colleagues develop grid capability. The result today is a thriving trans-Atlantic collaboration. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Virus filters for medical diagnosis

In biomedicine and biotechnology the smallest, complex, compound sample quantities must be reliably processed. Microsystems with new mechanisms of action for pumping, filtering and separating will manage this ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Unusually large family of green fluorescent proteins discovered in marine creature

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered a family of green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) in a primitive sea animal, along ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Single factor converts adult stem cells into embryonic-like stem cells

The simple recipe scientists earlier discovered for making adult stem cells behave like embryonic-like stem cells just got even simpler. A new report in the February 6th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, ...

Biology /

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0


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