News tagged with biomedicine

Building crystalline materials from nanoparticles and DNA

Nature is a master builder. Using a bottom-up approach, nature takes tiny atoms and, through chemical bonding, makes crystalline materials, like diamonds, silicon and even table salt. In all of them, the properties of the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Animal cells communicate electrically over long distances via nanotubes

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has discovered that animal cells communicate electrically with each other via tunneling nanotubes (TNTs). The membrane tubes contain a protein called F-actin and connect cells ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

FANCM plays key role in inheritance

Scientists of KIT and the University of Birmingham have identified relevant new functions of a gene that plays a crucial role in Fanconi anemia, a life-threatening disease.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Somatic stem cells obtained from skin cells for first time ever

Breaking new ground, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, have succeeded in obtaining somatic stem cells from fully differentiated somatic cells. Stem ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New way to shape thin gel sheets proposed

Inspired by nature's ability to shape a petal, and building on simple techniques used in photolithography and printing, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a new tool for ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Just the two of us: Stable dinucleotide-RNA duplexes show promise in biotechnology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nucleic acid technology has revolutionized the field of biomedicine, as it can be effectively utilized in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of genetic diseases The efficacy of most ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

First description of a triple DNA helix in a vacuum

A team of researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have managed for the first time to extract trustworthy structural information ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

New discoveries in cell aging

A group of researchers led by the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have achieved to quantify with precision the effect of protein aggregation on cell aging ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists solve ricin riddle using new technology

A protein that controls how the deadly plant poison and bioweapon ricin kills has finally been identified by a team of Austrian researchers in a new study. With a combination of stem cell biology and modern ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers describe a new genetic program that converts static cells into mobile invasive cells

Researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have identified the gene GATA 6 as responsible for epithelial cells -which group together and are static- losing adhesion and moving ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Turning agents of disease into tools for health and better living

Viruses that attack plants, insects, mammals and bacteria are proving effective platforms for delivering medicines and imaging chemicals to specific cells in the body, as building blocks for tiny battery electrodes and computer ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Technology to screen for synbio abuses lags

Amid growing concern that synthetic life sciences pose biosecurity and biosafety risks, scrutiny is increasing into the burgeoning DNA sequence trade. Research published today in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists looks ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Going live to the beating heart

German scientists succeed in filming organs and joints in real time using magnetic resonance imaging.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biomedicine

Biomedicine is a branch of medical science that applies biological and other natural-science principles to clinical practice,*. Biomedicine, i.e. medical research, involves the study of (patho-)physiological processes with methods from biology, chemistry and physics. Approaches range from understanding molecular interactions to the study of the consequences at the in vivo level. These processes are studied with the particular point of view of devising new strategies for diagnosis and therapy.**

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