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Sight for sore eyes (w/Video)

In a world-first breakthrough, University of New South Wales (UNSW) medical researchers have used stem cells cultured on a simple contact lens to restore sight to sufferers of blinding corneal disease.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0




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Physicists devise method for building artificial tissue

New York University physicists have developed a method that models biological cell-to-cell adhesion that could also have industrial applications.

Physics / General Physics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers solve structure of human protein critical for silencing genes

In a study published in the journal Cell on May 24, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists describe the three-dimensional atomic structure of a human protein bound to a piece of RNA that "guides" the pr ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find a way to delay aging of stem cells

Stem cells are essential building blocks for all organisms, from plants to humans. They can divide and renew themselves throughout life, differentiating into the specialized tissues needed during development, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers prove new circuit pattern-design process, see promise for 14 nanometer design with directed self-assembly

(Phys.org) -- Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) announced that they have successfully created contact hole patterns for a wide variety of practical logic and memory devices ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

First direct observation of oriented attachment in nanocrystal growth

Berkeley Lab researchers have reported the first direct observation of nanoparticles undergoing oriented attachment, the critical step in biomineralization and the growth of nanocrystals. A better understanding ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dopant gives graphene solar cells highest efficiency yet

(Phys.org) -- By taking advantage of graphene’s favorable electrical and optical properties, and then adding an organic dopant, researchers have achieved the highest power conversion efficiency yet for ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 14 | with audio podcast feature

Bacteria alive (more or less) in 86-million-year-old seabed clay

(Phys.org) -- A new study by scientists from Denmark and Germany has found live bacteria trapped in red clay deposited on the ocean floor some 86 million years ago. The bacteria use miniscule amounts of oxygen ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Plump up the clay: Carbon dioxide moves into and expands a common mineral in carbon sequestration caprocks

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have direct evidence that high-pressure carbon dioxide or CO2 migrates into the clay montmorillonite causing it to expand, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Measuring transient x-rays with lobster eyes

(Phys.org) -- A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astronauts safe on the International ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

UK surveillance could yield window into lives

(AP) -- British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails."

Technology / Internet

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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