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Pairing quantum dots with fullerenes for nanoscale photovoltaics

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a step toward engineering ever-smaller electronic devices, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have assembled nanoscale pairings of particles ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers inject nanofiber spheres carrying cells into wounds to grow tissue

For the first time, scientists have made star-shaped, biodegradable polymers that can self-assemble into hollow, nanofiber spheres, and when the spheres are injected with cells into wounds, these spheres biodegrade, ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Report: Transplant may have cured man of AIDS

A very unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man living in Berlin of infection with the AIDS virus, but doctors say the approach is not practical for wide use. The man, who is in his 40s, had a blood ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 16

Researchers improve zebrafish cloning methods

A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a new, more efficient way of cloning zebra fish, a breakthrough that could have implications for human health research.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Personalised stem cells back in the spotlight

Scientists on Wednesday said they had made strides in lab research in personalised stem cells, reviving interest in a goal clouded by fraud and ethical storms.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Ink-jet printers inspire scientists to make skin

Ink-jet printing technology has inspired scientists to look for ways to build sheets of skin that could one day be used for grafts in burn victims, experts said Sunday.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2

British drivers asked to become organ donors

Anyone applying for a driving licence in Britain will be asked if they want to join an organ donation scheme under new proposals to boost the number of donors, it was announced on Friday.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 31, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 10

NRL scientists unravel complex quantum dot-dopamine interactions

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in conjunction with the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Ca., recently reported a detailed study of the interactions of water soluble semi-conductor ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seeing the world with new eyes: Biosynthetic corneas restore vision in humans

A new study from researchers in Canada and Sweden has shown that biosynthetic corneas can help regenerate and repair damaged eye tissue and improve vision in humans. The results, from an early phase clinical ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago

The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to "mitochondrial Eve" -- the maternal ancestor of all living humans -- confirms that she lived about 200,000 years ago. The Rice University study ...

Biology / Evolution

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 35 | with audio podcast

Bioengineers create simulator to test blood platelets in virtual heart attacks

A team of bioengineers from the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Medicine and Engineering have trained a computer neural network model to accurately predict how blood platelets would respond to complex conditions ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A light touch: Iron complexes as efficient catalysts for the light-driven extraction of hydrogen from water

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen is a promising alternative energy carrier that can be efficiently converted into electrical energy in fuel cells. One hurdle to the introduction of sustainable hydrogen technology is the fact that ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Tunisian woman expecting 12 babies: reports

A Tunisian woman is due to give birth to 12 babies, which could be a world record, press reports said Tuesday, quoting doctors.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

British girl's heart heals itself after transplant

(AP) -- British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Pigs' connective tissue cells converted into stem cells (w/ Podcast)

(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, proponents have touted the benefits of embryonic stem cell research, but the potential therapies still face hurdles. Side effects such as tumor development, a lack of an effective ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Donor

A donor in general is a person that donates something voluntarily. Usually used to represent a form of pure altruism but sometimes used when the payment for a service is recognised by all parties as representing less than the value of the donation and that the motivation is altruistic. In business law, a donor is someone who is giving the gift, and a donee the person receiving the gift.

Often the word is used as a short for:

In literature:

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