University of Chicago scientists have pioneered a technique that could one day create a pacemaker that operates using tiny pulses of light.
Bio & Medicine
Dec 12, 2018
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A research team from the University of Göttingen has commissioned a worldwide unique microscope combination at DESY's X-ray source PETRA III to gain novel insights into biological cells. The team led by Tim Salditt and Sarah ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 17, 2018
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Our cells tend to lose their shape as we grow older, contributing to many of the effects we experience as aging. This poses particular problems for the heart, where aging can disrupt the protein network within muscle cells ...
Biotechnology
Jul 17, 2018
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A new and improved version of the 'love hormone' oxytocin has been developed by University of Queensland researchers.
Biochemistry
Dec 12, 2017
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When Mark Martindale decided to trace the evolutionary origin of muscle cells, like the ones that form our hearts, he looked in an unlikely place: the genes of animals without hearts or muscles.
Evolution
Jun 26, 2017
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have contributed to a recent discovery that the heart is filled with the aid of hydraulic forces, the same as those involved in hydraulic ...
General Physics
Mar 2, 2017
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I'll bet you don't have one of these at home.
Engineering
Feb 13, 2017
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Using high-resolution electron microscopy, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have uncovered new details of the structure and function of an intracellular channel that controls the contraction of skeletal ...
Biochemistry
Sep 22, 2016
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Several years ago, biologists discovered a new type of genetic material known as long noncoding RNA. This RNA does not code for proteins and is copied from sections of the genome once believed to be "junk DNA."
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 8, 2016
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The idea of taking apart a rat's heart and transforming it into a tissue-engineered stingray first came to Kevin Kit Parker during a trip to the New England Aquarium with his daughter.
Robotics
Aug 8, 2016
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