News tagged with living tissue

New field of chemistry has potential for making drugs inside patients -- and more

The traditional way of making medicines from ingredients mixed together in a factory may be joined by a new approach in which doctors administer the ingredients for a medicine separately to patients, and the ingredients combine ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Keeping track to selenium metabolism

Spanish and Danish researchers have developed a method for the in vivo study of the unknown metabolism of selenium, an essential element for living beings. The technique can help clarify whether or not it ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New dye could open the door to in vivo applications of fluorescence anisotropy

(PhysOrg.com) -- US scientists have synthesized a polymethine dye that can be used for fluorescence anisotropy imaging in the near-infrared (NIR) spectral range, making new in vivo applications of this technique ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers peer below the surface of living tissue

A fluorescent protein found in Monterey Bay's crystal jellyfish is helping University of California-Santa Cruz scientists peer deeper into living tissue.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Designed biomaterials mimicking biology: Potential scaffold for muscle regeneration

Engineered artificial proteins that mimic the elastic properties of muscles in living organisms are the subject of an article in Nature magazine to be released May 6.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Glass helps damaged bone regenerate

(PhysOrg.com) -- A prosthodontist from Egypt is helping Lehigh researchers develop bioactive glass that mimics the behavior of living tissue.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1