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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

Math predicts size of clot-forming cells

UC Davis mathematicians have helped biologists figure out why platelets, the cells that form blood clots, are the size and shape that they are. Because platelets are important both for healing wounds and in strokes and other ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanomedicine: Quantum dots appear safe in pioneering study on primates

A pioneering study to gauge the toxicity of quantum dots in primates has found the tiny crystals to be safe over a one-year period, a hopeful outcome for doctors and scientists seeking new ways to battle diseases ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 20, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

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

Earthquake model explains Hydra's regenerative prowess

When the Greek hero Hercules sliced through one of the Lernaean Hydra's nine heads, two grew back in its place. This mythical creature's real life counterparts, a genus of tiny cylindrical animals known as ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows developing organisms can identify and fix abnormalities in head and face

Developmental biologists at Tufts University have identified a "self-correcting" mechanism by which developing organisms recognize and repair head and facial abnormalities. This is the first time that such ...

Biology / Other

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Salmonella infection, but not as we know it

Researchers at Cambridge University have shed new light on a common food poisoning bug. Using real-time video microscopy, coupled with mathematical modelling, they have changed our assumptions about Salmonella and how it ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Magnetic nanochain detonates chemo barrage inside tumors

Medicine-toting nanochains slip into tumors and explode a chemotherapy drug into hard-to-reach cores of cancer, engineers and scientists at Case Western Reserve University report.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lighting up plant cells to engineer biology

Cambridge researchers have developed a new technique for measuring and mapping gene and cell activity through fluorescence in living plant tissue.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough could slash R&D time for next generation of hydrogen fuel cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- It took Thomas Edison two years and over 3,000 experiments to develop a marketable light bulb. It has taken 10 times that long and who-knows-how-many experiments to develop a system that is ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Innovative 3-D designs can more than double solar power generated from a given area

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intensive research around the world has focused on improving the performance of solar photovoltaic cells and bringing down their cost. But very little attention has been paid to the best ways ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

A new shortcut for stem cell programming

Scientists at the Life and Brain Research Center at the University of Bonn, Germany, have succeeded in directly generating brain stem cells from the connective tissue cells of mice.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers uncover new mechanistic insight into mRNA biogenesis and export

A team of EU-funded Spanish and Polish researchers have revealed the structure of a protein complex that is essential for messenger RNA (mRNA) biogenesis and export. Writing in the European Molecular Biology ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tiny fractal trees for solar power

Microscopic "fractal trees" grown from silver could be the basis of a new type of solar cell, say chemists at the University of California, Davis.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Scientists present first model of how buds grow into leaves

Leaves come in all shapes and sizes. Scientists have discovered simple rules that control leaf shape during growth. Using this 'recipe', they have developed the first computer model able to accurately emulate ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast