Food industries are now turning meat left-over into high-protein content ingredients for food supplements, or to be added to processed food. But a EU-wide regulation covering them is still lacking.

Chemistry - Other

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Since the heart is such a delicate and critical organ, clinicians usually opt not to intervene with the dead cells that remain after a heart attack or cardiac disease. "But we think that all heart attacks deserve some kind ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

May 17, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

A team of bioengineers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is the first to report creating artificial heart tissue that closely mimics the functions of natural heart tissue through the use of human-based ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Apr 29, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

A new study by researchers at UCLA suggests that the elasticity of the physical matrix used for growing heart muscle cells outside of the body may be critical to the success of cardiac tissue engineering. The results were ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

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(Medical Xpress)—A team from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany is doing work in force-feedback technology targeted for mobile devices such as smartphones. Their work is an easy fit into the lives ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Feb 04, 2013 3.5 / 5 (4) 2 |

On January 30, 2013 ACS Nano published a study by Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, MASc, Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Biomedical Engineering, detailing the creation of innovative cardiac patches that utilize nanotechnology to enh ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Jan 31, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—PFC supported scientists at JQI have created the first controllable atomic circuit that functions analogously to a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) and allows operators to ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Nov 29, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 1 |

(Phys.org)—Scientists have created the first controllable atomic circuit that functions analogously to a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) and allows operators to select a particular quantum ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Nov 07, 2012 5 / 5 (8) 0 |

Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have taken the first steps to create neural-like stem cells from muscle tissue in animals. Details of the work are published in two complementary studies published in the September ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Oct 12, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Cancer, diabetes, and excess body weight have one thing in common: they alter cellular metabolism. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and the Medical University ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Oct 12, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Many robotic designs take nature as their muse: sticking to walls like geckos, swimming through water like tuna, sprinting across terrain like cheetahs. Such designs borrow properties from nature, using engineered materials ...

Technology - Engineering

Aug 30, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 2 |

Researchers are hopeful that new advances in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine could one day make a replacement liver from a patient's own cells, or animal muscle tissue that could be cut into steaks ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Jul 01, 2012 4.9 / 5 (12) 1 |

(Phys.org) -- Much is known about the dinosaurs that walked on 4 legs like Stegosaurus and Triceratops, but their stance has been a topic of debate, until now. Scientists at the Natural History Museum have ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jun 21, 2012 4.4 / 5 (9) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most primitive known vertebrate and therefore the ancestor of all descendant vertebrates, including humans, discovered.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 05, 2012 4.7 / 5 (23) 18 |

Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 27, 2012 4.8 / 5 (38) 22 |