News tagged with tissue cells

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New plaster enhances wound healing

(Phys.org) -- Swiss researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a plaster that accelerates wound healing and is easily removed from the wound at any time. Burn victims in particular may profit from this invention ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers find a way to delay aging of stem cells

Stem cells are essential building blocks for all organisms, from plants to humans. They can divide and renew themselves throughout life, differentiating into the specialized tissues needed during development, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mechanical properties of stem cells can foretell what they will become

To become better healers, tissue engineering need a timely and reliable way to obtain enough raw materials: cells that either already are or can become the tissue they need to build. In a new study, Brown ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A cell's first steps: Building a model to explain how cells grow

A collaboration between Lehigh University physicists and University of Miami biologists addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: How do living cells figure out when and where to grow?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineers use droplet microfluidics to create glucose-sensing microbeads

Tiny beads may act as minimally invasive glucose sensors for a variety of applications in cell culture systems and tissue engineering

Technology / Engineering

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shining light on cells' inner workings

(Phys.org) -- Lanrong Bi and Nazmiye Yapici are shining new light on the hidden processes within cells. For their groundbreaking research, Bi, an assistant professor of chemistry at Michigan Technological ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Make or break for cellular tissues

In a study about to be published in the European Physical Journal E, French physicists from the Curie Institute in Paris have demonstrated that the behaviour of a thin layer of cells in contact with an unfavourable substr ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genetic packing: Successful stem cell differentiation requires DNA compaction, study finds

(Phys.org) -- New research findings show that embryonic stem cells unable to fully compact the DNA inside them cannot complete their primary task: differentiation into specific cell types that give rise to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Boron-nitride nanotubes show potential in cancer treatment

A new study has shown that adding boron-nitride nanotubes to the surface of cancer cells can double the effectiveness of Irreversible Electroporation, a minimally invasive treatment for soft tissue tumors in the liver, lung, ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers have a natural sidekick that may resolve the antibiotic-resistant bacteria dilemma

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria continue to be a global concern with devastating repercussions, such as increased healthcare costs, potential spread of infections across continents, and prolonged illness.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Small molecules for neural stem cells

European scientists used chemical genetics to discover molecules that could serve as future regenerative medicines to treat neurological and neurodegenerative diseases.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

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

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

Epigenetic signatures direct the repair potential of reprogrammed cells

A research team has identified epigenetic signatures, markers on DNA that control transient changes in gene expression, within reprogrammed skin cells. These signatures can predict the expression of a wound-healing protein ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast