(PhysOrg.com) -- As a high school sophomore, Asad Moten read a news story about engineering new organs for patients waiting for a transplant, and decided to start his own tissue-engineering project.
Biochemistry
Mar 5, 2009
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(AP) -- It would be easier to gauge Apple CEO Steve Jobs' current medical problems if he had said more about the ones he has faced in the past.
Business
Jan 18, 2011
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University of Michigan scientists say they have uncovered a fundamentally new mechanism that holds in check aggressive immune cells that can attack the body's own cells. The findings open a new avenue of research for future ...
Biochemistry
Sep 1, 2009
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Scientists from our university and Berlin have identified a type of human stem cell that appears to be "naïve-like" – able to develop into any type of cell. The discovery of this cell type could potentially have a large ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 16, 2014
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Using human blood cells, Brazilian researchers have obtained hepatic organoids ("mini-livers") that perform all of the liver's typical functions, such as producing vital proteins, storing vitamins and secreting bile, among ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 18, 2019
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Fungal infections have received a frenzy of attention thanks to the popularity of HBO's "The Last of Us." The show depicts a fungal pandemic caused by the real-life zombie-ant fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. It imagines ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 17, 2023
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When it comes to gene expression - the process by which our DNA provides the recipe used to direct the synthesis of proteins and other molecules that we need for development and survival - scientists have so far studied one ...
Biotechnology
Mar 4, 2015
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(Phys.org) —A potentially lethal fungal infection appears to gain virulence by being able to anticipate and disarm a hostile immune attack in the lungs, according to findings by researchers at Duke Medicine.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 14, 2013
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Ever since an ordinary office inkjet printer had its ink cartridges swapped out for a cargo of cells about 10 years ago and sprayed out cell-packed droplets to create living tissue, scientists and engineers have never looked ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 1, 2011
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Using nanoparticles, Yale researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that could reduce organ transplant complications by hiding the donated tissue from the recipient's immune system.
Bio & Medicine
Aug 4, 2017
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