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Cell on a Chip

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 - 14:11:53 - Anuradha Menon

The drug heparin is widely used to prevent blood from clotting in medical procedures ranging from dialysis to open-heart surgery. With a $6 billion...

iPod Saves Teenager from Lightning Strike

Saturday, June 20th, 2009 - 16:22:52 - Anuradha Menon

This iPod saved its owner from shuffling into the Great Beyond. Sophie Frost, 14, survived a lightning strike this week when the wires in her...

Nanoscopic Changes to Cells Reveal Cancer

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 - 10:41:58 - Anuradha Menon

A team of researchers led by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer has developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen...

Baffling the Body into Accepting Transplants

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 12:05:38 - Anuradha Menon

An unexpected discovery made by a Sydney scientist has potential to alter the body's response to anything it perceives as not ‘self’, such as a...

Umbilical Cord May Help Build Heart Valves

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 - 14:07:09 - Anuradha Menon

Children with heart defects may someday receive perfectly-matched new heart valves built using stem cells from their umbilical cord blood, according...

New Map IDs the Core of the Human Brain

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 - 12:58:36 - Anuradha Menon

An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex...

Injured Embryo Can Regenerate Itself

Saturday, June 28th, 2008 - 16:26:14 - Anuradha Menon

More than 80 years have passed since the German scientist Hans Spemann conducted his famous experiment that laid the foundations for the field of...

Artificial Vascular System to Help Grow Tissues
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 - Asaf Peer
Researchers from Cornell University have engineered micro-channels within a water-based gel that can act as a vascular...