If you were ever an avid fan of Star Trek, you may find the following invention very familiar. A Georgia Tech research team has developed a portable imaging palm gadget capable of quick and unobtrusive scanning of subsurface tissues. The ...

Novartis, an international drug company, has recently developed a vaccine against the meningococcal B strain. This is the first vaccination to be developed for this often deadly disease that usually affects young children and infants. This new vaccine has the ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California have demonstrated a way to manufacture miniscule containers that could be used to deliver precise micro or even nano quantities of drugs. A half-open micro-container (Credit: ISI) An overdose of even ordinarily beneficial ...

Researchers at Harvard’s Whitesides Research Group may have found a way to make microfluidics technology much cheaper by taking advantage of the natural movement of liquid through paper. Hopefully, their work will lead to the creation of disposable diagnostic tests, ...

A research team led by Professor Zafar Bashir at Bristol University, UK has identified molecular and cellular mechanisms important for recognition and memory. In an experiment conducted on rats, the team demonstrated that disrupting the brain’s ability to change, causes ...

A research team led by Shuichi Takayama at the University of Michigan has developed a new technology for growing lung cells outside the body. The scientists developed a tiny device, named “lung on a chip”, which causes the cells on ...

Researchers at UCLA have successfully derived mice skin cells into a variety of heart tissue and blood cells. All the cells composing the heart were created out of stem cells originally generated from the mice’s skin. This research could contribute ...

Early detection and diagnosis of heart attacks may now be possible using only a few drops of saliva. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have created a sensor device, called nano-bio-chip, which can detect specific essential biomarkers that ...

Scientists taking part in the European project BIOTEX have developed prototype biosensors, which can be integrated into special fabrics. The sensors are capable of measuring sodium, chloride, and potassium in miniscule volumes of sweat samples on the skin. An added ...

John Kitching, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado is developing tiny magnetic sensors named atomic magnetometers. The new sensors are extremely sensitive, capable of detecting miniscule magnetic fields. Mass production of these magnometers ...