The world’s most powerful medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine is the 9.4 Tesla, positioned at the University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC). Following over three years of trials, the 9.4 Tesla has successfully completed the necessary safety trials. The ...
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham succeeded in using induced stem-cells for gene therapy for the first time. The scientists used cells taken from the tip of a sickle-cell model mouse’s ...
Scientists at the Newcastle University in the U.K. have successfully implanted embryo nucleuses, containing DNA from a mother and a father, into donor eggs. Although the nucleuses of the donor eggs had been removed, they still contained healthy mitochondria, which ...
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have successfully mutated the Ebola virus to create a safe virus strain that can reproduce only in certain engineered cells. The mutated form of the virus can be used to further study the deadly ...
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Aarhus in Denmark can now look into the eyes of the dead and determine, with relatively high precision, when they were born. This is done using a radiocarbon dating method ...
Biologists at the University of Southern California have achieved a 10-fold life span extension in baker’s yeast. By mutating two of the yeast’s genes and restricting its calorie consumption, the researchers accomplished this record longevity with no apparent side effects. ...
In the passing year more than ever before, researchers have come to realize how genetically different we are from each other. Technological advancements have led to significant improvements in genome-sequencing abilities, and as a result – to better understanding of ...
UCLA microbiologist Wenyuan Shi collaborated with the research company C3 Jian to develop a therapeutic orange-flavored lollipop that is actually good for your teeth. Herbal treatments have been used in China for more than 3,000 years. Professor Shi studied and ...
The Australian teenager Demi-Lee Brennan has become the first known transplant patient to switch blood groups – at estimated odds of one in six billion. Her blood type spontaneously changed from O-negative to O-positive following a liver transplant, after her ...
American scientists may have achieved a breakthrough in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The team utilized a gene-therapy technique to deliver a gene encoding the inhibitory GABA molecule to the overactive brain area (subthalamic nucleus) of a dozen of Parkinson’s ...
