Scientists from the California NanoSystems Institute and Northwestern University have developed a nanovalve that releases drugs under certain conditions, like different pH levels. The valve can be used for targeted drug delivery to cells differing in their physiological characters or ...
A new method for efficient embryonic stem cell differentiation may contribute to the development of techniques for using stem cells as ‘spare parts’ for body organs and tissues. In a study conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers found ...
Psychologists at The University of Manchester, working together with a team from the University’s School of Computer Science, have developed a powerful super computer to mimic the part of the brain that controls speech and language functions to better understand ...
Mobile phone usage has been associated to a number of diseases; however, causal relations have not been proved yet. A pilot human volunteer study, conducted by the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK), has recently revealed that exposure of ...
A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering in Sankt Ingbert, Germany, led by Dr. Frank Volke, has developed a tiny magnet controlled camera that can take pictures of the upper gastro-intestinal tract. This device is easily controlled from ...
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of science in Israel have engineered a new protein they call Interferon-alpha-2, which is an interferon variant with highly increased biological potency as compared with the natural interferon currently used to treat a number of ...
It has been unclear for many years how embryonic stem cells develop to their final destination as a specific tissue of the grown organism. Recently, a collaborative research group from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the US National Institutes of ...
A research team from the Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) at MIT has confirmed that when DNA repair mechanisms are compromised, chronic inflammation expedites intestine cancer in mice. The results suggest that people with a decreased ability to repair ...
DNA, which provides the genetic code for everything from bacteria to blue whales, is composed of combinations of just four units, or bases. Floyd Romesberg, a chemist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, along with his team of ...
A researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a process to transmit medical images via cellular phones. The development has the potential to provide sophisticated radiological diagnosis and treatment to the majority of the world’s population, who currently ...
