A team of researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a method to distinguish between metastatic cancer cells and normal cells. The method utilizes an atomic force microscope (AFM) to measure the softness of a ...

Two Professors at the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem have succeeded in improving the condition of MS and ALS patients by using stem cells transplants. The researchers extracted stem cells from each patient’s bone marrow, cultured them, and then injected ...

A new method for specifically targeting cancer cells with radio-frequency waves was developed by researchers at University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The method uses carbon based nanotubes to enter the cancerous cells and vibrate at ...

In the George Lucas classic Star Wars, hero Luke Skywalker’s arm is severed and amputated during a lightsaber fight and consequently fitted with a bionic arm that he can use as if it were his own limb. At the time ...

Two separate American research groups have been performing similar experiments on ion channels, which are pores in our nerve cells, to identify the channels’ key functional parts. The progress made in this field may lead to development of new drugs ...

A new research from Rockefeller University shows that our immune system cells can detect and destroy cancerous tumor cells in breasts and ovaries. The protein that detects the cancerous cells was identified and can be used in future immunity-based therapeutic ...

A research group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has developed a device for ultra-low field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The device captured its first, blurry shots of a human brain, revealing brain activity and structure. The ...

In collaboration between high-energy physicists from the University of California in Santa Cruz, and neuroscientists from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, a ganglion cell in the retina of primates was found to react to movement. The cell was ...

A new robot developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburg is able to reach distant locations on the surface of a beating heart, and to carry out several operations on the heart’s surface. The HeartLander ...

Researchers from MIT and the University of Rochester have made significant progress towards developing a device that capable of capturing and treating specific cells as they flow through the blood stream. Among other applications, such a device could be used ...