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Device Simulates Filtering and Ion Transport Functions of Human Kidney

May 28, 2020
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Fayetteville, AR — Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a device that simulates the blood filtering and ion transport functions of the human kidney. The technology...

Preclinical Study Offers Hope for Hirschsprung’s Disease

May 24, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — Babies with Hirschsprung’s disease are born with an incomplete or absent gut nervous system. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles investigator Dr. Tracy Grikscheit, runs a...

New Urine Testing Method Holds Promise for Kidney Stone Sufferers

May 24, 2020
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University Park, PA — An improved urine-testing system for people suffering from kidney stones inspired by nature and proposed by researchers from Penn State and Stanford University may enable patients...

New Wearable Sensor Tracks Vitamin C Levels in Sweat

May 20, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A team at the University of California San Diego has developed a wearable, non invasive Vitamin C sensor that could provide a new, highly personalized option for users to track their...

Artificial Pieces of Brain Use Light to Communicate With Real Neurons

May 20, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — A prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces an injured or missing part of the body. You can easily imagine a stereotypical pirate with a wooden leg or Luke Skywalker’s famous...

A New, Highly Sensitive Chemical Sensor Uses Protein Nanowires

May 13, 2020
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Amherst, MA — Writing in the journal NanoResearch, a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reports this week that they have developed bioelectronic ammonia gas sensors that are among the...

Scientists Shed Light on Essential Carbon-Fixing Machinery in Bacteria

May 7, 2020
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Boulder, CO — Scientists have been studying cyanobacteria and its many potential applications for decades, from cutting CO2 emissions to creating a substitute for oil-based plastics, but there wasn’t...

‘Breathable’ Electronics Pave the Way for More Functional Wearable Tech

May 1, 2020
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Raleigh, NC — Engineering researchers have created ultrathin, stretchable electronic material that is gas permeable, allowing the material to “breathe.” The material was designed specifically...

Assessing Kidney Quality Before Transplantation Using Photoacoustic Imaging

May 1, 2020
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Toronto, ON, Canada — When kidney transplants first came into practice in the 1950s, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) could finally picture freedom from the unrelenting routine of blood-cleansing...

Spinal Cord Gives Bio-Bots Walking Rhythm

April 29, 2020
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Champaign, IL — Miniature biological robots are making greater strides than ever, thanks to the spinal cord directing their steps. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers developed...

Personalized Microrobots Swim Through Biological Barriers, Deliver Drugs to Cells

April 8, 2020
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Washington, DC — Tiny biohybrid robots on the micrometer scale can swim through the body and deliver drugs to tumours or provide other cargo-carrying functions. The natural environmental sensing tendencies...

Creating Stretchable Thermoelectric Generators

March 25, 2020
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Linköping, Sweden — For the first time, a soft and stretchable organic thermoelectric module has been created that can harvest energy from body heat. The breakthrough was enabled by a new composite...

Building a Better Botox

March 18, 2020
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Boston, MA — Botulinum toxins — a.k.a. botox — have a variety of uses in medicine: to treat muscle overactivity in overactive bladder, to correct misalignment of the eyes in strabismus,...

Engineered Bone Marrow Cells Slow Growth of Prostate and Pancreatic Cancer Cells

March 9, 2020
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Baltimore, MD — In experiments with mice, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have slowed the growth of transplanted human prostate and pancreatic cancer cells by introducing...

Scientists Develop New Method to Distinguish Freshly Made Transcripts From Old Transcripts

March 6, 2020
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) developed a new method to assess how production and degradation of gene transcripts are regulated. In this study, published in...

Biomaterial Discovery Enables 3D Printing of Tissue-Like Vascular Structures

March 4, 2020
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Nottingham, UK — An international team of scientists have discovered a new material that can be 3D printed to create tissue-like vascular structures. In a new study published today in Nature Communications,...

New Technique Allows Scientists to ‘Listen in’ on Cancer Cells

February 21, 2020
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London, UK —Scientists have a developed a new technique to decipher how millions of individual cells are communicating with each other in miniature tumours grown in the lab, known as organoids, according...

Smart Contact Lens Sensor Developed for Point-Of-Care Eye Health Monitoring

February 19, 2020
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Beijing, China — A research group led by Prof. DU Xuemin from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a “smart” contact lens...

Researchers Develop Genome the Size of a Minimal Cell That Can Copy Itself

February 19, 2020
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Munich, Germany —The field of synthetic biology does not only observe and describe processes of life but also mimics them. A key characteristic of life is the ability to ability for replication, which...

Replacing Animal Testing With Synthetic Cell Scaffolds

February 12, 2020
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Houghton, MI — In the field of cancer research, the idea that scientists can disrupt cancer growth by changing the environment in which cancerous cells divide is growing in popularity. The primary...

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