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It’s still very early days, but the race to develop the first safe and effective mRNA-based influenza vaccine is gathering momentum.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Vaccines, RNA, Biotechnology, Influenza, Duke University, U.S. National … Continue reading Human trial of mRNA universal flu vaccine begins
Glucose fuel cells that can effectively harness the body’s chemical energy and turn it into an electrical charge has been a long-term holy grail for scientists since such potential was first studied back in 1968.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, Scien… Continue reading Sugar-powered teabag-like implant successfully manages type 1 diabetes
It’s one of the most exciting areas of cancer research, but identifying the tumors through blood tests remains difficult, particularly for early-stage detection.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Cancer, Metastasis, Biotechnology, Tumors, … Continue reading This device can easily, cheaply detect cancer cells in a blood sample
Bioelectronics is a burgeoning medical field, but it may have just taken a giant leap forward, with scientists successfully growing electrodes in living tissue, paving the way for fully integrated electronic circuits to treat neurological disorders.Con… Continue reading In a world first, gel triggers electrode creation in living organisms
Japanese scientists have engineered the smallest lifeform that can move on its own. The team introduced bacterial proteins that enable movement into a simple synthetic bacterium that normally cannot move, causing it to change shape and become mobile.Co… Continue reading Synthetic bacteria becomes smallest lifeform that can move around
Japanese scientists have engineered the smallest lifeform that can move on its own. The team introduced bacterial proteins that enable movement into a simple synthetic bacterium that normally cannot move, causing it to change shape and become mobile.Co… Continue reading Synthetic bacteria becomes smallest lifeform that can move around
Transmitting data from medical implants in the body can be tricky, but researchers at Columbia University have now developed a new technique that essentially writes data to ions in human tissue, where it can then be read from a receiver outside the bod… Continue reading New wireless tech lets implants transmit data through ions in tissue
Organ transplants save lives, but complications can arise if the recipient’s immune system rejects the foreign cells. An emerging technique reduces that risk by stripping the donor cells out of the donor organ and replacing them with the recipient’s ow… Continue reading Protein bath helps “recellularize” organs for safer transplants
Scientists working with microfluids as part of biotechnology research often rely on large, clunky machines to manage the samples, but this tinkering could one day be handled by tiny robots that make the process far more efficient. Engineers at the Univ… Continue reading Tiny magnetized robots become “warehouse” workers for biotech research
Organ Chip models enable researchers to directly observe physiological processes and responses. Continue reading Scientists Dosed an Artificial Brain With Meth