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With their often high-sugar diets and lax brushing habits, many children are particularly susceptible to cavities. An experimental new treatment could help, however, using enzymes to weaken the plaque that forms on the teeth.Continue ReadingCategory: H… Continue reading Enzyme-based treatment could help prevent dental cavities in children
Once it’s been injured, the protective cartilage in our knees and other joints heals very slowly – if at all. A new injectable gel, however, could both reinforce the tissue after it’s been damaged, and encourage new cartilage to grow over top of it.Con… Continue reading Injectable gel found to help reinforce and resurface joint cartilage
Seventy five years ago, the world was introduced to ENIAC, the first ever electronic, programmable, general purpose, digital computer, in a demonstration that not only ushered in the first glimmers of the computer age, but also shaped popular conceptio… Continue reading 75 years ago, the world’s first modern computer made its public debut
Osteoarthritis is a painful, debilitating and fairly common condition that’s hard to slow or stop, so treatment options are mostly limited to reducing pain. But a new study in mice has now found that nanotherapeutic injections into the knee can slow ca… Continue reading Nanoparticle injections into arthritic knees could slow cartilage loss
With antibiotic-resistant bacteria poised to become a huge health problem in the coming decades, the world desperately needs new drugs and treatments. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have engineered new antimicrobial molecules from w… Continue reading Wasp venom peptides show potential as potent antibiotic candidate
Surgery is an indispensable tool when it comes to treating cancer, but those performing the procedures have fine margins to work when cutting away cancerous cells, needing to extract as much as possible while leave healthy tissues intact. University of… Continue reading Glowing dye lights up leftover cancer cells in dogs, and maybe humans
Surgery is an indispensable tool when it comes to treating cancer, but those performing the procedures have fine margins to work when cutting away cancerous cells, needing to extract as much as possible while leave healthy tissues intact. University of… Continue reading Glowing dye lights up leftover cancer cells in dogs, and maybe humans
The unmanned Mars Helicopter drone may be scheduled to launch soon, but it’s still just a single aircraft that will be useless if it conks out. With that in mind, scientists are now looking into an eventual alternative – fleets of tiny, cheap “Nanocard… Continue reading Cheap, simple “Nanocardboard Flyers” could take to Martian skies
Batteries have served us well over decades, but as electronic devices shrink they’re becoming too heavy and inefficient for some uses. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new type of robot that powers itself by “eating” … Continue reading Metal-air scavenger robot “eats” aluminum to power itself
Made famous in the movie Jurassic Park, the raptor dinosaurs are scientifically known as the dromaeosaurids. A newly-discovered member has recently been added the group, and it was likely one of the last raptors to exist.Continue ReadingCategory: Biolo… Continue reading “Last of the raptors” had feathers and a flailing tail