Investigators at the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announce the development of a technique that enables them to create extremely small, 3D structures from self-assembling copolymers. The structures may be used to create even smaller chips.
In the field of electronics and micro... [read more >>] In a groundbreaking medical event that will advance life science research and regenerative medicine, experts were recently able to replace a patient's windpipe with a fully synthetic trachea, that was constructed from scratch in the lab.
As a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad r... [read more >>] A newly-engineered bacterium feature deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that does not include thymine, one of its four basic building blocks. Rather, the nucleotide was replaced with the synthetic unit 5-chlorouracil (c), which is usually toxic for other organisms. The four bases that usually make up DNA are adeni... [read more >>] Talk about giving too much power to a single individual. Judge Royce Lamberth is apparently the definition of not to do when in office. He basically put an end to federal funding for stem cell research in the United States, all by himself.In a decision that can be qualified as misguided at best, the Judge m... [read more >>] Any first-grader will tell you that matter can bend and twist light. This is obvious in anything from mirrors to space telescopes, and from lasers to polarizing 3D glasses. But the opposite interaction has almost never been observed, in the sense that experts rarely saw light influence matter in the same wa... [read more >>] A research team that was already involved in developing one of the most groundbreaking medical devices in history is now working on improving its original design, which was made available in the 1980s. The scientists, based at the University of Buffalo (UB), created lithium/silver vanadium oxide batteries t... [read more >>] Bioengineers working in the field of human-tissue repair and doctors trying to get better results with transplants will soon benefit from the advantages provided by the “world's first production model 3D bio-printer.” The new device was produced by Invetech, and the first one has already be... [read more >>] Each year, as Christmas nears, members of the international scientific community start celebrating the season in their own way, by taking the high-tech approach. For instance, this year, experts at the UK National Physics Laboratory (NPL) have created a snowman, which would be nothing special in itself, if ... [read more >>] Despite having a “unitary” sound to their names, carbon nanotubes (CNT) can actually be of varied compositions and structures, as determined by their electronic properties. However, when they are produced in bulk, many types of CNT are generated in the same space, and disentangling something tha... [read more >>] Researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have just recently created the smallest incandescent light bulb in history, which is about 100,000 times narrower and 10,000 times shorter than the one first designed by Thomas Edison. The filament of the new bulb is only 1.4-micrometer long ... [read more >>] |
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