The strife in medicine today is to push science to a level advanced enough to produce replacement bones, tissues, skin and other organs from various types of stem cells. While this is definitely a possibility, work in this field is hindered by the fact that growing a kidney in a bioreactor, for instance, is kind of p... |
14 October 2009
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Sharon Gerecht, an assistant professor of chemical and molecular engineering at JHU's Whiting School of Engineering, is the proud beneficiary of some 460,000 dollars, which she has received in order to continue her research of transforming stem cells into blood vessels, a technology that could potentially help d... |
19 February 2009
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The sweet stuff has been an attraction at fun fairs and various social gatherings for more than 100 years now, but during all this time no one thought that the innocent-looking cotton candy could actually prove one day to be the solution of one of medicine's greatest problems – how to create small and intr... |
12 February 2009
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A new medical breakthrough, made by researchers at the University of Verona, in Italy, revealed the mechanisms that trigger epileptic seizures in mice. Miscoordination between the immune cells and the blood vessels in the brain can lead to the release of compounds that cause the inflammation of the vessels, thus trig... |
25 November 2008
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A new scientific study goes into more depths on how music affects people. Only this time the scientists didn't focus their research on the effects music entices on the brain, but, rather, they wanted to know how the heart reacted to one's favorite music. They discovered that listening to music they enjoyed ... |
12 November 2008
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It seems that the incredible SF journey from "Fantastic Voyage" could become a reality, after all! It's finally here: the miniature robot developed but the Israeli scientists! Yes, you get it right, there was no Japanese, Koreans or Chinese cell brain involved in the project.Anyway, the robotic creature is only ... |
28 June 2007
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