POSTS TAGGED AS bioscience

Growing Heart Tissue in China

Because drugs can only slow the pace of heart failure and also because transplantable hearts are in short supply, [MORE]

“Molecular Imprinting” for Plastic Antibodies

UC-Irvine chemistry professor Kenneth Shea has lead research in mice studies that shows two different fluorescent imaging probes-one attached [MORE]

Bayer’s Medical Device Coating Business

While this news piece from Bayer MaterialSciences LLC (Pittsburgh) amounts to an advertisement, it does mention in interesting new [MORE]

Biology of Tasting Salt

In 1932, plant geneticist Albert Blakeslee and DuPont chemist Arthur Fox determined that taste acuity was a Mendelian trait [MORE]

Self-Balancing Centrifuge Rotor

In a clinical laboratory, loading specimens into a centrifuge can be time consuming because different quantities have to be [MORE]

DNA Sequencing Via Microfluidics

David Weitz and physicist colleagues at Harvard have done preliminary work that shows DNA can be sequenced using a [MORE]

Wearable Impact Sensor for Athletes

Ionic polymer metallic composites are novel materials that generate an electrical current during compression.  Researchers at the University of [MORE]

How Spiders Store their Silk-Making Proteins

Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, researchers at two German universities were able to unravel the process by which spiders [MORE]

Micromasonry for Artificial Tissue Engineering

Micromasonry is the term researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology have coined for encapsulating living [MORE]

Untangling Brain Pathways of Pretzel Syndrome

The mTOR pathway (named for the mammalian target of rapamycin), keys on a protein kinase that is involved in [MORE]

Monell Chemical Senses Center

There’s more than one way to explore personalized medicine, and researchers at the Monell Center in Philadelphia are doing [MORE]

Your Microbiome

A human genome has about 25k genes, but the “acquired human microbiome,” in the trillions of microbial cells that inhabit [MORE]

Synthetic Muscles

A protein-based biomaterial that mimics the structure and function of titin in natural muscle tissue has been developed at [MORE]

A Really Smart Biosensor Chip

Protein scientists in Germany and Japan have developed a new biochip that can detect proteins for specific diseases and [MORE]

Osteoarthritis Biomarkers

In studies of twins at St. Thomas Hospital, London, King’s College researchers identified 163 biomarkers in blood that can indicate [MORE]

Heartbeats, More Complex than Supposed

For her PhD thesis in biophysics at the University of Virginia, Abigail Flower investigated the high variability of heart [MORE]

“Flying Vaccinators”

Why might the world benefit from a healthy mosquito?  Professor Shigeto Yoshida, at Jichi Medical University (Tochigi, Japan) believes [MORE]

Supercomputing Human Diseases

Medical researchers and physicians at the University of Melbourne (state of Victoria) and IBM’s Research Computational Biology group in [MORE]

Mapping Cancer on Chromosomes

A recent study reported on the importance of DNA copy number variations-both duplications and deletions on chromosomes-in causing cancers.  Indeed, [MORE]

BGI Getting Bigger

The Beijing Genomics Institute’s recent order of 126 DNA sequencers from Illumina, not only makes BGI the world’s largest [MORE]