POSTS TAGGED AS bioscience

Injectable Hydrogel for Diabetic Ulcers

Rice University Graduate Student Nicole Carrejo Analyzes a Sample of K2(SL)6K2
Treating diabetic foot ulcers is an art left behind. Little [MORE]

Huntington’s RNAs Inhibit Cancer Growth

3D Image of Hungtington Gene
Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that the trinucleotide repeats (TNRs) associated with Huntington’s disease also [MORE]

Genes of Osteoarthritis

Genetic Study of Osteoarthritis Research
Osteoarthritis is the leading cause of disability worldwide. There is no treatment for it other than [MORE]

Nanoplasmonic Sensor

Nanosensor
“Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan have developed a nanoplasmonic sensor that can measure cell [MORE]

Harvard’s Artificial Eye Technology

Artificial Eye and Muscle Technology
Quoting directly: “Harvard has reported a breakthrough flat artificial eye just 30 microns in depth which [MORE]

Battle of the Biobanks

Eric Dishman
Biobanks seem to be the “in thing.” The Department of Veterans Affairs has its “Million Veterans” program; Geisinger Health [MORE]

Heart Tissue Regeneration Potential

Human Heart
Cardiomyocytes, like brain cells, stop regenerating after a brief window. But inducing them to cell cycle again is a [MORE]

Variance in Liquid Biopsy Test Results

Liquid Biopsy
According to Johns Hopkins University researchers: “Many commercial developers of liquid biopsy tests tout the accuracy and benefits of [MORE]

Sandia’s Nanoparticle Material for Theranostics

Sandia Theranostics
Sandia National Laboratories engineers have developed rare-earth “metal-organic framework” materials that have unusual properties such as different color fluorescence, [MORE]

3-D Jet Writing vs. 3-D Printing

3D Jet Writer
In order to make more authentically-sized tissues for researching anti-cancer therapeutics, Purdue University and University of Michigan researchers [MORE]

Optical Analysis of Metabolic Change in Cells

Cell Fluorescence Reveals Metabolic Activity
Researchers at Tufts University have developed an optical tool that can reveal “specific metabolic signatures” in [MORE]

A Patch of Living Cells to Treat Blood Vessel Blockages

3D Patch for Resected Femoral Artery
Vascular grafts and stents work with arteries, but when a blockage plugs up smaller blood [MORE]

Measuring Heat of Drug-Target Interaction

Chemistry Lab
Chemical reactions almost always generate heat, and knowing that biochemists at McGill University have applied isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) [MORE]

A Lung-Liver-Gut-Endometrium-Brain-Heart-Pancreas-Kidney-Skin-Skeletal Muscle “Body-on-a-Chip” Device

MIT Organs Chip
Aimed at drug testing, MIT engineers have created a physiome chip, aka “body-on-a-chip,” that has one to two [MORE]