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Genomic Benchmarking

Human Genome in 3-D
In the beginning, there were the government supported Human Genome Mapping Project, and the privately funded one [MORE]

Material with “Switchable Wettability”

HHM
Here’s a piece about a new material which, by changing pressure, light, temperature, chemical signaling or electro-magnetic fields, could [MORE]

“Cyborg” Tissue with Embedded Electronics

A group of Harvard scientist and engineers have created a tissue scaffold from organic polymers which also includes nanoscale [MORE]

“Cyborg” Tissue with Embedded Electronics

A group of Harvard scientist and engineers have created a tissue scaffold from organic polymers which also includes nanoscale [MORE]

Regenerating Hearing

Researchers in the US and Japan reported earlier this year that by combining a specific protein suppressor and implanting [MORE]

Optogenetic Switches Light Up Neural Networks

Harvard researchers have successfully transferred an electro-fluorescent protein, rhodopsin, to mammalian heart cells in such a way that the conductivity [MORE]

Nanoelectronic Scaffold for Tissue Culture

Cyborg Tissue
The concept of meshing human and nonhuman tissue into “cybernetic organisms” originated with the US space program and [MORE]

Growing Lung Tissue in Vitro

Cystic Fibrosis
One of the reasons cystic fibrosis remains incurable is that researchers have not, until now, been able to [MORE]

The African-American Genome

Slavery created a selection pressure that favored for survival those individuals who retained water in their blood, since dehydration [MORE]

Genetic Engineering: Eliminating the Stop Codon

George Church, PhD
Harvard’s George Church, Farren Isaacs, and colleagues have used a technique called “multiplex automated genome engineering” to [MORE]

mRNA-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

New Cells from mRNA
In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka, at UCSF, showed that only four proteins were required to reprogram fully [MORE]

Fibronectin Material for Growing New Tissue

In experiments with rats, researchers at the University of Minnesota and Yale University have been able to strip away [MORE]

Seeing Drugs in Living Cells

A Harvard research group has used a highly sensitive microscope, employing Simulated Raman Scatering (which can detect vibrations in the [MORE]

Motion Compensating Software for Heart Surgery

Heart Surgery
In 1953, Ceclia Bavolek was the first patient to have open heart surgery using the heart-lung bypass machine John [MORE]