Genes in Space Competition Launched
Genes in Space, a competition for students was announced today, promising a change to run the proposed winning experiment on the International Space Station. Until...
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Anti-Alzheimer´s Drug Shows Anti-Aging Effects
Scientists from Salk Institute have found that the experimental anti-Alzheimer´s drug J147 has unexpected anti-aging properties in animals. Mice treated with J147 had better memory...
Biomedicine
Detection of genomic lesions using an artificial DNA base pair
Researchers from the University of Utah have developed a new technique to localize genomic damage sites. The method uses an artificial DNA base pair previously...
Basic Research
3D Printing is not Innocuous for Health
Researchers from the University of California, Riverside have discovered that the material in some 3D printed objects is surprisingly harmful to living things. The finding...
3D printing
Drinkable Book Purifies Contaminated Water
In collaboration with a non-profit organization, an American researcher has designed a book with silver-saturated pages to filter contaminated water. The book is a cheap and...
Education
Cella Medical Solutions wins Adecco Award
The Spanish 3D printing company Cella Medical Solutions won the Adecco “Idea Joven Más Brillante” 2015 Award to the brightest idea from a young entrepreneur....
3D printing
A smartphone accessory to detect sickle cell disease
A team of scientists from four top American universities have developed a smartphone attachment that allows to detect sickle cell disease. The 3D printed device uses...
3D printing
IDT Launches New CRISPR with Increased Editing Efficiency
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has launched the Alt-R™ CRISPR-Cas9 System, a genome editing tool based on the S. pyogenes CRISPR/Cas immune system. IDT has optimized CRISPR...
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