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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...

Basic Research

Science Is in Conflict with Religion, but Not with My Beliefs

59% of Americans think science and religion are in conflict, according to the last survey from the Pew Research Center, but 68% affirm that science...

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