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Artificial Materials Inspired by a Sea Mollusk Shell and Eyes

Scientists from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard have discovered how a biomineral can generate two mollusk structures as different as the...

Basic Research

Hydra Transforms Epithelium Into Rudimentary Nervous System

The freshwater polyp Hydra can regenerate all its body from just a fragment, and survives after losing all its nervous system. Scientists from the University of...

Basic Research

Shimadzu Launches an LC-MS with Two Flow Lines

Shimadzu has released the Nexera MX, an ultra-fast liquid cromatography-mass spectrometry tandem with capability to analyze twice the number of samples than current LC-MS systems....

Chromatograph

New Method to Inhibit Biofilm Growth on Medical Implants

Researchers from Sahlgrenska Academy have developed a new technique to prevent biofilm formation. Coating implants and catheters with “tissue plasminogen activator” prevents the infectious agent Staphylococcus aureus...

Biotechnology

A Crowdsourced Comic for Lab Complaints

The Nature Publishing Group has recently opened a webpage where scientists can submit their lab gripes. Murphy´s Lab is an interesting initiative where people can complain...

Crowdsourcing

A New Chemotherapy Breaches the Blood-Brain Barrier

A brain tumor patient was treated with an innovative technique that allows to deliver drugs to the brain via bloodstream. The chemotherapy agent was able...

Cancer Research

A New Nanopore Sequencer with Graphene Technology

Researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed a new nanopore sequencing method based on graphene nanoribbons that detects double and single stranded DNA in...

Basic Research

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