Fruit-Fly Nervous System Imaged at Nearly Single-Cell Resolution
Researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia have recorded the whole neural activity of a fruit fly for the first time. The team...
Basic Research
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3D Printing of Brain-like Tissues to Improve Drug Tests
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) have developed a multi-layered structure of primary neural cells that imitates the brain structure. The...
3D bioprinting
Cyanobacteria Produce Industrial Enzymes Sustainably
Scientists from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have successfully produced biocatalysts from cyanobacteria, microorganisms that only consume water, salts, CO2 and light. The finding, published in the...
Bioengineering
Bacterial Enzyme Might Help Quit Smoking
Researchers from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in La Jolla, CA have discovered a bacterial enzyme that degrades nicotine. The enzyme has been tested in...
Bioengineering
Artificial Blood Vessels with a Thrombolytic Coating
Scientists from the International Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies at ITMO University have developed artificial blood vessels resistant to thrombosis....
Biomedicine
3D Scaffolds and Biomechanical Forces Imitate Conditions for Cancer Growth
Scientists from Rice University and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new system to test cancer drugs. The researchers have created a...
Biomedicine
Genomic Imprinting Can Target Just a Few Cells
Scientists from the University of Utah School of Medicine have discovered that genomic imprinting can be targeted to subregions of tissues or small clusters of...
Basic Research
Long Telomeres May Cause Lung Cancer
Scientists from the University of Chicago have found out that long telomeres are related to higher chances of lung cancer. The article, appeared in...
Biomedicine