“Body on a chip” Could Improve Drug Evaluation By: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect possible side effects before the drugs are tested in humans. Using a microfluidic platform that connects engineered tissues from [..]
Molecular Cuisine for Gut Bacteria By: EMBL News Scientific recipes to successfully grow and study gut bacteria in the lab: that’s what EMBL* scientists are publishing in Nature Microbiology on March 19. They report on the nutritional preferences and growth characteristics of 96 diverse gut bacterial strains. Their results will help scientists [..]
New Form of Electronic Matter By: Lois Yoksoulian | UIUC news Researchers have produced a “human scale” demonstration of a new phase of matter called quadrupole topological insulators that was recently predicted using theoretical physics. These are the first experimental findings to validate this theory. The researchers report their findings in [..]
Personalizing Wearable Devices By Leah Burrows | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences When it comes to soft, assistive devices — like the exosuit being designed by the Harvard Biodesign Lab — the wearer and the robot need to be in sync. But every human moves a [..]
Faster, Cheaper and More Reliable Tuberculosis Diagnosis by Stanford Researchers By: Nathan Collins | Stanford News Tuberculosis, a distant memory to most Americans, remains a serious public-health threat in developing countries, in part because the most common test for the disease was developed a century ago and is not the most [..]
New Tailored Tissue Adhesives by MIT Scientist By: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office After undergoing surgery to remove diseased sections of the colon, up to 30 percent of patients experience leakage from their sutures, which can cause life-threatening complications. Many efforts are under way to create new tissue glues [..]
Tracking Patients’ Progress With Radio Signals and Machine Learning By: Elizabeth Dougherty In 2016, Jason Laramie attended a talk at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about a device that can see through walls. It can detect people, track their movement and breathing, and even see their hearts beating. Laramie, an [..]
3D Print Shape-Shifting Smart Gel by Rutgers Engineers By: Todd B. Bates | Rutgers University News Rutgers engineers have invented a “4D printing” method for a smart gel that could lead to the development of “living” structures in human organs and tissues, soft robots and targeted drug delivery. The 4D printing [..]
Flexible Lithium Battery for Wearable Electronics by Columbia Engineers By: Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science The rapid development of flexible and wearable electronics is giving rise to an exciting range of applications, from smart watches and flexible displays—such as smart phones, tablets, and TV—to smart fabrics, smart glass, transdermal [..]
A Mutational Timer Is Built Into The Chemistry Of DNA By: Duke University News If you had to copy billions of letters from one sheet of paper to another, you’d probably make a few mistakes. So it might not come as a surprise that when DNA makes a copy of [..]
Meet Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, the first monkey clones produced by method that made Dolly Source: Cell Press The first primate clones made by somatic cell nuclear transfer are two genetically identical long-tailed macaques born recently at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai. Researchers named [..]
New Hassle-Free HIV Test That Works Better and Faster By: NATHAN COLLINS | Stanford News Public health officials have a tough choice to make when it comes to screening people for HIV: administer a reliable blood test that can detect infections early on, but that few people will volunteer for, [..]
Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs By: University of Queensland News An old drug supercharged by University of Queensland researchers has emerged as a new antibiotic that could destroy some of the world’s most dangerous superbugs. The supercharge technique , led by Dr Mark Blaskovich and Professor Matt Cooper from UQ’s Institute for [..]
First Step Toward Cell-Sized Robots By: Tom Fleischman, Cornell Chronicle An electricity-conducting, environment-sensing, shape-changing machine the size of a human cell? Is that even possible? Cornell physicists Paul McEuen and Itai Cohen not only say yes, but they’ve actually built the “muscle” for one. With postdoctoral researcher Marc Miskinat the helm, the team has made [..]
Removable Implant May Control Type 1 Diabetes By: Cornell News For the more than 1 million Americans who live with type 1 diabetes, daily insulin injections are literally a matter of life and death. And while there is no cure, a Cornell-led research team has developed a device that could [..]
Four-dimensional Physics in Two Dimensions By: Penn State News For the first time, physicists have built a two-dimensional experimental system that allows them to study the physical properties of materials that were theorized to exist only in four-dimensional space. An international team of researchers from Penn State, ETH Zurich in Switzerland, [..]
Flexible, Stretchable, and Low-Cost Electronics by Metal Printing By: North Carolina State University News Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for directly printing metal circuits, creating flexible, stretchable electronics. The technique can use multiple metals and substrates and is compatible with existing manufacturing systems that employ direct printing [..]
Pain-free Skin Patch Responds to Sugar Levels for Management of Type 2 Diabetes By: NIBIB News For millions of people with type 2 diabetes, ongoing vigilance over the amount of sugar, or glucose, in their blood is the key to health. A finger prick before mealtimes and maybe an insulin [..]
Diabetes drug “significantly reverses memory loss” in mice with Alzheimer’s By: Lancaster University News The research, published in Brain Research, could bring substantial improvements in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease through the use of a drug originally created to treat type 2 diabetes. Lead researcher Professor Christian Holscher of Lancaster University in [..]
This will Help to Improve Early Diagnosis of Kidney Stone Disease By: NUS News An interdisciplinary research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has recently discovered a unique panel of urine biomarkers that could accurately diagnose nephrolithiasis, also commonly known as kidney stone. These urine biomarkers may potentially [..]
Turning Pathogens Against Each Other to Prevent Drug Resistance By: University of Michigan News Limiting a much-needed resource could pit pathogens against one another and prevent the emergence of drug resistance. New research demonstrates that harnessing competition among pathogens inside a patient could extend the life of existing drugs where resistance [..]
Making Fuel From Emissions By: David L. Chandler | MIT News Office MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety [..]
New Direction for Autoimmune Drug Design Inspired by Viral Protein By: Susan Gammon | SBP Beaker Blog In the U.S. alone, 24 million people, or eight percent of the population, have autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and psoriasis. Current treatments, including the new wave of biologic [..]
Manta Ray Robot By NUS Scientists Which Can Swims Faster and Operates up to 10 Hours By: NUS News Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have created MantaDroid, an aquatic robot that emulates the swimming locomotion of manta rays. The robotic manta ray, which swims at the speed of twice [..]
Novel Way to Make Nanoscale Emulsions By: David L. Chandler | MIT News Office The reluctance of oil and water to mix together and stay that way is so well-known that it has become a cliché for describing any two things that do not go together well. Now, a new [..]
Flexible and Stretchable Photonic Devices Developed by MIT Researchers By: David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Researchers at MIT and several other institutions have developed a method for making photonic devices — similar to electronic devices but based on light rather than electricity — that can bend and stretch [..]
New Sodium Based Battery Are More Cost-Effective Storage Than Lithium By: TOM ABATE | Stanford News As a warming world moves from fossil fuels toward renewable solar and wind energy, industrial forecasts predict an insatiable need for battery farms to store power and provide electricity when the sky is dark [..]
New Form of Data Storage: MIT Research By: David Chandler | MIT News Office New research has shown that an exotic kind of magnetic behavior discovered just a few years ago holds great promise as a way of storing data — one that could overcome fundamental limits that might otherwise be [..]
Controlling Brain Cancer Growth By Neuroligin-3 Inhibition : Stanford Research By: Erin Digitale | Stanford News The growth of certain aggressive brain tumors can be halted by cutting off their access to a signaling molecule produced by the brain’s nerve cells, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University [..]
Bio-Inspired Synthetic RNA Delivery System By: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office By delivering strands of genetic material known as messenger RNA (mRNA) into cells, researchers can induce the cells to produce any protein encoded by the mRNA. This technique holds great potential for administering vaccines or treating diseases such [..]
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