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Printing technique creates effective skin equivalent, heals wounds

Material mimics all three layers of the skin, allows for complex printing structures.

Dec 3rd, 2021

Building better tools for biomanufacturing

A team of researchers has developed an analytical tool designed to improve the biomanufacturing process of advanced cell-based therapies.

Dec 3rd, 2021

Uncovering a promising use case for exosomes

Scientists are pursuing the biological aspects of extracellular vesicle-cell communication, to expand exosome-based delivery of growth factors that could potentially help in regenerative medicine and in controlling diseases such as cancer.

Dec 2nd, 2021

Scientists develop wireless networks that allow brain circuits to be controlled remotely through the Internet?

Wireless implantable devices and IoT could manipulate the brains of animals from anywhere around the world due to their minimalistic hardware, low setup cost, ease of use, and customizable versatility.

Dec 2nd, 2021

Deep learning dreams up new protein structures

Researchers show that a neural network trained exclusively to predict protein shapes can also generate new ones.

Dec 1st, 2021

Synthetic tissue can repair hearts, muscles, and vocal cords

Combining knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering, scientists develop a biomaterial tough enough to repair the heart, muscles, and vocal cords, representing a major advance in regenerative medicine.

Nov 30th, 2021

Biosensor barcodes identify, detail 'chatting' among cancer cells

Tagging biochemical processes with colors enables in-depth examination of cellular communications network at molecular level.

Nov 30th, 2021

We might not know half of what's in our cells, new AI technique reveals

Artificial intelligence-based technique reveals previously unknown cell components that may provide new clues to human development and disease.

Nov 24th, 2021

Enhancing the workhorse: Artificial intelligence, hardware innovations boost confocal microscope's performance

To push confocal imaging to an unprecedented level of performance, researchers have invented a 'kitchen sink' confocal platform that borrows solutions from other high-powered imaging systems, adds a unifying thread of Deep Learning artificial intelligence algorithms, and successfully improves the confocal's volumetric resolution by more than 10-fold while simultaneously reducing phototoxicity.

Nov 24th, 2021

Designing microbe factories for sustainable chemicals

Machine learning, Bayesian inference, and metabolic modeling help design biofuel-producing yeast.

Nov 20th, 2021

Novel artificial genomic DNA can replicate and evolve outside the cell

Scientists have successfully induced gene expression from a DNA, characteristic of all life, and evolution through continuous replication extracellularly using cell-free materials alone, such as nucleic acids and proteins for the first time.

Nov 19th, 2021

Researchers develop method for early detection of bacterial infection in crops

Novel Raman Spectroscopy-based method enables early detection and quantification of pathogens in plants, which can impact plant disease management and agricultural industry.

Nov 18th, 2021

Artificial intelligence successfully predicts protein interactions

The study identified more than 100 probable protein complexes for the first time and provided structural models for more than 700 previously uncharacterized ones. Insights into the ways pairs or groups of proteins fit together to carry out cellular processes could lead to a wealth of new drug targets.

Nov 17th, 2021

Synthetic biology yields easy-to-use underwater adhesives

Scientists have developed a method that uses engineered microbes to produce the necessary ingredients for a biocompatible adhesive hydrogel that is as strong as spider silk and as adhesive as mussel foot protein (Mfp), which means it can stick to a myriad.