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Cell-building discovery could reduce need for some animal research

Cell-building discovery could reduce need for some animal research

Biology /

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brown University biomedical engineers can now grow and assemble living microtissues into complex three-dimensional structures in a way that will advance the field of tissue engineering and may eventually reduce ...


Bioengineers develop a microfabricated device to measure cellular forces during tissue development

Microfabricated device measures cellular forces during tissue development (w/Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A University of Pennsylvania-collaboration of bioengineers studying the physical forces generated by individual cells has created a tiny micron-sized device that allows researchers to measure and manipulate ...


Lab-grown nerves promote nerve regeneration after injury

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have engineered transplantable living nerve tissue that encourages and guides regeneration in an animal model. Results were published this month in Tissue En ...


Slices of Living Brain Tissue are Helping Scientists Identify New Stroke Therapies

Slices of living brain tissue are helping scientists identify new stroke therapies

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Slices of living human brain tissue are helping scientists learn which drugs can block the waves of death that engulf and engorge brain cells following a stroke.


Finding could lead to advance in nano-surgery

Finding could lead to advance in nano-surgery

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (35) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the problems with laser surgery is that the heat produced can damage tissue, and even lead to cell death. Attempts are being made to replace laser surgery with non-thermal plasma interaction, ...


Imaging Assay Tracks Growth of Fat Cells in living mouse

Newly identified cells make fat

Biology /

created Oct 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

To understand where fat comes from, you have to start with a skinny mouse. By using such a creature, and observing the growth of fat after injections of different kinds of immature cells, scientists at the ...


Stem cell breakthrough: Monitoring the on switch that turns stem cells into muscle

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In a genetic engineering breakthrough that could help everyone from bed-ridden patients to elite athletes, a team of American researchers—including 2007 Nobel Prize winner Mario R. Capecchi—have created a "switch" that allows ...


Fat-regenerating 'stem cells' found in mice

Biology /

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers have identified stem cells with the capacity to build fat, according to a report in the October 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. Although they have yet to show that the cells can renew ...


Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

Mending broken hearts with tissue engineering

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 02, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues.


Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living cells

Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists in Washington, DC, are reporting development and successful tests of a new way for exploring the insides of living cells, the microscopic building blocks of all known plants and animals. They explode ...


Study shows new approach to prevent antibody-mediated damage in kidney transplants

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early results from a Mayo Clinic research study demonstrate the effectiveness of a new approach to blocking an important part of the immune system that causes severe damage to some kidney transplants. Historically, these ...


Research sheds new light on epilepsy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Pioneering research using human brain tissue removed from people suffering from epilepsy has opened the door to new treatments for the disease.


Heart disease: Research off the beating patch

Heart disease: Research off the beating patch

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It is an amazing sight: What looks like a tiny beating heart is actually a piece of synthetic, gauze-like mesh, barely the size of a fingernail, floating in a Petri dish. And yet it keeps squeezing away, nice ...


Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 14, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.


Technique may help stem cells generate solid organs

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stem cells can thrive in segments of well-vascularized tissue temporarily removed from laboratory animals, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Once the cells have nestled into the tissue's nooks ...