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Engineers create artificial blood vessels
Added: 4 Feb 2015
Engineers at Shanghai University’s Rapid Manufacturing Engineering Center (RMEC) have created synth…
Scientists speed synthetic chemicals creation
Added: 24 Dec 2014
A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medica…
Fighting Ebola first-hand
Added: 4 Dec 2014
Armed with clinical diagnostics expertise and vital information on the treatment of exotic pathogen…
Light-activated diabetes treatment possible
Added: 14 Oct 2014
Researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) have created a light-activated drug that could reduce …
Food, glorious food
Added: 24 Sep 2014
There are a number of different strategies the food analysis sector can employ to ensure it success…
Scientists develop artificial 'biospleen'
Added: 14 Sep 2014
Novel blood-cleansing device inspired by the human spleen is designed to filter bacteria, fungi and…
Stem cell therapy improves stroke recovery
Added: 8 Aug 2014
Early treatment using stem cells extracted from a patient’s bone marrow is effective in aiding reco…
Genome study targets cancer categories
Added: 7 Aug 2014
New research suggests that 10% of cancers should be reclassified, allowing patients to receive more…
Harvard to commercialise 'organs-on-chips' technology
Added: 29 Jul 2014
A newly formed private company is to accelerate the development of pharmaceutical, chemical and per…
Bioreactor used to generate blood cells
Added: 21 Jul 2014
Bioreactor-on-a-chip system could be used to meet the global need for blood transfusions, new resea…
Scientists turn stem cells to blood
Added: 17 Jul 2014
The ability to reliably and safely make all of the different types of cells in human blood is one s…
Cannabis 'could' combat cancer
Added: 14 Jul 2014
UK scientists suggest a cannabis compound could be used to reverse tumour growth.
Drug resistance mechanism uncovered
Added: 20 Feb 2014
Researchers in the US have discovered a drug resistance mechanism that could have significant impli…
"Scaffold" technique used in stem cell growth
Added: 6 Feb 2014
A team led by scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a method for growing human em…
US scientists create "self-healing" battery
Added: 17 Nov 2013
Researchers in the US say they have developed a battery electrode with a stretchy polymer coating c…
Waste crop biofuel could combat fossil fuel dependency
Added: 14 Nov 2013
Researchers from the University of Nottingham and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering …
Synthetic biology start-ups to benefit from £10m investment
Added: 7 Nov 2013
The investment fund is designed to help companies in the early stages of synthetic biology that hav…
Biofuel by-product could feed chickens
Added: 1 Nov 2013
Experts researching biofuels believe that yeasty by-products being produced could be converted into…
Experts synthesise bio-based hydrogen
Added: 13 Aug 2013
Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered an efficient process for hydrogen …
Scientists unveil first lab-grown burger
Added: 5 Aug 2013
The burger, which is made from the muscle cells of a cow, represents the possibility to make Cultur…
