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MIT researchers build tiny batteries with viruses

...lexible sheets. The result? A dense, virus-loaded film that serves as an anode. A report on the work will appear in the April 7 issue of Science. Belcher, the Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering; Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Materials Science an...

Australian first to save sight

...lant on Thursday. There is also an opportunity to film an operation of a corneal transplant at the Eye and Ear hospital on Tuesday following the opening. ...

First SCID gene chip to be introduced at Academy meeting on immunodeficiencies

... of the disorder increased with the release of the film "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" starring John Travolta as a child stricken with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID) who lived in a plastic enclosure until his death. Exciting New Breakthroughs in Diagnosis and Treatment of SCID In the pas...

New University of Toronto research a 'pore' excuse for engineering

... periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO), is a thin film interspersed with pores just two-billionths of a m...a nanoporous material. When they examined the thin film that remained, they discovered that it made an excellent insulator that could be used to separate ti...

Microbes convert 'Styrofoam? into biodegradable plastic

...can be used to make plastic kitchenware, packaging film and other disposable items. The biodegradable plastic is resistant to hot liquids, greases and oils, and can have a long shelf life. But unlike polystyrene, it readily breaks down in soil, water, septic systems and backyard composts. Worldwide, more...

Recreating 'Flowers for Algernon' with a happy ending

In a surprise twist that recalls the film classic "Flowers for Algernon," but adds a happy ending, UCLA scientists used statins, a popular class of cholesterol drugs, to reverse the attention deficits linked to the leading genetic cause of learning disabilities. The Nov. 8 issue of Current ...

Evolution of life on Earth may hold key to finding life in outer space

... the Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) on a film project that explores the possibilities of life on other planets. Partially funded by an education and public outreach supplement to Fox's NASA grant, the joint production between HMNS and UH, called "Fantasy Worlds: Exploring the Limits of Life," is...

Unusual antibiotics show promise against deadly 'superbugs'

...h, the cells migrated toward an untreated collagen film but avoided the modified collagen sample. This form of collagen could stop the formation of blood clots and scar tissue, and scientists may be able to use it to control the shape and organization of cells and tissue that are grown in a lab, Yu says. ...

Modified collagen could yield important medical applications

...h, the cells migrated toward an untreated collagen film but avoided the modified collagen sample. This form of collagen could stop the formation of blood clots and scar tissue, and scientists may be able to use it to control the shape and organization of cells and tissue that are grown in a lab, Yu says. ...

One gene links newborn neurons with those that die in diseases such as Alzheimer's

...e uses a low-power laser to melt a small circle of film into the tissue. When the film is lifted, the cell body - including its RNA - comes with it, as if removed by a hole punch. After ...

Medical whistleblowers speak out

...rs, in very different ways - from making a satiric film to speaking out in Congress - has shone light on how the "synchrony" between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical enterprise may be compromising the integrity of American medicine. "We should not have to rely on medical whistleblowers to alert...

To control germs, scientists deploy tiny agents provocateurs

... rocks, the plaque on human teeth and the slippery film on ship hulls. If a single cell were analogous to one man, biofilms would be the "bacterial equivalent of mob mentality," says Blackwell. In the realm of health, biofilms are at the root of growing numbers of tenacious, and sometimes fatal, hospital...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...ormer heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali and film star Michael J. Fox, according to the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Pope John Paul II was recently hospitalized because of breathing problems that were complicated by his advancing Parkinson's disease. "The use of GDNF as...

Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Disease Moves Forward In Animals

...ormer heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali and film star Michael J. Fox, according to the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Pope John Paul II was recently hospitalized because of breathing problems that were complicated by his advancing Parkinson's disease. “The use of GDNF as...

Study shows nanoshells ideal as chemical nanosensors

...hot spots"between metallic regions of the metallic film substrate.The finding that individual nanoshells can vastly enhance the Ramaneffect opens the door for biosensor designs that use a singlenanoshell, something that could prove useful for engineers who aretrying to probe the chemical processes within ...

New Clues Add 40,000 Years to Age of Human Species

...chers then came across an unusual resource: unused film footage taken by National Geographic photographers...tion. By matching features such as hills from the film to landmarks in the field, together with a hand drawn map from the late Paul Abell and photographs b...

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