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Repairing damaged cartilage with a man-made bio-glass
13.5.2016 | Press monitoring
Pioneering technologies like 3D printing have had a huge impact on the medical world, and now a unique material developed by researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Milano-Bicocca could lead to all-new implants for replacing damaged cartilage, including discs between vertebrae. The new material mimics the properties of the...
Performing cellular surgery with a laser-powered nanoblade
11.5.2016 | Press monitoring
To study certain aspects of cells, researchers need the ability to take the innards out, manipulate them, and put them back. Options for this kind of work are limited, but researchers reporting May 10 in Cell Metabolism describe a "nanoblade" that can slice through a cell's membrane to insert mitochondria. The researchers have previously used...
CROSSJECT - AFPric study: patients approve needle-free injection
10.5.2016 | Press monitoring
Chenôve (France), 10 May 2016, 5:45 pm - Crossject (ISIN: FR0011716265 ; Mnemo: ALCJ), a laboratory specialized in auto-injection drugs dedicated to emergency situations, and AFP ric , the largest French association of patients with polyarthritis and chronic inflammatory rheumatisms, pursued their collaboration and released today the main...
Cayman Islands to deploy genetically modified mosquitoes
9.5.2016 | Press monitoring
British biotech company Oxitec and the Cayman Islands government announced plans Thursday to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the fight against a species that spreads Zika and other diseases. Deployment of the mosquitoes against the Aedes aegypti species in the Cayman Islands is a major advance for Oxitec, which has promoted...
Scientists grow human embryo in lab for nearly two full weeks
6.5.2016 | Press monitoring
Studying the way a human embryo grows in its earliest stages can have a significant impact on in vitro fertilization methods as well as on our understanding of how diseases develop when life is just getting started. However, it's always been necessary to put lab-fertilized embryos back in the womb after seven days in order for them to attach and...
Clay nanotube-biopolymer composite scaffolds for tissue engineering
4.5.2016 | Press monitoring
The fabrication of a prototype tissue having functional properties close to the natural ones is crucial for effective transplantation. Tissue engineering scaffolds are typically used as supports which allow cells to form tissue-like structures essentially required for the correct functioning of the cells under the conditions close to the...
Engineers produce biodiesel from microalgae in three hours
2.5.2016 | Press monitoring
Microalgae developed in wastewater retain large amounts of lipids, carbohydrates and proteins suitable for energy production, without a biomass limit or transformation. Scientists at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) tell us that they can produce biofuel in three hours. A research conducted using academic exchanges with students of the...
Glued-together virus-like particles make for simple and effective vaccines
29.4.2016 | Press monitoring
Developing vaccines is a difficult and time-consuming endeavor, but a new technique developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen could revolutionize the practice. The simple method could have a big impact, with the potential to create vaccines for everything from asthma to cancer. Whereas a traditional vaccine will contain a weakened...
Why super-gonorrhoea is spreading and may soon be untreatable
27.4.2016 | Press monitoring
England’s public health agency has launched an “incident response” after discovering more cases of gonorrhoea that are resistant to nearly all antibiotics. Gonorrhoea, also known as “the clap”, was largely controlled by antibiotics after the second world war. But the bacteria readily acquire genes for resisting drugs, and by 2012, the World...
Sophisticated mini-brains add to evidence of Zika\'s toll on fetal cortex
25.4.2016 | Press monitoring
Studying a new type of pinhead-size, lab-grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes microcephaly and other damage in fetal brains: by infecting specialized stem cells that build its outer layer, the cortex. The lab-grown mini-brains,...
