CRISPR Technology Used to Develop Tuberculosis-Resistant Cows
CRISPR technology may not yet be used to cure diseases in humans, although studies on animals have shown that the gene editing technique has excellent potential for the treatment of…
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Functional MRI Scans Used to Determine Patients’ Response to Antidepressants
The effectiveness of antidepressants can vary considerably from individual to individual. Drugs also need to be taken for a number of weeks before their effectiveness is known. If a particular…
Artificial Intelligence Used to Gain Deeper Understanding of Cancer Biophysics
A team of researchers from the Tufts University’s School of Arts and Sciences, the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, and the University of Maryland have developed an artificial intelligence-derived model…
New 3D Bioprinter Capable of Creating Functional Human Skin
A team of scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research, and Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón in Madrid have been the…
Wearable Tech Diagnoses Lyme Disease
Wearable technology has potential to help doctors diagnose a wide range of medical conditions quickly, thanks to the wide range of physiological data that the devices can collect. There is…
Electron Tunneling Can Identify Carbohydrates at Single-Molecule Level
Researchers at Arizona State University are working on a device that can be used to identify molecules without the need for expensive equipment or vast quantities of samples. The researchers…
Implantable Biobot Drug Pump Prototype Developed
A professor of biomedical engineering from New York City’s Columbia University has developed an implantable biobot drug pump that can deliver timely doses of drugs. The device has been tested…
3D Printing of Nanocomposites Allows Real-Time Monitoring of Liquids
Researchers at Polytechnique Montréal have developed a new 3D printing method that has allowed them to 3D print a material that can detect the presence of different liquids in real…
Four CRISPR-Cas9 Inhibitors Discovered
Researchers at the University of California have discovered four CRISPR-Cas9 inhibitors, which could potentially be used to switch off the gene-editing system to prevent unintentional gene edits. The CRISPR-Cas9 system…
Silicon Nanowire Consumption by Cells Opens Door to Intracellular Bioelectronics
University of Chicago researchers have discovered that human endothelial cells eat nanowires, opening up a plethora of possibilities for the development of bioelectrical devices that work at the single-cell level….