Articles tagged with "Life Sciences"

Sort by

Perfecting the inside job

January 6, 2019
An industrial fellowship helped Jonathan Vince explore how to avoid the grim side-effects of traditional cancer treatment using microspheres and internal radiation   Cancer. It’s the one of the few words which...

3D-printed biosensors for diabetes patients

January 4, 2019
3D-printed biosensors in wearable monitors have picked up glucose signals more effectively than traditionally produced electrodes.  Researchers at Washington State University’s faculty in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering used...

Brain pacemaker controls optogenetics

January 3, 2019
A miniature wireless implant could allow more efficient optogenetics in the human brain, according to a University of Arizona study.The “brain pacemaker” is implanted under the scalp by way of...

Bioprocess turns pine needles into new products

January 3, 2019
A new bioprocess could turn pine needles on abandoned Christmas trees into environmentally friendly chemical products.

Taking the wider view

January 3, 2019
The ‘quality’ of a research paper is a tricky thing to quantify – journal impact factors and citations have gone some way to do this, but they don’t take into...

Reindeer maintain circadian rhythm in dark months

December 26, 2018
Reindeer are able to maintain a 24-hour body clock during days of sustained light or darkness, according to a new research paper.An international collaboration of scientists from the James Hutton...

Self-lighting Christmas trees with synthetic DNA

December 24, 2018
 CRISPR gene editing could be used to develop self-lighting Christmas trees, according to University of Warwick scientists.Engineers and biologists the university’s Interactive Synthetic Biology Centre used virtual reality to demonstrate...

Wasp venom repurposed as antibiotic drug

December 20, 2018
Variants of a peptide normally found in wasp venom could have applications as an antibiotic drug for humans.   Engineers from MIT studied antimicrobial properties of a toxin normally found in a...

Electronic pill connects to external device

December 18, 2018
An ingestible sensor is able to release drugs and relay diagnostic information wirelessly to an external device, such as a smartphone.The capsule, developed by researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham...

DeepMind AI predicts 3D protein shapes

December 3, 2018
A British technology company has used AI to predict the 3D structure of a protein based on its genetic sequence.DeepMind used its AlphaFold AI system focused on modelling target shapes...

Pin It on Pinterest