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Machine learning helps grow artificial organs
Added: 17 Jul 2020
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ivannikov Institute for System Pro…
Manchester expert launches COVID-19 global task force
Added: 17 Jul 2020
A world-leading materials expert from The University of Manchester is helping to launch a new globa…
Supergenes play a larger role in evolution than previously thought
Added: 16 Jul 2020
Massive blocks of genes--inherited together 'plug and play' style--may play a larger role in evolut…
Scaling up the quantum chip
Added: 16 Jul 2020
MIT researchers have developed a process to manufacture and integrate ‘artificial atoms’, created b…
Serving virtual reality Raspberry Pi to flies
Added: 15 Jul 2020
The Raspberry Pi Virtual Reality system (PiVR) is a versatile tool for presenting virtual reality e…
New molecular tool precisely edits mitochondrial DNA
Added: 14 Jul 2020
The genome in mitochondria -- the cell's energy-producing organelles -- is involved in disease and …
5G could support telesurgery during COVID-19 pandemic
Added: 14 Jul 2020
A surgeon demonstrated how telesurgery could be successfully performed using robotic technology and…
New candidate for raw material synthesis through gene transfer
Added: 13 Jul 2020
Cyanobacteria hardly need any nutrients and use the energy of sunlight. Bathers are familiar with t…
Algae as living biocatalysts for a green industry
Added: 13 Jul 2020
Better still: living algae can be used as biocatalysts for certain substances, and they bring the c…
Kirke teleports from Westeros
Added: 10 Jul 2020
Teleportation is most commonly the stuff of science fiction and, for many, would conjure up the imm…
Dinosaurs may have evolved from a ‘tiny bug slayer’
Added: 10 Jul 2020
New study suggests a miniaturised origin for some of the largest animals ever to live on Earth. Din…
Extinct Oligocene dolphins were apex predators
Added: 9 Jul 2020
A report in the journal Current Biology, offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete…
How the sparrow changed its tune
Added: 9 Jul 2020
Most bird species are slow to change their tune, preferring to stick with tried-and-true songs to d…
Your dog may be older than you think
Added: 8 Jul 2020
If there's one myth that has persisted through the years without much evidence, it's this: multiply…
Fighting E. coli with E. coli
Added: 7 Jul 2020
According to findings from a new gut-in-a-dish study published in mBio, Nissle, a strain of Escheri…
How we encode smell
Added: 6 Jul 2020
Neuroscientists describe for the first time how relationships between different odours are encoded …
Monitoring COVID-19 plasma viscosity
Added: 3 Jul 2020
A clinical viscosity diagnostic instrument is proving to be valuable in the research and treatment …
Instant diagnostic photonics scan for bladder cancer (BLC)
Added: 2 Jul 2020
Thousands of lives lost to bladder cancers each year could be saved thanks to a new scanner that us…
New method reveals how Parkinson's protein damages cell membranes
Added: 2 Jul 2020
In sufferers of Parkinson's disease, clumps of α-synuclein (alpha-synuclein), sometimes known as th…
First volunteer receives new Imperial COVID-19 vaccine
Added: 26 Jun 2020
The first healthy volunteer has received a new coronavirus vaccine developed by researchers led by …
