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Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025

June 25, 2020
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human rights and biomedical technologies. Governance of technologies, equity in health care and physical and...

Eye-controlled contact lenses

July 29, 2019
Biomechanical engineers have created a robotic lens that allows the wearer to focus on an image through eye movements, such as a double blink.

Beyond the code

July 22, 2019
Genomics has been revolutionary – but have we forgotten cell biology in the push for an ever more reductive understanding of health and disease? Professor John S Torday thinks the...

Gut microbiome plays role in evolution

October 22, 2018
By using a novel system of taxonomy a team has made a key advance toward understanding which of the trillions of gut microbes may play important roles in how humans...

Gene signatures help kidney transplant success

September 14, 2018
Scientists have discovered a molecular signature for the allostatic load _– or ‘wear and tear’ – of kidneys which could help clinicians understand why some kidney transplants don’t work as...

Magnetic sense could lead to molecular manipulation

April 13, 2018
By understanding Magnetoreception - the ability of some animals to sense Earth’s magnetic field – a team of researchers is hoping to develop a new technique to control molecular processes.The...

The bare-bones of hypergravity

April 9, 2018
A team of student biologists have been selected to take part to study the effect of hypergravity on bone development as apart of the in the European Space Agency’s Spin...

Molecular printing tech recreates complex biology

January 19, 2018
A new fabrication technology which could allow researchers to recreate complex biological environments has been developed by a team at Queen Mary University of London.‘3DEAL’ is a simple and inexpensive...

Tissue regeneration method created

December 15, 2017
Researchers from the University of Birmingham have found a way to successfully mimic the body’s natural healing process.

Promising gene therapy treatment for blindness

December 7, 2017
University of Oxford scientists have shown how gene therapy could reverse blindness. Most causes of untreatable blindness occur from the loss of millions of light sensitive photoreceptor cells that line...

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