biology
Ultrasound-powered nanorobots clear bacteria and toxins from blood
Posted in Science on 6th Jun, 2018
by Alex Muller
The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency aims to create a broad-spectrum detoxification robotic platform.
'Reprogrammed' Stem Cells Approved to Mend Human Hearts
Posted in Medicine on 1st Jun, 2018
by Alex Muller
Three patients in Japan will receive the experimental therapy in the next year.
UCLA engineer develops 3D printer that can create complex biological tissues
Posted in Medicine on 23rd May, 2018
by Alex Muller
A UCLA bioengineer has developed a technique that uses a specially adapted 3D printer to build therapeutic biomaterials from multiple materials.
Atacama's lessons about looking for life on Mars
Posted in Science on 27th Feb, 2018
by Alex Muller
Even in the driest places on Earth there is life eking out an existence, it seems.
Origins of land plants pushed back in time
Posted in Science on 20th Feb, 2018
by Alex Muller
A seminal event in the Earth's history - when plants appeared on land - may have happened 100 million years earlier than previously thought.