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Organ-on-a-chip mimics heart's biomechanical properties
The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime. Now scientists at Vanderbilt University have created a...
Feb 23, 20174 min read


Now you can 'build your own' bio-bot
I'll bet you don't have one of these at home. For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
Feb 14, 20172 min read


Pancreatic cancer biomarker bolsters nanoparticle-based diagnostic
Arizona State University’s Ye (Tony) Hu and his colleagues have delivered what they hope will be a double dose of good news for detecting...
Feb 8, 20173 min read


Microbiologists make big leap in developing 'green' electronics
Microbiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have discovered a new type of natural wire produced by...
Jan 18, 20173 min read


New liquid biopsy chip that detects metastatic cancer cells in blood
A chip developed by mechanical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) can trap and identify metastatic cancer cells in a...
Dec 16, 20165 min read


Faster (cheaper) method for making big bioactive ring molecules
Ring molecules called cyclic depsipeptides play an important role in living organisms. Microbes make them as part of their chemical...
Dec 13, 20163 min read
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