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Chemistry World April 24, 2013 Helen Bache	3D microfluidic liver on a chip Researchers have developed a three-dimensional liver model that can recreate cell signalling within the organ. The liver on a chip could cut tests on animals by providing an accurate artificial model of how the organ responds to new drugs.
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Lab-Grown Liver New cell culture system solves problem of growing liver cells.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Richard Saltus	Three-Dimensional Cell Cultures Thinking big but starting small, Sangeeta Bhatia is closing in on her ambitious goal: growing human livers in the lab from scratch.
Chemistry World November 10, 2011 Russell Johnson	Heart-on-a-chip A heart-on-a-chip device could help detect drugs that limit heart tissue contraction, say US scientists.
Chemistry World June 15, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Electrochemical Screening for Anti-Cancer Drugs A test that predicts an individual cancer patient's response to different drugs is about to enter clinical trials, developers have announced. The chances of successful treatment will increase, they predict, while costs will decrease.
Reactive Reports Issue 56 Jeffrey Krise	A Basic Approach to Chemotherapy Chemists have found a way to attack malignant cells with an anticancer drug, while sparing healthy cells.
The Motley Fool November 28, 2007 Brian Orelli	Stem Your Expectations of Stem-Cell Discoveries Making "stem" cells out of skin cells isn't all it's cracked up to be. The recent discovery has a long way to go before it can catch up to the research currently being done with stem cells.
Bio-IT World April 2006	Virtual Stem Cell Laboratory Goes Live Children's Hospital in Boston's Virtual Stem Cell Laboratory web site allows online visitors to manipulate and investigate a "living" culture of embryonic stem cells.
Chemistry World December 22, 2015 Suzanne Howson	Re-seeding hairlines with stem cells Scientists have developed a way to treat hair loss using stem cells. The cells are enclosed within a cytokine-containing layer that circumvents the difficulties in regenerating new hair follicles on bald skin.
Chemistry World January 12, 2011 Amaya Camara-Campos	Artificial intestine for gut studies Three-dimensional hydrogel scaffolds for studying cells under realistic physiological conditions have been made by scientists from the US and Korea to study drug absorption in the gut.
Chemistry World April 14, 2011 Sarah Farley	Fish in chips: growing embryos in microfluidic systems Scientists in the Netherlands and the UK have shown for the first time that an animal embryo can develop in a microfluidic environment.
Chemistry World November 13, 2012 Rachel Cooper	Detecting cancer cells and parasites Scientists in Denmark have designed a new sensor to detect cells that over-express folate receptors, including cancer cells. The sensor consists of an electrochemical platform composed of graphene and peptide nanotubes with folic acid.
Chemistry World July 31, 2012 Fiona McKenzie	Sorting the good from the bad US scientists have found a way to separate cancerous cells from healthy cells by taking advantage of their adhesion properties. Separating cancer cells for analysis is a critical step for determining the recommended course of treatment for patients.
The Motley Fool August 27, 2007 Brian Orelli	Repairing a Broken Heart Stem cells may be the new cure. If research continues on track, Geron expects to ask FDA to start clinical trials late next year or in early 2009. Investors, take note.
Chemistry World February 9, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Pressurizing red blood cells for information Scientists in Canada have developed a method to study the changes in red blood cells caused by the most common malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Chemistry World January 26, 2011 Anna Watson	Channelling deeper to target breast cancer US scientists have developed a model of the breast ductal system that could be used to discover abnormal cells or deliver drugs at locations further along the ducts than other techniques. The model fits on a slide, enabling on-chip experiments.
Chemistry World April 19, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Cell factories package drugs for delivery Scientists in Australia and Germany have used living cells as 'factories' to encapsulate particles such as drugs in biological membranes.
Chemistry World August 15, 2007 John Bonner	Chemists Claim Biological Alchemy South Korean chemists say they have turned muscle cells from the sole of a human foot into something akin to stem cells, using a simple molecule called neurodazine.
Chemistry World September 24, 2015 Andy Extance	Cosmetics deals push skin 3D bioprinting 3D bioprinting's allure has attracted interest from the skincare industry, with three leading firms each launching skin printing initiatives in mid-2015 that they hope will revolutionize cosmetic testing.
Chemistry World February 11, 2013 Helen Potter	A new system for cancer detection Cancer cells have been found to differ from normal cells in several ways, including the make up of their cell membranes. Cancer-cell membranes have been found to contain more anionic lipids than normal cells, leading to an overall negatively charged cell surface.
Chemistry World October 23, 2011 David Bradley	Clicking Together Cultural Niches Researchers in the US have made three-dimensional hydrogels that are not only compatible with living cells but can be tuned to create specialist growing environments - culture niches - for studying cell function.
Chemistry World December 2, 2010 James Urquhart	Micro organ system to test cancer drugs Japanese researchers have created an organ-on-a-chip system that simultaneously tests how liver, intestine and breast cancer cells respond to cancer drugs.
Scientific American September 19, 2005 Charles Q. Choi	Chatting Up Cells Stem cells can transform into whatever cell the body tells them to. Unfortunately, scientists have yet to master that particular gift of gab. But investigators may soon crack the language with tiny "chat rooms" for stem cells.
Bio-IT World December 15, 2003 Malorye A. Branca	Scenes from a Cell Breakthroughs are making cell-based screening faster, easier, more powerful.
Chemistry World July 28, 2009 Michael Gross	DNA to direct and switch off chemo Researchers in the US have developed a new approach to cancer chemotherapy using short DNA strands to help target delivery of the drug directly to cancer cells, and 'call it off' should problems arise.
Chemistry World March 10, 2011 Elinor Richards	3D model to study breast cancer Scientists from the US have made a computational model of the formation of breast acini, the sac-like part of the milk-producing glands, to understand complex events occurring during the progression of breast cancer.
Chemistry World July 24, 2012 Rachel Cooper	Light speeds up new cell growth Scientists from Singapore have combined a photovoltaic polymer with a biocompatible polymer to make a nanofiber-based scaffold that can grow cells for skin regeneration.
Bio-IT World January 21, 2005 Mark D. Uehling	Profiling Drugs via Microscopy With robotic equipment, this Harvard team scans cells faster than researchers can blink their eyes.
Chemistry World February 13, 2006	Nanoparticles Detect Cell Suicide Plans Researchers have developed a nanotechnological assay for detecting programmed cell death. The technique is effective in cell cultures, they report, and might eventually be used in humans.
Bio-IT World September 2005 Robert M. Frederickson	High-Throughput Biologics Production BioProcessors has addressed the issue of pharmaceutical-grade protein production with its SimCell MicroBioreactor -- essentially a microarray of miniaturized bioreactors in a 96-well plate format. The device cuts the cost of a bioreactor or shake flask data point dramatically.
Chemistry World September 30, 2014 Andy Extance	Tiny tips reveal cells' chemical secrets US researchers have broken into individual living cells with inexpensive probes that can suck their contents directly into a mass spectrometer.
Chemistry World July 1, 2012 Mellisae Fellet	3D printed sugar network to feed engineered organs US researchers can build vessels into a cell-containing gel -- the beginnings of a thick tissue. Scientists form the gel around a lattice of printed sugar fibers. The fibers dissolve after the gel sets, leaving a network of channels that carry nutrients like blood vessels.
Chemistry World January 3, 2012 Simon Hadlington	One-pot synthesis creates anticancer candidates Researchers in Germany have developed a simple, rapid and high-yielding cascade synthesis of a collection of polycyclic compounds that resemble indole alkaloid natural products and which interfere with cell division.
AskMen.com	Synthetic Sperm Created British scientists claimed Wednesday to have created human sperm from stem cells, but other experts questioned their data.
Chemistry World February 6, 2011 Laura Howes	Cells as test tubes Chemists have used living cells as test tubes to carry out chemical reactions never before seen within living cells.
Chemistry World January 16, 2014	The art of alternatives Recent years have seen great advances in alternatives to animal tests. Yet we still need to understand how and why compounds are toxic before we can make the giant leap to replacement.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2007 Brian Orelli	Take Your Medicine; Earn Your Profits Personalized medicine offers investment ideas. Let's take a look at what this new catchphrase in the medical community actually means, and how investors can benefit from it.
Chemistry World February 25, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Anti-Cholesterol Drugs May Damage Cellular Power Station Certain cholesterol-reducing drugs appear to damage mitochondria, the tiny power stations inside living cells.
Reactive Reports Issue 64 David Bradley	Stem to Sperm New research shows that stem cells from human bone marrow can be converted into early-stage sperm. The discovery could lead to novel fertility treatments in the long-term.
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Chemistry World July 11, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Spin Doctors Find New Way to Make Skin Scaffold Researchers have developed a new type of polymer scaffold support for growing cultured human skin cells. The team showed that the mechanical and geometric properties of the scaffold are far more important than any specific chemical property.
Chemistry World July 27, 2015 Tim Wogan	Repellent nanocraters could shape tissue engineering Patterning surfaces with nanoscale craters can interfere with cells' ability to stick to surfaces, researchers in the US have shown.
Chemistry World November 4, 2015 Suzanne Howson	Oral delivery of anticancer drug Scientists in China have unveiled a way to deliver a platinum-based anticancer drug orally.
Chemistry World February 21, 2014 Phillip Broadwith	Refined gels for cultured cells UK start-up Biogelx is developing self-assembled peptide hydrogels that can provide support to growing cells, but also present well-defined surface chemistry to help cell biologists address biological problems.
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Technology Research News March 10, 2004	Chip controls neural connection Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany and the University of Calgary in Canada have used a silicon chip to coax a pair of nerve cells to communicat
Chemistry World November 19, 2010 Philippa Ross	Rise of the micro machines Microjet engines called microbots that can transport cells within a fluid to any desired location have been developed by German scientists.
Chemistry World June 4, 2015 Thadchajini Retneswaran	Microfluidic approach to personalised cancer treatment US scientists have developed an innovative microfluidic assay that can accurately predict how patients with a certain type of blood cancer will respond to an anticancer drug.
Chemistry World February 12, 2014 Manisha Lalloo	Synthetic strategy targets 'undruggable' small RNAs Chemists in the US have found a way to predict small molecules that can target short pieces of RNA involved in some diseases, such as cancer.