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Technology Research News March 23, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Inkjet prints human cells Scientists tackle challenge of putting the right cells in the right places and ensuring that the cells survive the rough ride. |
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Broken bones yield T. rex tissue When researchers reluctantly sliced a Tyrannosaurus rex femur in half to get it out of the field, they found something completely unexpected -- the original structure of blood vessels and other soft tissues. Might DNA testing reveal detailed information on the genetic code of T. rex, and more? |
Chemistry World May 7, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Carnivorous plant adhesive helps cells stick The adhesive used by carnivorous sundew plants to trap insects may one day find use as a cell-friendly scaffold in tissue engineering, researchers in the US have shown. |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Patch & Smalley |
Body handles nanofiber better The human body doesn't care for artificial materials, and responds to invasions by building scar tissue around foreign objects. A study shows that scar tissue formation might have more to do with the surface features of the intrusion than material it is made from. |
Chemistry World July 28, 2011 Carol Stanier |
Spotlight on Polymerisation to Repair Damaged Faces To repair scarred facial tissue, US scientists have developed a minimally invasive repair method combining natural and synthetic materials to form a tissue scaffold to help the body heal itself. |
Chemistry World January 15, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Blowing up brain tissue with swelling polymer delivers sharper images A new microscopic technique that magnifies specimens by blowing them up like a balloon could make it easier to produce high resolution images of cells and tissues. |
Chemistry World December 23, 2015 |
Bones of contention Can protein in dinosaur bones survive for millions of years? Rachel Brazil explores the evidence. |
Chemistry World June 14, 2011 |
A New Spin on Protein NMR A new technique will allow researchers to study protein structure in greater detail using NMR. |
Chemistry World May 2, 2012 Russell Johnson |
Reducing the cost of oxygen enrichment A simple synthesis using ionic liquids reduces the cost of studying micro-porous oxide materials by NMR. This could help scientists uncover the chemistry and interactions that occur inside these materials. |
Reactive Reports Issue 64 David Bradley |
Dino Remains We have not quite entered Jurassic Park, but researchers have successfully extracted protein from a 68 million year old Tyrannosaurus rex bone. |
Smithsonian May 2006 Helen Fields |
Dinosaur Shocker New observations could shed light on how dinosaurs evolved and how their muscles and blood vessels worked. And the new findings might help settle a long-running debate about whether dinosaurs were warmblooded, coldblooded -- or both. |
Chemistry World April 2007 Jon Evans |
Better, Stronger, Faster In the 1970s, the idea of building a bionic man was merely fantastical. Now we have bionic eyes and limbs, and chemists are creating artificial bodily tissues to rival nature's own. |
Bio-IT World May 2006 Robert M. Frederickson |
A New (Bio)Spin on NMR Applications Bruker BioSpin recently announced several introductions to improve throughput, sensitivity, and versatility of its systems for nuclear magnetic resonance applications starting with the SampleJet, a robotics system for high-throughput transfers of NMR sample tubes into the NMR spectrometer. |
Scientific American November 28, 2005 Christine Soares |
Cold War Clues Atomic tests allow carbon dating of baby boomers and enable neuroscientists to track brain tissue regeneration. |
Technology Research News June 29, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Cell combo yields blood vessels Researchers experiment with methods of getting blood vessels to grow in replacement organs before the tissue is placed in the body. |
Geotimes April 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
T. Rex Tissue Yields Genetically Revealing Proteins The family tree of an infamous dinosaur is coming to life before researchers' eyes. Scientists say they extracted protein from a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex leg bone that supports a genetic link between dinosaurs and birds. |
Bio-IT World February 18, 2004 |
Proteomics Goes Cellular Tissue microarrays save big on sample material and reagents. But more importantly, this new high-throughput technology is helping save the lives of cancer patients |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Dan Ferber |
Revealing the Biological Complexity of Bones Bones are the body's framework and support, our strongest tissues. Unlike the scaffold of a building, however, bones are anything but inert. They pulse with life and their maintenance requires a surprisingly delicate balancing act. |
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Creating the Body's Microenvironment to Grow Artificial Organs Scientists are using micro-electromechanical systems to grow artificial organs. |
Chemistry World March 18, 2011 Elinor Richards |
The way to pain-free uterine disease detection A potential non-invasive method to detect endometriosis by acquiring a spectral signature of the uterus has been developed by scientists from the UK. |
Chemistry World August 30, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Lasers Shed Light on Magnetic Resonance A new way of measuring nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquid samples could have implications across spectroscopy and imaging, report researchers. |
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 August 1, 2010 Mike Brown |
Snapshots of mystery molecular structures Researchers have used atomic force microscopy to produce clear molecular images that can help determine the correct atomic structure of unknown organic molecules. |
Chemistry World September 27, 2011 Maria Burke |
Patching up Patients with a Heart of Gold Researchers have used gold nanowires to boost the propagation of electrical signals in cardiac patches, significantly increasing their therapeutic value. |
Chemistry World August 28, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Synthetic self-assembling collagen for tissue engineering US researchers have succeeded in making the most realistic synthetic collagen to date. |
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 May 5, 2010 Mike Brown |
Natural artificial muscles Scientists in Canada and the US have developed artificial proteins that mimic the elastic and mechanical properties of the muscle protein, titin. |
Chemistry World June 13, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Novel 'cell wires' to patch up heart or nerve damage Noodle-like strings containing living cells have been made by researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World October 15, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Bones Heal Faster with Nanocrystals A nanocrystalline cement could help bone grafts to heal more quickly, Chinese scientists have claimed. |
Chemistry World April 2010 |
Column: The crucible We are getting better at manipulating cells to grow into the tissues we need. Chemical factors are key, says Philip Ball |
Chemistry World March 18, 2011 Rebecca Brodie |
Digging deeper into bone fossils The accuracy of studies on ancient bones of interest to archaeologists and paleontologists can be improved thanks to a new procedure designed by scientists in France. |
Chemistry World April 8, 2014 Katia Moskvitch |
Gel to heal divide between bones and surgical implants A new gel developed by researchers at Uppsala University, Sweden, could lead to a smart coating that makes it easier to fuse surgical implants with bone tissue by reducing the chances of rejection by the body. |
Chemistry World September 5, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Raman-based imaging takes guesswork out of brain surgery A new technique that color-codes cancerous and healthy brain cells according to their chemistry could help surgeons remove all traces of brain tumors while minimizing damage to sensitive tissues. |
Chemistry World December 11, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
'Google map' of a prostate UK researchers have used vibrational spectroscopy to chemically image the cross section of a prostate to such an incredible level of detail that each of the 66 million pixels in the image represents a piece of tissue only 5.5 A -- 5.5 m. |
Chemistry World February 13, 2013 Michael Parkin |
Bone-repairing nanoparticles laced with DNA A bone-repairing nanoparticle paste has been developed that promises faster repair of fractures and breakages. DNA containing two growth-factor genes is encapsulated inside synthetic calcium-phosphate nanoparticles. |
Reactive Reports Issue 43 |
Star Picks Science website suggestions: Switchback Fair... Worlwide Molecular Matrix... Musical NMR... etc. |
Chemistry World March 22, 2007 Michael Gross |
Eat Isotopes to Live Longer Food containing heavy isotopes of hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen could slow down the aging process. That's the claim of a biochemist who suggests that seeding key biological molecules with deuterium or carbon-13 could drastically reduce oxidative damage or even avert it altogether. |
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 January 20, 2011 Erica Wise |
Protective shells for cells A highly permeable shell made for living cells could substantially extend their lifetime in bioengineering applications, including aiding bone repair, say US scientists. |
Chemistry World May 24, 2006 |
Detecting Brain Damage Before it Happens An NMR technique under development could help the victims of stroke by detecting brain damage early enough to provide treatment. |
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 May 22, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
'Printing' organs with hydrogels Dutch researchers have developed a way to 'print' stable cell-containing scaffolds, creating a method that could one day be used to help make tailor-made tissue grafts |
Popular Mechanics November 17, 2009 Elizabeth Svoboda |
Five Body Parts You May Be Able to Regrow Soon(ish) New hope for injured hearts, lungs, arms and legs as well as other body regeneration strategies. |
Chemistry World June 8, 2015 James Urquhart |
Injectable electronics unfold to monitor brain activity Flexible electronics have been created that unfold once injected into a biological tissue such as the brain. |
Chemistry World June 12, 2013 Kirsty Muirhead |
An end to chasing molecules that were never there? Ariel Sarotti from the Rosario National University, Argentina, has developed a new, computationally inexpensive method combining calculated and experimental 13C NMR data to flag up incorrect structures. |
Chemistry World February 10, 2011 Erica Wise |
Raman imaging gives new hope for cancer diagnosis Surface enhanced Raman scattering works by detecting spectroscopic signals of molecules such as cancer antibodies that are in close proximity to metals injected into tissue such as gold or silver nanoparticles. |
Chemistry World June 12, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
A New Way to Look at the Brain Researchers have for the first time scanned the human brain with positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging simultaneously. The work introduces the possibility of obtaining both highly specific functional data together with anatomical information in a single scan. |
Chemistry World October 26, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Proton NMR Spots Shape-Shifting Tablets UK scientists have extended the bounds of solid-state NMR to quickly solve a problem plaguing the pharmaceutical industry: how to spot unwanted crystal packing forms in a drug tablet. |
Chemistry World January 12, 2012 Russell Johnson |
Staining tissue samples at the microscale A vertical microfluidic probe developed by researchers in Switzerland can create a range of immunohistochemistry staining conditions on a single tissue sample. |