Nanotechnology
Enviro activists reject synbio solution for Indonesian palm oil-orangutan crisis
Expanding palm oil demand has increased rainforest deforestation in places like Indonesia. Synthetic biology has a solution: genetically engineered yeast ...
Why Zika connection to microcephaly, Guillain-Barré hard to prove
Does Zika virus actually cause microcephaly in newborns? Pinning down an answers has been difficult for researchers thus far ...
Biologists manipulate cells with tiny bacterial ‘nanospears’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Billions of years before ...
New, improved brain implants can ‘talk’ to single neuron
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Brain implants have been ...
Nanotechnology ‘cage’ makes cancer drug safer, more effective
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. BIND Therapeutics describes itself ...
Safe, dissolvable brain sensors monitor pressure in skull
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “I just took out ...
After early struggles, ‘biopharming’ poised to make big impact on medicine
Biopharma, which almost disappeared as a technology, has returned, with a treatment for Ebola treatment, a drug producing chicken, and ...
Ultrasound may help cancer drugs penetrate blood-brain barrier
The blood-brain barrier serves as a major obstacle for treating brain cancers, but several groups are having success forcing the ...
Myth busting: Why Agent Orange has nothing do to with GMOs and the herbicide 2,4-D
By spreading misinformation about the herbicide 2,4-D, which IARC says is less hazardous than glyphosate, anti-GMO activists seek to deny ...
Can GMOs cure cancer? Genetically engineered algae found to kill cancer cells
Scientists have genetically engineered algae, transforming them into targeted drug delivery systems to target cancer. It's worked in the lab ...
Most detailed digital simulation of brain yet created from mouse model
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A tiny piece of ...
DNA test for artwork aims to thwart forgery
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The artist Eric Fischl ...
Understanding how fetal tissue is medically used
The public discussion about abortion and fetal tissue has obscured a discussion of how the tissues are ethically and legally ...
Gold particles, Darwinian evolution: Unlikely combination joins to carry out computing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Move over, microchip. A ...
New technologies track genome’s shapeshifting over time
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers have long realized ...
Artificial blood vessels synthesized to resist clotting
Researchers from ITMO University in Russia say they have developed artificial blood vessels that reportedly are not susceptible to blood ...
Micro device gives doctors peek into brain tissue during surgery
A dipstick inserted into the brain can check its energy levels, just like checking oil levels in a car. The ...
5 Myths about GMOs
In the neverending debate about genetically modified foods, which myths do you believe? ...
New vaccine for GMOs? Mercks’ got the miracle cure!
NEW HAVEN, CT – The pharmaceutical giant Merck announce today that is has finished development on a new vaccine to ...
Nanotechnology could lead to revolution in drug development
Monoclonal antibody research skyrocketed in the 1980s. By the next decade, they hit the market and today, some of the ...
Scientists inject electronic device into brains, create cyborgs
No need to wait for the cyborg future—it’s already here. Adding to a growing list of electronics that can be ...
Toxicology studies could impede advances in nanotechnology
Nanomaterials have been on the scene for over 15 years and they are being applied in a variety of sectors ...
