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Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant gene enables mice to regenerate ear tissue. /news/2025-06-silent-gene-revives-tissue-regeneration.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:50:07 EDT news670502862 Bioengineers at Queen Mary University of London have taken a significant step forward in the development of laboratory-based models of human tissues that may be used as alternatives to animal testing. /news/2025-05-scientists-complexity-tissue-alternative-animals.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Tue, 13 May 2025 11:27:04 EDT news666354421 Porous materials are essential for many chemical processes, such as light harvesting, adsorption, catalysis, energy transfer, and even new technologies for electronic materials. Therefore, many efforts have been made to control the porosity of different manufactured materials. /news/2024-02-microfluidic-module-porosity-materials.html Materials Science Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:31:03 EST news627917461 Science's steady march to find a vaccine capable of ending the coronavirus pandemic may come at the expense of another species: sharks. /news/2020-10-shark-potential-covid-vaccine.html Ecology Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:03:35 EDT news523206210 Published in Advanced Functional Materials, a University of Sydney team of biomedical engineers has developed a plasma technology to robustly attach hydrogels—a jelly-like substance which is structurally similar to soft tissue in the human body—to polymeric materials, allowing manufactured devices to better interact with surrounding tissue. /news/2020-08-hydrogel-paves-biomedical-breakthrough.html Materials Science Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:00:02 EDT news515669062 A team of researchers with members from several institutions in China, one in the U.S. and one in Belgium, has developed a method for 3-D printing an ear inside of the body. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes their method and how well it worked on test mice. /news/2020-06-near-infrared-d-ear-body.html Polymers Materials Science Mon, 08 Jun 2020 08:46:19 EDT news510824766 In an aging population, the social impact of osteoarthritis (OA) can dramatically increase to become the most common musculoskeletal disease. However, at present, therapies are limited to palliative treatments or surgical intervention alone, since disease-modifying OA (DMOA) drugs are scarce, primarily due to the absence of relevant preclinical models of the disease. As a result, tissue engineers and materials scientists aim to develop in vitro models for reliably predicting the efficacy of the requisite DMOA drugs. /news/2019-06-osteoarthritic-oa-phenotype-cartilage-on-a-chip-coc.html Biotechnology Mon, 17 Jun 2019 09:30:01 EDT news479976329 On May 4, a National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)-supported tissue-chip system with direct clinical applications to health conditions here on Earth was launched on the SpaceX CRS 17/Falcon 9 rocket. /news/2019-05-tissue-chip-international-space-station.html Space Exploration Wed, 08 May 2019 07:39:00 EDT news476519930 When traveling in space, astronauts experience physiological changes normally associated with aging, such as bone loss, muscle deterioration and altered immune systems. When the astronauts return to Earth, the changes often reverse. To better understand the relevance of the astronauts' experience to human health—both on the ground and beyond—NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) partnered with the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory (ISS National Lab) to send tissue chips, a research technology that reflects the human body, into space. The ISS National Lab and NASA partner to use the U.S. portion of the space station for research initiatives leveraging the unique microgravity environment in space. /news/2018-12-tissue-chips-rocket-international-space.html Space Exploration Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:27:22 EST news463159634 Mechanical forces rule biological processes, from the contractions of the pump-like heart, to muscles that resemble strings and pullies, and cells that carry out microscopic tugs-of-war. /news/2017-10-body-cells-resist-mechanobiology.html Other Fri, 20 Oct 2017 06:32:42 EDT news427699953 Models of human disease are beneficial for medical research, but have limitations in predicting the way a drug will behave within the human body using data from non-human models because of inherent differences between species. Many medications produce unexpected outcomes in the clinical trial stage using human subjects, despite success in animal models and even 2-D cell culture models using human cells. The "Organs-on-Chips" approach to human physiology research aboard the International Space Station may lead to more reliable and predictable results for drug development and reduce the need for animal testing. /news/2017-06-casis-partnership-organs-on-chips-space-station.html Space Exploration Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:15:24 EDT news417255310 A picture may be worth a thousand words. But new imaging technology that harmonizes mighty and distinctive microscopes may tell a complex story about a disease or condition – how it develops and how it can be treated precisely. /news/2017-03-imaging-technology-scientists-clinicians-visualize.html Analytical Chemistry Thu, 02 Mar 2017 07:40:01 EST news407661407 In Robert Langer's vision of the future, the paralyzed walk, the sick are healed, the maimed are whole again, and it all happens through bioengineering. /news/2014-02-biomaterials-21st-century.html Materials Science Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:20:01 EST news310719532 (Â鶹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- A new method for creating nanofibers made of proteins, developed by researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), promises to greatly improve drug delivery methods for the treatment of cancers, heart disorders and Alzheimer's disease, as well as aid in the regeneration of human tissue, bone and cartilage. /news/2012-02-nanofiber-breakthrough-medicine-microprocessors.html Nanomaterials Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:53:58 EST news249735214 Zoologists of the University Jena (Germany) analysed the central factor for the development of the morphologically distinctive features of the tadpoles. "We were able to show that the 'FOXN3' most of all influences the development of the cartilages in the oral region and the gills," professor Dr. Lennart Olsson points out. These structures in particular belong to the evolutionary new developments typical of frogs, which are missing in other amphibians. /news/2011-01-evolution-frogs.html Plants & Animals Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:45:22 EST news214137895 (Â鶹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- In future, cartilage, tendon and blood vessel tissue will be produced in the laboratory, with cells being grown on a porous frame, such as non-wovens. A new software program helps to characterize and optimize the non-wovens. /news/2009-05-non-wovens-scaffolds-artificial-tissue.html Engineering Mon, 04 May 2009 16:12:56 EDT news160672320 A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish collection and a fish and wildlife biologist with more than 20 years of sampling fish in Puget Sound. /news/2007-09-rare-albino-ratfish-eerie-silvery.html Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:53:46 EDT news109864426