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Tiny nanopackages built out of DNA help scientists peek at how neurons work
30/08/2017
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A team of scientists from the University of Chicago designed a way to use microscopic capsules made out of DNA to deliver a payload of tiny molecules directly into a cell. The technique, detailed Aug. 21 in Nature Nanotechnology, gives scientists an ...
Magnetothermal Genetics: A Fourth Tool in the Brain-Hacking Toolbox
30/08/2017
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A scientist wanting to hack into an animal’s brain used to have three different tools to choose from: electric current, drugs, and light. Now there’s a fourth: magnetic fields. In a paper published last week in the open-access journal eLife, scientis...
Replacement Joints with Antibiotics on Board Mean Lower Chance of Infection & Fewer Surgeries
18/08/2017
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For about a million Americans each year, a joint replacement brings relief from pain and restored mobility. But, 5–10% of those people have to endure another surgery within seven years, and most of those are due to an infection in their new joint. If...
Sound Sensitive On Demand Pain Relief
18/08/2017
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Imagine a small hand-held device that could be directly placed on the skin and with the press of a button localized pain would vanish. Sound like something you would see in an episode of Star Trek, right? If a team of investigators, led by scientists...
Fiber Lasers: 2 μm thulium fiber laser offers precision surgery promise
18/08/2017
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Thulium (Tm3+)-doped fiber lasers are of increasing interest for life science applications for two key reasons: first, their near-infrared (near-IR) output at 1940 nm falls within the broad 1900 nm absorption band of liquid water, enabling a host of ...
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Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions
10/03/2016
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The CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the potential to be abused. Video provided by NewsyT...