Brain cell differences could be key to learning in humans and AI
Researchers have found that variability between brain cells might speed up learning and improve the performance of the brain and future AI.
Oct 6, 2021
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Security
Is your mobile provider tracking your location? This new technology could stop it.
Right now, there is a good chance your phone is tracking your location—even with GPS services turned off. That's because, to receive service, our phones reveal personal identifiers to cell towers owned by major network ...
Aug 12, 2021
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Team creates powerful computational tool to help researchers rapidly screen molecules for anti-COVID properties
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, mass vaccinations have begun to raise the tantalizing prospect of herd immunity that eventually curtails or halts the spread of SARS-CoV-2. But what if herd immunity is never fully achieved—or ...
May 3, 2021
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Tiny brains grown in 3D-printed bioreactor
Scientists from MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have grown small amounts of self-organizing brain tissue, known as organoids, in a tiny 3-D-printed system that allows observation while they grow and develop. ...
Apr 6, 2021
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Robotics
Microrobot system regenerates knee cartilage in rabbits
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China and one in Korea has developed a micro-robot system that regenerated knee cartilage in rabbits. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, ...
Engineering
Punching holes in opaque solar cells turns them transparent
Researchers in Korea have found an effective and inexpensive strategy to transform solar cells from opaque to transparent. Existing transparent solar cells tend to have a reddish hue and lower efficiency, but by punching ...
Dec 11, 2019
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Rapid magnetic 3-D printing of human cells
Imagine being able to visit your physician, and instead of being given a one-size-fits-all treatment, you are given a specifically customized medication for your symptoms.
Mar 25, 2019
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3-D bioprinted, vascularized proximal tubules mimic the human kidney's reabsorption functions
Every day our kidneys tackle the daunting task of continuously cleaning our blood to prevent waste, salt and excess fluid from building up inside our bodies. To achieve this, the kidneys' approximately one million filtration ...
Mar 4, 2019
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Engineers create miniature self-sealing 'wound'
Biomedical engineers have developed a miniature self-sealing model system for studying bleeding and the clotting of wounds. The researchers envision the device as a drug discovery platform and potential diagnostic tool.
Feb 7, 2018
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Organ-on-a-chip mimics heart's biomechanical properties
The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime. Now scientists at Vanderbilt University have created a three-dimensional organ-on-a-chip that can mimic the heart's amazing biomechanical properties.
Feb 22, 2017
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