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Robot Culture Machine Efficiently Grows Biological Cells Without Human...
Robotic Cell FactoryThis robotic cell factory can churn out 500 cell cultures a month.© Fraunhofer IPMThe tedious, carpal-tunnel-inducing pipette work of cell biologists may soon be relegated to...
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Cyborg Yeast's Genes Are Controlled By a Computer
Brewer's YeastSaccharomyces cerevisiae under the microscope.WikipediaThe ability to make cells do our bidding would be a major advance in everything from drug production to biofuels, but it's difficult...
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Video: International Cell Race Clocks Cells Speeding Along Microscopic Race...
Cell RaceWorld Cell RaceOn your mark ... get set ... mitosis! A clump of bone marrow cells are the fastest cells in the world, moving at a glacial pace of 5.2 microns per minute across a petri dish....
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New Primordial Protozoan Species Is Not in Any Known Kingdom of Life
New Life Form This strange protozoan has four flagella. The rest of the entire tree of life is divided by organisms that have either one or two flagella.UiO/MERGA tiny microorganism found in Norwegian...
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DNA Inside Cells Can Serve As Rewritable Data Storage
DNA StorageUnder ultraviolet light, petri dishes containing cells glow red or green depending upon the orientation of a specific section of genetic code inside the cells' DNA. The section of DNA can be...
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Video: Lab-on-a-Chip Sorts Particles in Blood Using Pinball-Machine-Like Ramps
Tumbling Down the RampsThis image shows magnetically labeled tumor cells (yellow spheres), together with red and white blood cells and platelets. The ramps act as speed bumps, slowing the tumor cells...
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Scientists Outsmart the Immune System to Better Match People with Organs
HeartlessIn the U.S., 3,200 patients are currently waiting for a donor heart. About 300 will die this year before receiving one.Kevin Curtis/Getty ImagesOne of the most vexing problems that confronted...
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"Acoustic Tweezers" Can Manipulate Tiny Organisms Using Sound Waves
Acoustic TweezersXiaoyun Ding, Stephen J. Benkovic, and Tony Jun HuangTired of grabbing cells and roundworms with clumsy tools? This set of acoustic tweezers -- a device the size of a dime -- uses...
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Scientists Turn Adult White Blood Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells
DHM Image of Red Blood CellsWikimedia CommonsDespite the ethical and political differences they incite, stem cells are still a miraculous medicine, potentially able to change into whatever a sick body...
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Sculptures Reimagine Pasta And Bamboo As Bacteria And DNA
Blue BacteriumSinead FoleyArtist Sinead Foley remakes kitchen goods, modeling them on the microscopic. Click to enter the galleryWe only know a few things about these sculptural interpretations of the...
View ArticleWatch A Virus Infect An E. Coli Cell
Observing a virus infecting a cell for the first time has changed the way we understand the process. Ten years ago, Ian Molineux hypothesized that the virus T7, a bacteriophage capable of infecting...
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How Two Scientists Make 3-D Holographic Movies Of Individual Cells
3D Holographic MicroscopyI see inside you.Yann Cotte - Fatih Toy - EPFLA new method for nanoscale spying on cells' lives. The microscopy world just went from studying still photo galleries to watching...
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Scientists Insert A Light-Emitting Bioprobe Into A Living Cell
Bio BeamA nanobeam inserted into a single cell. The photonic cavities on the beam "act like a nanoscale hall of mirrors," concentrating light at the center of the beam.Gary Shambat, Stanford School of...
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Mice Get Smarter After Scientists Inject Them With Human Brain Cells
Wild Lab MouseTambako the JaguarResearchers show how glial cells can give mice a boost. When you think of a brain, you might imagine a flashing chain of neurons beaming messages to one another. But a...
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Retractions Won't Help If Nobody Reads Them
David VauxWalter and Eliza Hall Institute via Retraction WatchA scientist explains the frustrating road to publishing contradictory findings, and why he ended up pulling his own article instead....
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Herpes Virus Shoots DNA Into Human Cells With Crazy High Internal Pressure
Herpes Entering A CellBauer et al.Herpes, having a blast. Scientists have long theorized that herpes viruses are so stuffed with genetic material that infecting a host cell is as easy as popping a...
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How Biological Patents Promote Research And Save Lives
Patenting PathogensRyan SnookPatenting viruses doesn't restrict research--it gives an incentive to do more research. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people can't patent isolated human genes,...
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New Primordial Protozoan Species Is Not in Any Known Kingdom of Life
New Life Form This strange protozoan has four flagella. The rest of the entire tree of life is divided by organisms that have either one or two flagella. UiO/MERG A tiny microorganism found in...
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DNA Inside Cells Can Serve As Rewritable Data Storage
DNA Storage Under ultraviolet light, petri dishes containing cells glow red or green depending upon the orientation of a specific section of genetic code inside the cells' DNA. The section of DNA can...
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Video: Lab-on-a-Chip Sorts Particles in Blood Using Pinball-Machine-Like Ramps
Tumbling Down the Ramps This image shows magnetically labeled tumor cells (yellow spheres), together with red and white blood cells and platelets. The ramps act as speed bumps, slowing the tumor cells...
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