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Liquid-Gel Stops Bleeding
Clinical trials are planned
for a nano structured fluid that stops bleeding instantly.
The clear fluid transforms into a gel in the presence of
blood.
Nanohealing Material Heads to Market
Create a back-up
copy of your immune system
Imagine
having a spare copy of your immune system on ice, ready to
replace your existing one should you fall victim to AIDS,
an autoimmune disease, or have to undergo extensive
chemotherapy for cancer.
Immune backup
Babies
Growing
Outside
the
Womb
Artificial wombs are mechanisms that are used to
grow an embryo outside of the body of a female.
Could this be the future of reproduction for humans?
Scientists at Cornell University have grown mice
embryos in man-made, bubble shaped wombs.
Artificial
womb
Cell-Transistor Interface Clears Bioelectronics Hurdle
Researchers
at the Max Planck Institute (Munich, Germany) have
developed a cell-transistor interface that they believe
will usher in a new era of bioelectronics, allowing cells
to be manipulated and studied without destroying them in
the process.
Cell-Transistor Interface
Mending Broken
Hearts
Cheeseburgers, smoking, stress, the rise of the couch
potato: These are the usual suspects on the list of risk
factors for heart disease, a malady reaching global
epidemic proportions. Now discoveries about genetic
triggers may help us spot trouble before it starts.
National Geographic Interactive
Living Longer
According to
a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC),
a child born in the United States in 2005 can expect to
live nearly 78 years. But some futurists
believe that a child born today, might actually live
forever.
Living Longer
Pandemic Research
Influenza viruses are
classified as type A, B, or C based upon their protein
composition. Type A viruses are found in many kinds of
animals, including ducks, chickens, pigs, whales, and also
in humans. The type B virus widely circulates in humans.
Type C has been found in humans, pigs, and dogs and causes
mild respiratory infections, but does not spark epidemics.
Type A influenza is the
most frightening of the three. It is believed responsible
for the global outbreaks of 1918, 1957 and 1968.
Can technology protect us
from the
flu?
Pandemic Research
Artificial Bone Marrow
Biomedical researchers at
the University of Michigan have created artificial bone
marrow that can continuously make red and white blood
cells.
Biomedical researchers create artificial human bone marrow
in a test tube
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