Long-abandoned bacterial fermentation process resurrected to feed catalysis into fuel mixture A long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be used to produce renewable diesel fuel to replace the fossil fuels

Bacterial medicine is starting to emerge ONE of the crucial transitions of modern health care was from herbal to chemical medicine. Doctors had known for millennia that willow bark and poppy sap relieve pain. But

A way to take adult stem cells and convert them so they have the properties of embryonic stem cells A team of Duke Medicine researchers has engineered cartilage from induced pluripotent stem cells that were

The Coming Age of Enhancement IF a brain implant were safe and available and allowed you to operate your iPad or car using only thought, would you want one? What about an embedded device that

The science behind it is closer than many people may think A dystopian society supported by genetically modified clone workers stands out among the six stories that make up the sprawling film “Cloud Atlas.” The

Three Simon Fraser University scientists are among six researchers who’ve made a discovery that could help revolutionize antibiotic treatment of deadly bacteria. Lisa Craig, Christopher Ford and Subramaniapillai Kolappan, SFU researchers in molecular biology and biochemistry,

Colleagues have for the first time constructed “organoids” that can be integrated into a living animal and carry out kidney functions With a worldwide shortage of kidneys for patients who need kidney transplants, researchers are

The achievement is the latest success in the relatively new field of regenerative medicine A series of achievements have stoked excitement about the potential of regenerative medicine, which aims to tackle diseases by replacing or

The number of tasks they could undertake is limited only by evolution and human ingenuity. The circuit is designed to act as the controller in synthetic bacteria that monitor and modify their environment By force

“We’ve found compounds from the wild tomatillo that have strong anti-cancer properties against breast cancer, skin cancer, thyroid cancer and brain cancer in our early studies,” For decades the native prairie plant with tomato-like vines,

Loyola University Medical Center has launched the first clinical trial in the Midwest of an experimental melanoma treatment that genetically engineers a patient’s immune system to fight the deadly cancer. A batch of the immune

This could be useful for greenhouse gas mitigation, bioremediation or erosion control. The same “green revolution” concepts that have revolutionized crop agriculture and helped to feed billions of people around the world may now offer