Scientists have increased the stiffness, or “elastic modulus”, of a soft silicon-based polymer by infusing it with tiny pockets of liquid gallium
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Lab-grown human colons could change study of GI disease
Stem cell derived organoids fill gap in modeling common ailments
Sweet bioactive nanomaterial can promote bone growth
A novel “sugar-coated” nanomaterial can promote the growth of new bone, as well as other bodily tissues, with minimal use of growth factor
Lights, camera, CRISPR: Biologists use gene editing to store movies in DNA
Technique demonstrated in E. coli suggests ways to record key events in a cell’s life
Making vessels leaky on demand could aid drug delivery
Scientists use magnets and nanoparticles to open, close gaps in blood vessels
Artificial spider silk pulled out of hydrogel
Scientists have developed a method for pulling super-stretchy and strong fibers with properties similar to spider silk out of a hydrogel
A living programmable biocomputing device based on RNA
Can sense and analyze multiple complex signals in living cells for future synthetic diagnostics and therapeutics
Chip captures individual cells in minuscule gels
Novel method keeps cells alive for multiple weeks, which makes it easier to study them
First U.S. team to gene-edit human embryos revealed
Editing embryos early in development could avoid technical hurdles of previous work