An Italian team is inspired by weeds to create a biodegradable velcro
The “new Velcro” has made it possible to build small devices that help monitor the health of plants.
The “new Velcro” has made it possible to build small devices that help monitor the health of plants.
A xenotransplantation without rejection from pig to man: this is the magnificent result obtained by a US team
A new bioartificial kidney, the first in the world with these characteristics, can eliminate the need for transplants and dialysis.
A deadly poison that creates a lifesaving drug for transplants and strokes? Each medal always has another face.
A protein in red blood cells and tissue oxygenation underlie the cognitive aging process in mice.
The relationship between the intestinal microbiome and our diseases is now broad and clear: for vascular diseases and stroke there are new, important discoveries.
Healthcare is changing, and healthcare professions will change too. Not necessarily fewer jobs, but different. Here's what could be next.
The story of Nectome, the startup that can preserve the human brain to be able to digitize it in the future, and of its controversial method.
A curious experiment virtually showed the effects of swapping bodies with another person. The implications? Interesting.
The transhuman future will soon take us to a new level of consciousness: time to "regulate" new non-biological antennas and we will acquire a form of cyber immortality
An oxygenation technique recovers lungs to be transplanted otherwise considered unsuitable, and extends their availability.
A new method turns human pluripotent stem cells into insulin-producing cells, which quickly cured acute diabetes in mice.
A magazine from 20 years ago, on the eve of 1997, lined up the most accurate list of predictions for 2020. And some solemn absurdities. This is how they saw us.
The first experiments, confirmed on mice. Now the ones about dogs: George Church is proceeding quickly, and now it's certain: the reversal of aging within 20 years
Rapamycin continues to amaze: after having slowed down the aging of mice and other species, in the first study on human tissues it also shows that it counteracts skin aging. And it's just the beginning.
Increase telomere length and longevity in mice for the first time, and without any genetic alterations or side effects
The goal of ARMI, Dean Kamen's new creation, is ambitious: an "organ factory" that creates tissues and organs through biofabrication.
A 44-year-old is the first patient to regain his sight with innovative UK NHS treatment based on stem cells from the healthy eye
A team of scientists has greatly extended the time window in which a liver transplant can be stored while waiting to reach a patient. By modifying a protocol needed to preserve rodent livers, scientists observed results so promising that they were tested on a human liver for transplant. A donor liver had an average "life" of 9 hours, the new method brings this time to 27 hours. A lot more time to organize… Read more
The prospect of living forever exalts many, terrifies many. What weight does this aspiration and this fear have? The answer of 4 scientists.
ECMO is a machine capable of saving or making people who are already dead survive even for months. A miracle that however raises enormous ethical doubts