Biotechnology

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What Is Neural Dust and How Does It Read Your Brain? Science

What Is Neural Dust and How Does It Read Your Brain?

Neural dust sensors smaller than a grain of salt can wirelessly monitor brain activity using ultrasound or laser power, opening new paths for treating...

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How Mass Spectrometry Works—and Why It Matters Science

How Mass Spectrometry Works—and Why It Matters

Mass spectrometry identifies molecules by measuring their mass-to-charge ratio. From drug discovery to forensics, this century-old technique underpins...

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What Are Lysosomes and Why Your Cells Need Them Science

What Are Lysosomes and Why Your Cells Need Them

Lysosomes are membrane-bound organelles that serve as the cell's recycling centers, breaking down waste and damaged components. When they malfunction,...

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Scientists Grow First Lab-Made Esophagus in Major Win Science

Scientists Grow First Lab-Made Esophagus in Major Win

Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL have created the first functional lab-grown esophagus, successfully implanting it in pigs that cou...

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How Molecular Solar Batteries Store Sunlight as Heat Science

How Molecular Solar Batteries Store Sunlight as Heat

Molecular solar thermal (MOST) systems capture sunlight in chemical bonds and release it as heat on demand — a rechargeable, emission-free approach to...

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World's Tiniest Brain Implant Tracks Neural Signals for a Year Health

World's Tiniest Brain Implant Tracks Neural Signals for a Year

Engineers at Cornell and Nanyang Technological University have created the MOTE — a wireless neural implant smaller than a grain of salt that recorded...

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Why Oral Insulin Is So Hard to Make—and How Close We Are Science

Why Oral Insulin Is So Hard to Make—and How Close We Are

Over 150 million people worldwide inject insulin daily. Scientists have spent a century trying to put it in a pill, but the human gut destroys the hor...

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How Animal Cloning Works—and Why It Has Limits Science

How Animal Cloning Works—and Why It Has Limits

Somatic cell nuclear transfer lets scientists copy mammals from a single body cell, but new research shows cloning hits a genetic dead end. Here is ho...

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How Nav1.8 Painkillers Work Without Causing Addiction Health

How Nav1.8 Painkillers Work Without Causing Addiction

Nav1.8 sodium channel blockers represent the first new class of non-opioid painkillers in over two decades, targeting peripheral pain signals before t...

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Australia Builds World's First Quantum Battery Prototype Science

Australia Builds World's First Quantum Battery Prototype

Australian researchers from CSIRO, RMIT University, and the University of Melbourne have created the first proof-of-concept quantum battery that compl...

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How Photopharmacology Works: Drugs Controlled by Light Science

How Photopharmacology Works: Drugs Controlled by Light

Photopharmacology embeds tiny molecular switches into drugs so doctors can turn them on or off with light, targeting treatment to exact body locations...

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Scientists Disable Alzheimer's 'Death Switch' in Mice Health

Scientists Disable Alzheimer's 'Death Switch' in Mice

Heidelberg University neurobiologists identified a toxic protein complex driving Alzheimer's progression and used a novel compound to disrupt it in mi...

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