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Artificial Bone Marrow Tissue Engineered

Researchers have developed an artificial tissue in which human blood stem cells remain functional for a prolonged period of time.
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Wireless System Can Power Smart Devices Inside the Body

Researchers have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body.
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Cocaine Use Alters Gene Expression in Brain Reward Circuits

A study in Biological Psychiatry investigates transcriptome-wide alterations in response to cocaine self-administration in mice.

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Cloud Pharmaceuticals forms Drug Design Collaboration with GSK

Cloud will use its Artificial Intelligence-driven process to design novel molecules.
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Role of Glia in Sleep Investigated in Drowsy Worms

Scientists shed new light on the transitions between a wakeful, active state and the stillness of sleep
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6 Common Types of Disgust Evolved to Make us Avoid Parasites

Findings could help to target public health messaging, for example to encourage handwashing with soap or to counter the stigma associated with sickness
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Protein Pair Provides Blueprint for Future Drugs

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have visualised for the first time how the protein SOCS1 'switches off' cell signalling to dampen immune responses and block cancer growth.
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1 in 5 Deaths Among Young Adults in the US is Opioid-related

New research suggests that 1 in 5 deaths among young adults in the United States is opioid-related. The study was led by researchers at the St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, ON, results were published in JAMA Network Open today.
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Neuroprotective Molecule Could Improve Memory and Cognition

Researchers have published a research study in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters that identifies a small molecule SERCA activator that may improve memory and cognition. The molecule corrects cells' calcium ion balance and represents a new therapeutic strategy for neurodegeneration drug development.
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Dolphin Echolocation Could Improve Medical Ultrasound

Millions of years of evolutionary fine-tuning have made dolphins phenomenally good at using echolocation to orient themselves, find food and communicate with one another. But how do they actually do it? New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that they emit two intertwined ultrasound beam components at different frequencies – and with slightly different timing.
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