Researchers at Rice University, in Europe, and in Singapore discover band gaps in spider silk
Water-based material could be used to make artificial skin, longer-lasting contact lenses
Researchers hope to create new tissue that can replace or protect damaged muscle after a heart attack
“We are going from human-computer interaction to human-machine interaction.”
Inexpensive method could slow spread of outbreak, future pandemic diseases
New technique offers cheaper, faster method to create heart tissue for testing drugs and modeling disease
The key is a photo-initiating chemical compound
Technique could shrink the space needed to store digital data that today would fill a Walmart supercenter down to the size of a sugar cube
Berkeley Lab scientist Ee-Been Goh thrives on re-engineering bacteria and mentoring students
"Our method is a valuable platform for imaging and studying the effect of rotation at the single cell level."
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