Nanoparticles originally developed for industry have an unexpected effect: They triple or even quadruple the life of rat brain cells, suggesting that they could help extend human lifespan and decrease age-related health problems.
It has been predicted that nanotechnology will revolutionize modern medicine, through such things as new materials that are more easily absorbed by [...]

Breast tissue grown on pigs could lead to new breasts for women who undergo a mastectomy and a new stem cell technique for growing organs to order.
Scientists from the Bernard O’Brien Institute in Melbourne grew tissue from pig stem cells into fat tissue in a pig’s body.
While it’s not the first time that scientists [...]

Some 30 years ago, Buckminster Fuller came up with a plan to plug all the world’s continents into the same electrical grid. The idea was to let power flow between, say, Siberia and the northwestern US, or Norway and Laos. Energy companies dismissed the notion as pie in the sky – and then proceeded to [...]

“Human” embryonic stem cells have been harvested from cloned embryos created by fusing human cells with rabbit eggs, claims a soon-to-be published report by Chinese scientists.
The goal of the experiments by Hui Zhen Sheng of Shanghai Second Medical University was to create a new source of embryonic stem cells (ESCs). These have the ability to [...]