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Back-to-School Season for Your Immune Cells [Mad Biology]io9 - Nov 16, 2008 This adorable little ant can be trusted to carry quite a lot on its back in the interest of the common good. In that way, it's surprisingly similar to the cells of your immune system, as researchers from MIT and … Also tagged: mit, harvard, mad biology |
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Grow Back the Missing Pieces of Your Heart [Mad Science]io9 - Nov 2, 2008 When raising a building, construction workers first create a scaffold, a rough framework that mimics the structure of the completed project. As it turns out, biological engineers do the same thing when they develop … Also tagged: video, medicine, cardiology, mit, harvard, mad science |
io9 - Aug 18, 2008
In fifty years, standard-issue supersoldiers will boast exoskeletons that make bullet-proof vests obsolete. In fact, at the rate researchers are figuring out bone synthesis, you could have an exoskeleton even sooner …
io9 - Jul 18, 2008
It's the next step on the path to robust tissue engineering and synthetic meat. Researchers today announced that they'd used special progenitor cells to grow human blood vessels inside mice. The vessels grew after …
Also tagged: science, biology, angiogenesis, mad science
io9 - Apr 23, 2008
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are putting their money where their mouths are with a million dollar contest to see who can grow edible, tasty chicken nugget meat in a lab by 2012. The prospect of …
Also tagged: peta, chicken nuggets
io9 - Apr 14, 2008
In five years, you'll be eating a hamburger that no animal died for. Instead, that burger will have been grown from a tiny sample of cells in a plant-and-mushroom bath. The cow who donated the cells will be frolicking …
Also tagged: vegetarianism, food, top, biology, meat, environmentalism, mad science
io9 - Apr 4, 2008
Welcome to Ask a Biogeek, a column about cutting-edge biology by UC Berkeley researcher Terry Johnson. Knowing which organs you can live without is all well and good, but wouldn't you rather have replacement organs? …