Mass spec technique maps metabolites

Bioscience Technology: What would you do with a camera that can take a picture of something and tell you how new it is? If you’re Berkeley Lab scientists Katherine Louie, Ben Bowen, Jian-Hua Mao and Trent Northen, you use it to gain… Read more »

Photo: Berkeley Lab

Nanoclays Help Create Improved Bone Growth Scaffolds

Medgadget: Bone regenerates pretty slowly, but because it is hard tissue it is a good candidate for using scaffolds to guide its growth. All sorts of materials are being researched, and some already in use that can help orthopedic surgeons speed… Read more »

Photo: Department of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University

Wireless plus medical implants—The answer to antibiotic resistance?

Amazing work is being done by John Rogers and his team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  They’ve created remote controlled electronic implants, bio-absorbable electronic circuits, that are designed to attack microbes, provide pain relieve, stimulate bone growth, and then… Read more »

Researchers to present optical techniques for counting single viruses outside the lab

BioOptics World: BioOptics World: Two separate teams of researchers have developed new optical methods for determining the exact viral load of a sample by counting individual virus particles. These new methods are faster and cheaper than standard tests and they offer the… Read more »