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Toxoplasma gondii, a “mind-controlling” parasite that causes the disease toxoplasmosis, has been found in public lands in Oahu, Hawaii for the first time, researchers have discovered. One of the ways that Toxoplasma gondii affects mice and rats is by tweaking their brain chemistry to change their behavior. Rodents typically avoid cats, […]
Developing efficient, sustainable, and biocompatible high‐tech nanoplatforms derived from naturally existing components in living organisms is highly beneficial for diverse advanced biomedical applications. Melanins are nontoxic natural biopolymers owning widespread distribution in various biosystems, possessing fascinating physicochemical properties and playing significant physiological roles. The multifunctionality together with intrinsic biocompatibility renders bioinspired […]
The design is inspired by the biological musculoskeletal system of the human foot and lower leg, mimicking the morphology and the functionality of the biological muscle–tendon–ligament structure. A key feature of the device is its soft structure that provides active assistance without restricting natural degrees of freedom at the ankle joint.
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Research on the lamprey brain has enabled scientists to push the birth of the cortex back in time by some 300 million years to over 500 million years ago, providing new insights into brain evolution. “That vital parts of the lamprey brain are conserved and organized in the same way as […]
CN Bio Innovations, a cell culture company that has developed organ-on-chip laboratory instruments to improve the accuracy and efficiency of drug discovery, has announced it has raised $9 million USD (circa £6.9 million GBP) investment, led by CITIC Securities Investment Co., Ltd., and supported by existing investor CN Innovations Holdings Ltd.CN […]
Biologists have discovered that a tiny parasite of salmon called “Henneguya salminicola” has no mitochondrial genome and thus has lost the ability to perform aerobic respiration. In the absence of oxygen, the mitochondria of these organisms have lost all or parts of their genomes and evolved into mitochondria-related organelles.
The swarm intelligence of honeybees has been studied and adapted by researches at the Georgia Institute of Technology in hopes of improving the efficiency of Internet servers faced with similar challenges. A bee dance-inspired communications system helps Internet servers that would normally be devoted solely to one task move between tasks […]
Creating an adhesive that can bond together bones has long presented researchers with some sticky problems. Many glues will not adhere to slick, wet surfaces, and those that do still tend to dissolve into the surrounding liquid. When setting shattered bones, surgeons instead must turn to metal screws and plates, a […]
Researchers from Rutgers University, New Jersey, have created bio-inspired, programmable micro-needles that enhance tissue adhesion using Projection micro-stereolithography (PµSL). Influenced by the micro-hooks of parasites, barbed stingers of honeybees, and quills of porcupines, 4D printed backward-facing barbs were fabricated and designed to deform horizontally to be minimally […]
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I imagine that the neurological circuits underlying these processes are governed by both 2d spacing maps with their brains as…
to reduce the impact of car accidents, it may be possible to study the force diverting physics of cockroaches to…
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The brain functions in a similar way with neuronal connections. our brains are able to utilize the multiplicity of connections…