The Nanoscale Orthopedic Biomaterials Laboratory I direct has two main thrusts. First, we develop instrumentation, models, and techniques that bridge the gap from the atomic to the microscale. We wish ...

Because of the simple laws of supply and demand, many people every year die waiting for an organ that might’ve saved their life. While advanced perfusion and xenotransplantation breakthroughs could ...

Hundreds of workers at the University of Strathclyde are to be balloted for strike action amid a row over job cuts. Unite the Union said over 400 workers will be balloted in response to proposed job ...

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In December, bosses at Scotland’s "university of the year” announced cost-cutting measures in a bid to save £35 million over the next two years. Now, the University and College Union (UCU) has ...

When ultraviolet light hits ice—whether in Earth's polar regions or on distant planets—it triggers a cascade of chemical reactions that have puzzled scientists for decades. Now, researchers at the ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University team has used stem cells extracted from adipose, the body's fatty tissue, to treat spine fractures in rats similar to those caused by osteoporosis in humans. These ...

Cells in humans and all vertebrates are tightly packed together to form organs and glands — tissues essential for living, breathing and moving. The narrow spaces between cells represent natural weak ...

Abstract: We present the fluidic and electrical packaging of a novel silicon-based trans-epithelial electrical resistance (TEER) sensor chip designed for a modular and standardized organ-on-chip (OoC) ...

Background: There are no proven therapies for right ventricular failure (RVF) and limited mechanistic studies to identify novel candidate targets. We found in human and mouse RVF robust, ...