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Sensors envisage stroke recovery

Sensors envisage stroke recovery

30 January 2013 Last updated at 19:32 ET By Eleanor Bradford BBC Scotland Health Correspondent Academics and designers have come up with a device to help people recover from the physical effects of a stroke.

Sorting out stroking sensations: Biologists find individual neurons in skin that react to massage

Sorting out stroking sensations: Biologists find individual neurons in skin that react to massage

Jan. 30, 2013 — The skin is a human being’s largest sensory organ, helping to distinguish between a pleasant contact, like a caress, and a negative sensation, like a pinch or a burn

Sorting out stroking sensations: Biologists find individual neurons in skin that react to massage

Sorting out stroking sensations: Biologists find individual neurons in skin that react to massage

Jan. 30, 2013 — The skin is a human being’s largest sensory organ, helping to distinguish between a pleasant contact, like a caress, and a negative sensation, like a pinch or a burn

Sorting out stroking sensations: Biologists find individual neurons in skin that react to massage

Sorting out stroking sensations: Biologists find individual neurons in skin that react to massage

Jan. 30, 2013 — The skin is a human being’s largest sensory organ, helping to distinguish between a pleasant contact, like a caress, and a negative sensation, like a pinch or a burn

New technique sheds light on RNA

New technique sheds light on RNA

Jan. 28, 2013 — When researchers sequence the RNA of cancer cells, they can compare it to normal cells and see where there is more RNA.

Patients’ own skin cells are transformed into heart cells  to create ‘disease in a dish’

Patients’ own skin cells are transformed into heart cells to create ‘disease in a dish’

Jan. 27, 2013 — Most patients with an inherited heart condition known as arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C) don’t know they have a problem until they’re in their early 20s

Potential benefits and threats of nanotechnology research

Potential benefits and threats of nanotechnology research

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Magnetic levitation tissues could speed toxicity tests

Magnetic levitation tissues could speed toxicity tests

Jan. 24, 2013 — In a development that could lead to faster and more effective toxicity tests for airborne chemicals, scientists from Rice University and the Rice spinoff company Nano3D Biosciences have used magnetic levitation to grow some of the most realistic lung tissue ever produced in a laboratory.