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BrainGate chip enables 2 tetraplegics to control robotic arms
A chip, about as big as a baby aspirin and implanted in the motor cortex, enabled two people paralyzed by a brain stem stroke who couldn't move their arms and legs to control robotic arms with their thoughts.
DNA origami could allow for 'autonomous' delivery
Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute are using the method to develop self-assembling, self-destructing drug delivery vessels.
'Green' nanoparticles get drugs across blood-brain barrier
Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital are taking a cue from the body's natural delivery method to get drugs across the blood-brain barrier.
The Vatican cancels stem cell conference
You may want to sit down for this one: The Vatican had planned to hold a conference on stem cell research next month, but now it's canceled.
Harvard's tiny DNA robots deliver cancer-killing treatment in lab
Drug delivery is becoming seriously sci-fi: Harvard University scientists successfully created a nano-like robot out of DNA that they believe can be a drug delivery stealth bomber, Bloomberg reports....
In a breakthrough, scientists blame tau proteins for spreading Alzheimer's
After more than 25 years of debate, researchers in two separate studies have determined that messed-up tau proteins spread Alzheimer's disease from brain cell to brain cell. And they envision a...
'Smart' nanotech may help treat Type 1 diabetes
Boston-based researchers may have figured out how to develop and use "smart" nanotherapeutics to treat patients with Type 1 diabetes . In their in vitro work, scientists from Children's...
Hormone irisin eyed as possible weight loss drug ingredient
The hormone irisin—generated in large amounts during exercise—may have a future as an obesity drug, Harvard University scientists have discovered in a new study published in the journal
