Respiratory diseases
> Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have invented a new method for designing artificial proteins and have used it to make key ingredients for an experimental vaccine against a deadly childhood respiratory disease. Release
Tissue engineering
> Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Carnegie Mellon University are using a new microrobotic technique in 3-D printing. Release
Aging
> To find out exactly how Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases are connected to the aging process, investigators at Rutgers University-Camden are studying very small RNA molecules in the common fruit fly. Report
Fatty liver disease
> A biological switch that regulates a protein identified by Johns Hopkins scientists has been found to cause fatty liver disease in mice. Item