Space Travel Found To Disrupt Normal Rhythm in Heart Muscle Cells | Low gravity weakens bioengineered heart tissues, impacting function and rhythm.

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Researchers have successfully repaired damaged mouse hearts using a protein from zebrafish. They discovered that the protein Hmga1 plays a key role in heart regeneration in zebrafish. In mice, this protein was able to restore the heart by activating dormant repair genes without causing side effects.

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This Blood Vessel Was Grown in a Lab With Real Human Cells

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Scientists engineered bacteria to grow glass coatings, turning them into tiny lenses. 🦠🔬 These could lead to flexible, eco-friendly cameras 📷🌱 and sensors — and may one day help make tools in space 🌌🛠️ without needing Earth supplies.

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Modified E. coli can be used to convert plastic waste into acetaminophen, an active ingredient in many painkillers 💊♻️

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New Research Dubs Umbilical Stem Cells “Holy Grail” in Bioengineering and Reconstructive Medicine 🌟🔬🧬

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Chemical engineers at EPFL have bioengineered microbes that can release electrons ⚛️, opening doors to bioelectronics powered by living cells 🌱🔋.

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Researchers engineer bacteria capable of consuming tumours from the inside out. Bacteria spores enter the tumour, finding an environment where there are lots of nutrients and no oxygen, which this organism prefers, and so it starts eating those nutrients and growing in size.

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Engineers create "neurobots": tiny, free-swimming assemblages of living cells that organize into self-directed systems, complete with neurons that wire themselves into functional circuits

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🔬 Scientists are now building robots out of living cells, moving beyond imitation to creating "neurobots." These self-directed systems, complete with self-wiring neurons, are built from frog cells and demonstrate integrated neural activity linked to observable movement.

💧 Early versions called xenobots, developed since 2020, were made from frog tissues and could move, repair damage, and even self-replicate without scaffolding or genetic manipulation.

🧠 Neurobots represent a significant leap by incorporating neurons that form functional circuits, allowing for more dynamic and internally guided actions compared to their mechanical predecessors.

🌍 Future applications for these living machines, including those made from human cells (anthrobots), range from precision tissue repair and environmental cleanup to sophisticated environmental sensing in settings like aquaculture and wastewater monitoring.

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Researchers pioneer method to rapidly design proteins: « Their strategy revealed new details that open the door to designing proteins with powerful abilities that could ultimately benefit medicine and manufacturing. »

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Growing human organs inside animals keeps failing because the host embryo's earliest immune cells eat the donor cells alive. Researchers found three ways to shut that off — and the success rate for growing a rat pancreas inside a mouse jumped from 38% to 73%.

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