A team of engineers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have developed a paper-thin speaker made from a flexible ultra-thin-film device with the potential to turn any rigid surface into a high-quality, low-power active sound source. The research, published in the IEEE Transactions of Industrial Electronics, shows that the manufacturing technique is relatively simple and [...]
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A research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego (USA) has discovered for the first time the enzymatic process that activates the molecule salinosporamide A (also called Marizomb), from a marine microorganism, which is currently in phase III clinical trials for the treatment of brain cancer. The study, published in Nature Chemical [...]
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Postdoctoral researcher Diego Balboa from the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), in collaboration with a research team from the University of Helsinki, has carried out a study showing that these pancreatic beta cells created from stem cells are capable of controlling glucose metabolism efficiently. This is due to its high ability to mimic the structure [...]
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A research group from Harvard University (USA), in collaboration with teams from Emory University, has designed and built the first fully autonomous biohybrid fish made from human heart stem cells. This research, published in the journal Science, is a very important step in the scientific understanding of the biophysical principles that make the heart work. [...]
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This operation, a pioneer in the field of medicine, has been carried out by a team of surgeons from the University of Maryland (USA). In it, the patient, David Bennett, 57, diagnosed with heart disease without treatment options through an ordinary transplant, received a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig. This achievement constitutes an [...]
The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona-IDIBAPS has developed a new CAR-T treatment for multiple myeloma, the second most common blood cancer, with encouraging results: “all patients improve, 75% of them maintain the response and not they have disease progression at 12 months, and 60% have complete remission without residual disease “, says Dr. Fernández de Larrea, [...]
