Good news is coming from a group of researchers who succeeded in causing robust regeneration of nerve connections after spinal cord injury. The researchers turned back the developmental clock of rodents by deleting PTEN enzyme which enabled growth of corticospinal tract nerve connections.
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The Kepler probe, which was launched more than a year ago, has found, within 6 weeks of operation outside our solar system, five new solar systems in the Milky Way and identified over 700 bodies that could be new planets.
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Eindhoven University of Technology is starting new research with aims of developing nano-structured solar cells that can attain an efficiency of more than 65 percent. The researchers claim that nanotechnology, in combination with the use of concentrated sunlight through mirror systems, has the potential to lead to the world’s most efficient solar cell system with a cost price lower than 50 cent per Watt peak.
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Scientists synthesized a complete bacterial genome and used it to take over a cell. This new breakthrough can lead to new technologies of biofuels, vaccines, and more. Synthetic Genomics has a contract with ExxonMobil to generate biofuels from algae.
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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a way to grow and maintain adult stem cells in large amounts for weeks. Until now it was impossible to keep stem cells ‘alive’ for more than 4-5 days. this discovery can lead to applications for regeneration of organs, inhibition of cancer cell growth and more.
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is on its way to be fully functional as it was restarted last night. The 5.6 billion dollars project which is built inside a 27-kilometer tunnel is aimed at understanding the origins of the universe by recreating the conditions that followed the Big Bang.
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Extrenely rare 1,300-year-old fragments of Hebrew biblical manuscripts existed separately and with their relationship unknown until an accidental discovery found the link between them. Together, they make up the text of the Song of the Sea which is shown now at Israel’s national museum.
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Scientists from Monash University discovered new effective way of treating prostate cancer – the second most common cancer for men in the world. The new treatment deals with resistent cells which cannot be cured using existing treatments by activating the beta estrogen receptor in the prostate.
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Scientists discovered new method to manufacture efficient piezoelectric materials cheaply. The new material PZT has efficiency of 80% for converting mechanical energy into electricity and this new discovery can lead to development of medical devices like pacemakers that do not require periodic surgical battery replacement.
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For the first time, scientists have shown great improvements on memroy tests and cognitive functions in mice with Alzheimer’s disease after injecting stem cells to those mice.
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