A research group led by Daniel Aili, associate professor at LIU, has developed a bioink to print tissue-mimicking material in 3D printers. The scientists have developed a method and a material that allow cells to survive and thrive.

Italian biotech company Rigenerand has commenced development of a novel 3D bioreactor and pipeline, specifically designed for the incremental production of extracellular vesicles exosomes (EVs) in a cGMP environment. The company’s project development will be supported with part of a grant of $ 5 million from Horizon 2020 for the H2020-EU.1.2.2.-FET Proactive program, awarded to the Biogenic Organotropic Wetsuits project. This project comprises a consortium of companies involving Rigenerand.

Absolute Antibody and the University of Zurich aim to offer synthetic nanobodies against the receptor binding domain of Sars-Cov-2 which is responsible for causing Covid-19. The antibodies can be used for coronavirus diagnostics and therapeutic development.

A new polymeric heart valve with a life span potentially longer than current artificial valves has been developed by scientists at the universities of Bristol and Cambridge. The valves would also prevent the need for the millions of patients with diseased heart valves to require life-long blood thinning tablets.

An international team of scientists, of which the University of Granada is a member, has developed a new nanoparticle-based artificial retina prosthesis that can be injected into the eye. Thanks to this scientific finding, published recently in the prestigious journal Nature Nanotechnology, blind rats had their vision restored vision for eight months without the need for surgery.

When influenza viruses enter our body, the immune system recognises them as being foreign by means of various receptors and starts a defence programme.Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg recently studied the detailed role of a certain receptor in this first line of defence. They discovered that the receptor activates natural killer cells, which use messenger substances to activate other immune cells and then eliminate body cells that are infected by viruses.

Coastal flooding across the world is set to rise by around 50 % due to climate change in the next 80 years, endangering millions more people and trillions of US dollars more of coastal infrastructure, new research shows.

Identifying the source of infection is essential for taking action in outbreaks of Legionnaire's disease. The combination of immunomagnetic separation and flow cytometry delivers precise results in less than two hours and knows virtually no limits to the variety of applications.

The fatal disease smallpox is older and more widespread than scientists so far have proven. A new study by an international team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge shows that the Vikings also suffered from smallpox.

At abandoned oil and gas wells in the North Sea, considerable quantities of the potent greenhouse gas methane escape uncontrolled into the water. This is shown in a new study recently published by researchers from the Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.