In spite of being 80 percent water, cartilage is tough stuff. Now, a synthetic material can pack even more H2O without compromising on strength.
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It’s one thing for a robot to sort through a pile of rigid objects like blocks, but what about softer stuff?
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White blood cells get busy taking out the trash – it could be a lifesaver when the immune system goes haywire.
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U-M researchers have devised a process that can grow hundreds of cultured cancer cell masses, called spheroids, from just a few tumor cells derived from a patient.
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“My God, what have we done?” The new technology of nuclear nonproliferation
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An in-depth look at the work of T-cells, the body’s bacteria killers, could provide a roadmap to effective drug treatments.
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The most powerful Hall thruster the world has ever seen showed its mettle at NASA Glenn
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Energy-intensive industries have been waiting for a low-cost, low-toxicity thermoelectric generation material. It’s here.
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S. Shankar Sastry, Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley delivers the The 2017 Michael Korybalski Distinguished Lecture.
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Sound is easy to spoof. New technology could help close this ‘open’ channel.
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