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Sensitization after an Injury Increases Survival

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical School released the first piece of concrete evidence that nociceptive sensitization results in an adaptive advantage. Using squid (Doryteuthis pealeii)as their…

First Potentially Habitable Earth-sized Planet Confirmed

Researchers at the Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory have discovered a planet that could very much resemble our own. Every star has a zone on its orbit…

Medical applications of plasma energy

In a recent class titled Healthcare and Biotechnology in the 21st Century at the Thayer School of Engineering, Richard Satava, Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington,…

Why the Zebra Has Stripes

Scientists from University of California, Davis systematically examined the function of zebra stripes. From their analyses, many long-standing, but previously unconfirmed hypotheses were rejected, and it is now…

Regenerative Muscle Engineered

Biomedical engineers have managed to create a lab-grown skeletal muscle that behaves like the genuine tissue. It is capable of contraction, can be integrated naturally into mice, and…