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Warmer Climate, Denser Ice
With youth-led strikes all over the world demanding change and the UN 25th International Climate Conference coming up in Chile, climate change is becoming an increasingly relevant issue today. New...
Discovery of Superelastic Properties in Mammalian Epithelial Cells
In October 2018, Nature published a study titled “Active superelasticity in three-dimensional epithelia of controlled shape”1 which provided evidence for the appearance of cell superelasticity in mammalian epithelial cells upon...
Stanford Researchers Identify Human Bone Stem Cells
In a study published on September 20, 2018, a team of researchers at the Stanford University of Medicine identified a multipotent human skeletal stem cell that gives rise to new...
Ferrofluids: The Magnetic Liquid Dancer
The 1900s brought about countless exciting inventions from all across the globe. Sometimes a little mysterious, many of these inventions were intriguing and versatile. One such invention was the ferrofluid,...
Brain-on-a-Chip: Another One of the Organ-on-a-Chip Inventions
Bioengineering has rapidly evolved in the past decade, with novel technologies constantly introduced to study challenging subjects. A product of this era of rapid technological evolution, the “brain-on-a-chip” device was...
