Regeneration

By The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) February 17, 2024A groundbreaking development in bone regeneration has been achieved with the creation of a piezoelectric scaffold by a KAIST-led research team. Utilizing hydroxyapatite (HAp) to generate electrical signals under pressure, this scaffold mimics the natural environment of bone tissue, showing promising results in promoting bone growth through both laboratory and animal studies. This advancement opens new pathways for biomaterial design and…

Researchers have developed a novel hydrogel that mimics human tissue to heal heart damage and improve cancer treatment personalization. This innovation promises to advance regenerative medicine and personalized therapies, marking a significant contribution to health innovation.Scientists develop a gel derived from wood pulp to repair damaged heart tissue and improve cancer treatments.You can mend a broken heart this Valentine’s day now that researchers invented a new hydrogel that can be used to heal damaged heart tissue…

Whenever a jellyfish loses a tentacle, it can regenerate the lost limb. For years, scientists have been baffled by exactly how these ocean creatures bring their lost limbs back to life, but now we seem to have made a breakthrough, at least partly solving the mystery of how jellyfish regeneration works.To fully understand the discovery that researchers have made, we first need to discuss how this type of regeneration usually works in animals. Starfish, salamanders, and even small hydrozoans all regenerate lost…

New research reveals how Cladonema jellyfish can regrow their tentacles in just a few days, highlighting the role of unique stem-like proliferative cells in this rapid regenerative process. This breakthrough offers insights into similar regenerative processes in other species. Credit: SciTechDaily.comJapanese scientists have uncovered that Cladonema jellyfish regenerate tentacles using stem-like proliferative cells, offering new insights into the blastema formation process and its evolutionary parallels in other species…

Recent research highlights the crucial role of cardiomyocytes and mitochondria in heart regeneration. The study suggests that modulating mitochondrial activity could enhance heart repair after damage, providing new insights for heart disease treatment. In the journal Circulation, the authors reveal an exciting new avenue of study for repairing damaged hearts. Think of them as the Energizer Bunnies of the heart, tiny natural batteries that keep this vital organ beating 100,000 times a day as it pumps 2,000 gallons of blood…

In contemporary fandom, canon is king. This is not a jab against an admiration of an ordered continuity and worldbuilding, the necessary aspects of creating a story to be lost in. But what goes beyond it—a yearning for raw, wiki-able data and facts that can be collated and held in amber, where interpretation gives way to a singular thesis—often threatens to override it. Which is why for Doctor Who, a show that has spent 60 years growing and changing and writing over and under itself, its latest shock is less about…

Image: Wizards of the CoastA few months ago Wizards’ latest Magic: Universes Beyond release celebrated 60 years of Doctor Who in style, with decks filled with cards from every era of the show... except its then-upcoming present. That’s all changing very soon, thankfully.Today Wizards of the Coast revealed the latest addition to its Secret Lair drop store is a special new Doctor Who 60th anniversary collection, simply titled Regeneration. “We do have a plan ,” Magic: The Gathering Principal Game Designer Gavin Verhey…

For a show that is often so optimistically forward thinking—and where change is baked into its hearts—Doctor Who often has a bittersweet view of its own past. Heroes and friends come and go, goodbyes are frequent and brief, and a lot of them are permanent, especially when part of the key to its longevity is that its main character dies every few years. But as a wise Time Lord once said, every once in a while, just occasionally, everybody lives.'Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police' | AI Unlocked“The Giggle,” the third…

In just a few short days, Doctor Who will conclude its trio of 60th anniversary specials in a flurry of spectacle—a climatic battle, the death of its familiarly faced current hero, and their regeneration into a new era starting just a few weeks later. For the most part, it’s celebrated this event without the typical trappings of past milestones, and replaced them with what has turned out to be a pretty radical concept: what if Doctor Who celebrated sticking around for 60 years by just being the best version of itself it…

An Anthrobot is shown, depth colored, with a corona of cilia that provides locomotion for the bot. Credit: Gizem Gumuskaya, Tufts University The multicellular bots move around and help heal “wounds” created in cultured neurons. Researchers at Tufts University and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute have created tiny biological robots that they call Anthrobots from human tracheal cells that can move across a surface and have been found to encourage the growth of neurons across a region of damage in a lab dish. The…