We’ve heard about the spray-on skin gun back in 2008 but we didn’t think it’d become this real, this useful, this fast. Though it is still technically in an experimental stage, the skin gun has already successfully treated over a dozen burn victims. The way it works is by using stem cells from the patient’s healthy skin and mixing it with a solution to come up with the spray paint. And combined with that fancy gun, the rest is easy. Doctors say skin cell spraying is like paint spraying
— via w–hawkins.newsvine.com
Scientists believe they are a step nearer to developing a reliable blood test for variant CJD, the human form of BSE and say their prototype is 100,000 times more sensitive than any previous attempt — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Stolzmann’s fish-eating rat was one of the rarest mammals in the world, known from only seven specimens — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists in New Zealand say they have found part of the famed Pink Terraces which were feared destroyed in a volcanic eruption 135 years ago — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Brazil’s environmental agency says the largest orchid in the world
is growing in a botanic garden in the capital, at a height of 2.5 metres with some stems measuring as long as three metres — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Labrador retriever has sniffed out bowel cancer in breath and stool samples during a study in Japan — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Smaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite. In an article appearing online 30 January in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, EPFL’s Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) publishes a study showing that this material has distinct advantages over traditional silicon or graphene for use in electronics applications — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Frogs re-evolved lost
bottom teeth after more than 200 million years, according to new research — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A bat and a carnivorous plant in Borneo enjoy an unusual mutually beneficial relationship, according to a new paper.
The discovery, outlined in the latest Royal Society Biology Letters, represents only the second known case of a mutualistic association between a carnivorous plant and a mammal. The other case was reported in 2009, when scientists saw three tree shrews pooping into the pitchers of another carnivorous plant — via ABC Science
DNA analysis has shown that the Egyptian jackal, previously believed to be a subspecies of the golden jackal, is a relative of the grey wolf — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two Australian PhD graduates from Victoria University have combined wool with gold and silver nanoparticles to create a new range of textiles.
Dr Fern Kelly and Dr Kerstin Burridge completed parallel research projects that pioneered a way of embedding tiny nanoparticles of gold and silver in New Zealand wool, resulting in colourful textiles that have functional and aesthetic benefits. Kelly worked with silver and Burridge with gold — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian scientists have found a way to capture the image of the tiny malaria parasite as it invades a human red blood cell — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A polar bear swam continuously for over nine days, covering 687km (426 miles), a new study has revealed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One reason why people with diabetes can suffer more damage during strokes has been discovered by US scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In September, a privately held and highly secretive US biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for a proprietary organism
– a genetically engineered cyanobacterium that produces liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (US) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, fossil fuels on demand
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Paleontologists said Thursday they discovered the 85-million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown squid species from the Cretaceous era in the high jungle region of northeastern Peru — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The CSIRO has aired tentative plans to expand its datacentre footprint in the nation’s capital, calling for expressions of interest from vendors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new drug for skin cancer can slow the spread of the disease in half of patients, thereby extending their lives, a study says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of Japan’s largest glass manufacturers debuted on Thursday a new glass designed for smartphones and tablet PCs that is considerably tougher than conventional glass.
Asahi Glass said its Dragontrail glass is about six times as tough as typical chemically-treated soda lime glass and should be better suited to the rough-and-tumble life to which portable gadgets are subjected — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian National University in Canberra could soon house artefacts from Washington’s Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after a landmark agreement between the two institutions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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