Today on New Scientist: 25 May 2012

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Full text RSS - You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New Scientist. Solar-powered plane Solar Impulse is well into its first intercontinental journey from Payerne in Switzerland to Rabat in Morocco Trito ...
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10 captivating winners of the 2012 Bio-Art competition

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Due to a lack of blood vessels and other characteristics, cartilage heals very slowly. One way to accelerate natural cartilage repair and growth is to use tissue engineering, or the artificially-stimulated produc ...
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Healing weaving wins Bio-Art image competition

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Anyone who has had a cartilage injury knows that it heals slowly and often painfully, with joint swelling and stiffness. Frank Moutos and Farshid Guilak of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, are engineering tissues that could ...
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ETEX Corporation to present at the 9th World Biomaterial Congress

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ETEX Corporation, an advanced biomaterials company, today announced two presentations at the upcoming 9th World Biomaterial Congress, June 1-5, 2012 in Chengdu, China. ETEX will highlight their vertebral au ...
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Gallery: The Art in Biomedical Research

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The first-ever Bio-Art competition honored 10 images that are visually arresting and that illustrate a cutting-edge concept in biomedical research. Due to a lack of blood vessels and other characteristics, cartilage heals very s ...
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Company looking for bioplastics to grow

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ED HILLE Jeff White, president of Ecospan, said “There’s hurdles, but there’s so many opportunities” in bioplastics. PHILADELPHIA With all his talk about sugar cane, corn, casaba and fungi, Jeff White sounded like someone with a ...
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Fish Pedicures Could Cause Dangerous Bacterial Infections, CDC Warns

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It turns out that fish pedicures aren’t just a bizarre beauty ritual — they’re also potentially dangerous. This week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a new report that examined the ...
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