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Stanford's new cell therapy cures type 1 diabetes in mice

Researchers at Stanford found a way to cure or prevent Type 1 diabetes in mice using a combined blood stem cell and islet cell transplant. The procedure creates a hybrid immune system that stops ... Read More

Perovskite–silicon solar cells last longer under heat with new molecular layer

Solar panels made from silicon already adorn rooftops and vast fields around the world—but they are reaching their performance limits. Researchers are now pairing silicon with a promising material ... Read More

Newly identified immune cell type could hold key to preventing scar tissue buildup in wounds

Researchers at the University of Arizona have uncovered a previously unknown population of circulating immune cells that play a critical role in fibrosis, the buildup of scar tissue that can lead to ... Read More

High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice

A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a breakthrough in brain imaging by developing the world's first technology to ... Read More

New lab-made bone marrow model is a bioengineering first

Understanding how bone marrow produces blood–and how this whole process can fail–is critical to fighting blood cancers and other disorders. However, most bone marrow research relies on non-human ... Read More

Genetic engineering: Changing the number of chromosomes in plants using molecular scissors

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases – the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ... Read More

MIT ultrasonic tech pulls drinking water from air in minutes

MIT engineers have created an ultrasonic device that rapidly frees water from materials designed to absorb moisture from the air. Instead of waiting hours for heat to evaporate the trapped water, the ... Read More

Watch live plant cells build their cell walls

For the first time, high-resolution time-lapse videos of tiny bits of living plants show how they assemble their protective cell walls, researchers report March 21 in Science Advances. The image ... Read More

2026 Rhodes Scholar, Highly Cited Researchers List, American Academy of Sciences and Letters Elections

From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently. Read More