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Vaccines are designed to mimic aspects of the microbe they hope the help the body build immunity to. Typically, this means dead or weakened versions of the microbe... Read More »
Researchers from MIT announced last week that they have engineered tiny particles made out of RNA and DNA, utilizing a technique called “nucleic acid... Read More »
Unique patterns generate when two immiscible fluids flow together and this has been a factor for scientists to develop a new tool for studying tiny... Read More »
A new test to diagnose celiac disease could be available in the near future. The disease causes gluten intolerance, leading to inflammation of the small intestine... Read More »
Enjoy this week’s wrap up of trending medical news!
Rats paralyzed due to spinal cord injury walking again thanks to new therapy
Rats that... Read More »
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a method for building complex nanostructures out of short ... Read More »
Just one decade ago, sequencing an entire human genome cost upwards of $10 million and took about three years to complete. Now, several companies are racing to... Read More »
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Ann ConkleHard to believe that the price has fallen so far, so fast. It's very easy to envision the day when genome sequencing is part of routine health care.
May 29, 2012
Here's your weekly wrap up of the top medical news!
Baby kept alive with world’s smallest artificial heart
Italian doctors are reporting that... Read More »
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Aurora SterlingThe connections between industry and research are always interesting
Jul 5, 2012
Cancer cells are characterized by uncontrolled proliferation due to genetic and/or epigenetic changes. The wide scope of such changes poses a key challenge to... Read More »
Stanford University researchers Jerome Bonnet, Pakpoom Subsoontorn and Drew Endy have developed a method for repeatedly encoding, storing and erasing digital data... Read More »
Here’s your weekly roundup of exciting medical news.
Paralyzed people control robotic arms directly with brain activity
A new study in Nature... Read More »
Geneticists faced a problem with the recent discovery of a "sixth nucleotide" in DNA. It turns out that two modifications of cytosine, one of the four DNA... Read More »
Researchers have created an ultrasensitive biosensor that could open up new opportunities for early detection of cancer and personalized medicine tailored to the... Read More »
A study led by Indiana University (IU) has identified and prioritized a group of genes that could indicate the level of risk of developing schizophrenia, the brain... Read More »
A new study gives insight into how how stem cells differentiate. New findings show that embryonic stem cells must be fully able to compact the chromatin inside of... Read More »
A new study shows that gene therapy could be the key to treating age- and trauma-related hearing loss. Emory University researchers have shown that introducing a gene ... Read More »
Organisms are adapted to their environment through their individual characteristics, like body size and body weight. Such complex traits are usually controlled by... Read More »
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, is one of the most pressing global health challenges of the past few decades. To date, 25 million... Read More »
A new study by Washington University researchers has discovered that not only can ovarian disease result from exposure to a wide range of environmental... Read More »
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and Rockefeller University have identified the first gene to be linked to a rare condition in which babies are born... Read More »