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A Path to Precision Cardiac Medicine
CRISPR-Cas9 Mode of Action
About 30% of drugs in clinical trials are withdrawn because of safety issues, several of which present [MORE]
Gene Editing’s Newcomers
MiRNA Mechanisms
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has created enormous scientific interest and it may soon antiquate itself as researchers around the world [MORE]
Ingestible X-Ray Pill
Check-Cap Ingestible Imaging Capsule
GE Healthcare and Check-Cap (Isfiya, Israel) are collaborating to create a imaging pill (somewhat similar to Medtronic’s [MORE]
Computer Assisted Design for Nano Drug Delivery
Computer Model UPenn
Cell surfaces “flutter” to thermal fluxuations, according to researchers in this piece. And, that undulation influences how well [MORE]
An App for Post-Transplant Monitoring
Smart Patient Therapy App
“My Therapy App” is a smartphone program for medication adherence from a German company, Smartpatient gmbh (Munich). [MORE]
Nanoparticles and Lasers to Kill Tumor Cells
In a new approach to laser ablation of tumors, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have used nanoparticles (150 nm [MORE]
ADA-SCID Gene Therapy with a Money Back Guarantee
Vector Carrying Copy of a Correct Gene
In the eight years that Tagline has scanned medical news stories, only twice have [MORE]
Data from the World’s Smallest Pacemaker
Micra
Medtronic has released data from the clinical trial of its Micra Transcather Pacing System—i.e. a pacemaker only one-tenth the size [MORE]
A Biochip for Alzheimer’s
Randox Biochip
Randox Laboratories, a medical diagnostics company in Charles Town, WV, has tested its Alzheimer’s biochip, which relies on detecting [MORE]
“Neural Dust” Implant
Neural Dust
Electrical engineers at the University of California-Berkeley have created an implantable sensor, about the size of a grain of [MORE]
Heart Research on Mt. Kilimanjaro
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Because the oxygen deprivation at high altitude mimics that of a heart attack, device maker Royal Philips and the [MORE]
Tetraspanin Proteins to Prevent Antibiotic Resistance
Tetraspanins Spin Web
Tetraspanins are a family of membrane proteins that function in cell adhesion and motility, as well as proliferation. [MORE]
Micro-Stent Implant for Glaucoma
CyPass Micro Stent Implant
Alcon (Ft. Worth, TX; now a division of Novartis) has recently won FDA approval for its “CyPass [MORE]
The Netherlands’ IOT
The Internet of Things
Being able to monitor switch configuration in The Netherlands’ railroad service, locating luggage at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, [MORE]