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How to Weigh a Single Cell
Cell Weighing Microscope
“We established that the weight of living cells fluctuates continuously by about one to four percent as they [MORE]
Allen Institute for Brain Research Opens It’s Cell Type Database to Researchers
Human Brain Tissue
The human brain is made up of some 86 billion neurons and sorting them into “types” is akin [MORE]
The Youngest Stem Cells
Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Pluripotent embryonic stem cells are derived from blastocysts of about 100 cells, which means those stem cells [MORE]
Smart Hydrogel
Nitric Oxide Ge
Quoting directly: “At the Institute for Basic Science in Daejeon, South Korea, scientists have developed a hydrogel that [MORE]
Artificial Intelligence for Wellness
Human Microbiome
The interaction of some three billion bacterial genes and twenty thousand human genes in the human microbiome is the [MORE]
Hacking Sequencers with Malware of Synthetic DNA; Scary
Illumina Genome Analyzer II Sequencing Machine
Today’s science-fiction can become tomorrow’s breakthroughs or its nightmares. The piece describes such a bad [MORE]
Kaiser Permanente’s Research Biobank Is Currently Largest (Non-Governmental) in the US
Research Biorepository Kaiser Permanente
This piece should be read with an eye to the previous story about hacking DNA sequencers. The [MORE]
Perspective on DNA Sequencing
DNA 3D Model
Keep in mind that the Human Genome Project completed its “rough draft” only a dozen years ago; since [MORE]
A Genetically Modified Skin Patch that Monitors Glucose Levels
Skin Patch that Monitors Glucose
In laboratory mice, University of Chicago bioengineers were able to use CRISPR gene editing to modify [MORE]
Cell Atlas of the Small Intestine
Small Intestine Cellular Composition
Quoting directly: “The lining or epithelium of the gut is one of the body’s most diverse and [MORE]
Spray-On Heart Muscle
Muscles in a Spray Can
The first artificial heart patented in the US went to Paul Winchell, more commonly remembered from [MORE]
A Self-Propelled Catheter
Robotic Bronchoscope
The conventional means for looking into lung’s airways is a camera-carrying bronchoscope with additional tools for taking a tissue [MORE]
Odors of Disease and Immune Response
Electronic Nose
Alexander Graham Bell had an interesting observation: “If you are ambitious to find a new science, measure a smell.” [MORE]
Reversible RNA Editing
The Broad Institute’s pioneering lab for gene editing has developed a version of CRISPR that permits reversible RNA editing. “The [MORE]