POSTS TAGGED AS bioscience

“Repairing” RNA

In the most severe forms of Huntington’s disease, a glutamine-coding DNA sequence on chromosome 7, CAG, can be repeated [MORE]

Mayo Begins Large Scale Sequencing

DNA sequencing is a necessary, but not entirely sufficient step, toward personalized medicine.  Providers have to figure out how to [MORE]

3-D Printing for Muscle Tissue

A San Diego company, Organovo, is using a modified form of 3-D printing to create human tissues—so far, heart [MORE]

New Blood Types

How many blood types exist?  There’s the ABO group, and Rhesus +/-; then, Duffy, Kidd, Diego and Lutheran, and [MORE]

Medical Breakthroughs on the Horizon

From a survey of experts, the Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry newsletter identified several coming breakthrough technologies in health [MORE]

Informative Perspective on the Artificial Pancreas

With more than 20 companies-including Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Mayo Clinic, and Insulet-having investigational device exemptions from the FDA, [MORE]

Cloud-Based Remote Monitoring

While every teenager seems to hanker for the latest smart phone, millions of elders just want a simple phone-the [MORE]

Simplifying POC Microfluidic Devices

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a simplified microfluidics prototype that uses a squeezable pouch to propel [MORE]

Smart Nanotherapeutics

In 2009, Swiss entrepreneur Hansjorg Wyss gave Harvard University its single largest monetary gift ever–$125m-to create the Wyss Institute [MORE]

Energy Metabolism and Age-Related Degeneration

Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in many serious diseases from diabetes and deafness at an early age, to multiple [MORE]

Biochemistry of Exercise

Everyone knows that a good diet and exercise promotes health and wellness, but the biochemistry involved remains vague.  Researchers [MORE]

“Photoelectricwetting” Activates MEMS Devices

First, imagine a drop of water on a waxed car hood: the drop beads up.  Then, on an unwaxed [MORE]

Exome Sequencing for Hypertension

With low-cost clinical genomic sequencing coming sooner than most medical experts expected, the question still is how useful will [MORE]

340 Genomes on a Thumb Drive

Victorinox, maker of the Swiss Army Knife, recently introduced the first terabyte USB thumb drive.  It has the capacity [MORE]

Genomes’ “Intangible Variance”

This piece isn’t about the genetic variance of genomes between any two individuals, but rather the as-yet “intangible variance” [MORE]

Steven Burrill’s 2012 Predictions for Biotech

Burrill & Company, the life sciences investment firm in San Francisco, reviews the biomedical landscape from financial and regulatory [MORE]

Electronic Jeans?

Coating layers of nanoparticles over cotton fibers, researchers at Cornell and in France and Italy have created a flexible [MORE]

“Swimming in a Magnetic Current”

This is the kind of story know-nothing politicians like to expose: researchers working with a tiny sailboat in an [MORE]

BGI and CHOP Begin Pediatric Genomics Work

Last fall, the Beijing Genomics Institute and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced their “Joint Genome Center” for discovering [MORE]

ROCK of Ages

A collaborating research group at Georgetown University and the National Institutes of Health has shown that adding Rho kinase [MORE]