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Single Cell Sequencing

Bio-Rad Illumina Single-Cell Genome Analysis
Early last month, the collaboration between Illumina (San Diego, CA) and Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, CA) released [MORE]

Continuous Glucose and Lactate Monitoring

OptiScanner 6000
OptiScan Medical (Hayward, CA) has received the EU’s approval for a medical device that measures glucose and lactate levels [MORE]

Lab Grown Cartilage from Stem Cells for Hip Prosthetics

Joint pain, especially from arthritis, seems to be part of the fate of aging. Artificial prosthetics offer some relief, but [MORE]

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance

Double-Stranded RNA
Geneticists who study Thoroughbred horses, looking for inheritance patterns of athleticism, have long noticed something called “the Grand Sire [MORE]

Nanoparticles Delivery Synthetic DNA in Treating Thalassemia in Lab Animals

Thalassemia
Several years ago a gene repair technique called “chimeraplasty” looked promising, though it never reached fruition. The idea was to [MORE]

Glucose Sensing Contact Lens

Glucose Sensing Contact Lens
“Blood, Sweat and Tears” used to be a jazz-rock band, but now this trio refers to detecting [MORE]

Organovo’s 3-D Printed Liver Patches for Transplants

3-D Printed Liver Tissue
Much of the work in liver tissue regeneration has focused on making micro-organelles for drug testing. But [MORE]

Asthma Breathalyzer that Measures Nitric Oxide

Spirometrix Fenom
Spirometrix (Pleasanton, CA) has received the European Union’s CE mark of approval for its “Fenom Pro Point-of-Care Breathalyzer” to [MORE]

FDA Approved First Artificial Cartilage Implant for Arthritis

Cartiva Cartilage Implant
Cartiva, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA) has received FDA approval for an artificial cartilage implant in the metatarsophalangeal joint of [MORE]

Drones for Organ Delivery

Drone
In order to find a “cure” for pulmonary arterial hypertension that afflicted her daughter, a Silver Spring, Maryland entrepreneur started [MORE]

ROCK of Ages

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

Blood Biomarker for Parkinson’s

Alpha-synuclein is a protein in neural tissue of unknown function, except that its mutations or post translation modifications have [MORE]

Schizophrenia’s RNA Expression Pattern

A main aim of genetics in psychiatric epidemiology is to sort out much finer definitions of mental disorders beyond [MORE]

Biomarker for Earlier Detection of Ovarian Cancer

Epidemiologists have long suspected a link between infertility and ovarian cancer, and researchers at Rush University Medical Center may [MORE]