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“Flying Vaccinators”

Why might the world benefit from a healthy mosquito?  Professor Shigeto Yoshida, at Jichi Medical University (Tochigi, Japan) believes [MORE]

Business in Companion Diagnostics

As an indication of things to come, Qiagen (Venlo, The Netherlands) signed an exclusive agreement with Johns Hopkins [MORE]

Biological Differences in Lung Tumor Genomics by Gender and Age

It’s not surprising that in searching for genomic individuality, researchers would find pathway-exhibiting cohorts based on age and gender.  Still, [MORE]

Nano-Enabled DNA Sequencer

The goal of a faster, less expensive sequencing-capable of reading an entire genome for $1,000–comes closer every month.  Physicist [MORE]

Regenerative Medicine Growing in the UK

Late last year, the British government funded several new centers of innovative manufacturing, altogether representing about a $100m investment. Among [MORE]

Self-Administered Chemotherapy

Swiss diagnostic and therapeutic giant, Roche, recently invested more than $181m in Halozyme Therapeutics (San Diego, CA) to develop a [MORE]

Regrowing Sensory Cells in the Inner Ear

Age-hearing loss usually proceeds equally in both ears, but occasionally, greater loss in one happens due to a tumor [MORE]

Alzheimer’s and Down’s Syndrome: The Same Disease?

Researchers found a link-amyloid beta damage-between Down’s Syndrome and Alzheimer’s two decades ago, but now it appears that the [MORE]

Neuronal Regeneration

The axoloti salamander is the model organism the University of Florida’s McKnight Brain Institute is using to investigate neuronal [MORE]

Cell-Cultured Vaccines

The H1N1 pandemic may precipitate a fundamental change in the way influenza vaccines are produced.  Normally, flu virus for [MORE]

Biomarkers for Schizophrenia

Even the tag “behavioral disorders”-meaning psychiatric diseases-is vague.  However, the search is now on to identify protein biomarkers in [MORE]

Services for Next Generation DNA Sequencing

Besides figuring out new ways to run sequencers (e.g. IBM’s new nanopore approach, in the Nov. 3 Tagline), faster sample [MORE]

Biomarker Test for Heart Attack

In acquiring BRAHMS (Hennigsdorf, Germany) last October, Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, MA) took over marketing of BRAHMS’s blood biomarker [MORE]

iPSCs from Somatic Cells without Added Transcription Factors

In the first proof of principle that somatic cells can be turned into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) through [MORE]

Beckman Coulter Creates Genomics Services Company

Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, CA) recently announced that it has combined Agencourt Biosciences and Cogenics to form Beckman Coulter Genomics—a business [MORE]

International Hospital Collaboration

Leading hospitals in the US-e.g. Johns Hopkins, Cleveland Clinic-are pursuing relationships abroad, in some instances actually establishing hospitals overseas, but [MORE]