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New Genetic Target for Hypertension

Yale scientists recently announced their findings that a genetic mutation resulting in loss of potassium channel function is implicated [MORE]

Neuron Progenitor Cells Commercially Available

While the debate over human embryonic stem cells remains contentious, Lonza (Walkersville, MD) and California Stem Cell, Inc. (Irvine, [MORE]

Synthetic Macromolecules

“. . . the molecular parts kit for life need not be limited to parts likes genes and proteins [MORE]

Problems in Stem Cell Genetics

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the Scripps Research Institute recently made a disturbing discovery [MORE]

Growing Tumors Rapidly in the Lab

Todd Ridky, MD and a group at Stanford, were able to transform several human epithelial cells into invasive malignancies [MORE]

Upward Trend for Microfluidic Chips

Microfluidics applications are rising in both scientific and clinical medicine and Kevin Hrusovsky, CEO of chip-maker Caliper Life Sciences [MORE]

Illumina’s Distributed Genomics Network

This past summer, life sciences instrument maker Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, CA) announced its founding of a collaboration [MORE]

New Material for Growing Stem Cells

Most labs that grow stem cells rely on traditional plastic Petri dishes that have a gelatin coated surface for [MORE]

Roche and IBM Nanopore Sequencing Genomes for $1000 or Less

Roche is picking up on IBM’s development of nanopore sequencing, which streams DNA through a nanopore of a silicon [MORE]

“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]