POSTS TAGGED AS medical research

Humanized COVID-19 Mouse

Mouse genome rewriting and tailoring of three important disease loci
“Here we [NYU Grossman School of Medicine] describe ‘mammalian switching antibiotic [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]

Frugal Scientists: Toy Centrifuge and Paper Microscope

PATH’s $1 Folding Paper Microscope Developed at Stanford
There are two pieces in this entry—the first about a homemade centrifuge for [MORE]

Artificial Neuron from Organic Bioelectronics

Cerebellar Neurons
“Scientists [at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm] have managed to build a fully functional neuron by using organic bioelectronics. This artificial [MORE]

21st Century Cures Act

Personalized Medicine
In case you thought you’d never live to see a unanimous vote on anything in Congress, recall HR 6, [MORE]

Using CRISPR/Cas for “Knock In” Cassettes

CRISPR
“Knock out” mice—so called because one of several means has been used to inactivate a murine gene—have been invaluable research [MORE]

Antivibration Devices

Vibration Isolators
This is a commercial advertisement for antivibration devices, included for its information but without any endorsement.  Many of Tagline’s [MORE]

Transcriptome Profiling in a Single Living Cell

Eberwine Nature Methods image
It is assumed that cells behave differently in vivo and in vitro, but a University of Pennsylvania [MORE]

D Space

Library science may not be the most obvious field of medical automation, but surely it is the most advanced [MORE]

Harnessing the Power of Digital Patients

Quintiles, a healthcare consultancy in Research Triangle Park, NC, has a downloadable white paper titled “Harnessing the Power of the [MORE]

Electonic Consent for Biobanking

Biorepository
Collecting blood and other biological samples from patients for a biorepository is the basis for a hospital doing research on [MORE]

Gut-on-a-Chip

Gut-on-a-Chip
The video embedded in this piece shows a very remarkable development from the Wyss Institute at Harvard: a microdevice [MORE]

UK Funding Stem Cell Work for Economic Recovery

Stem Cell Research
Imagine the controversy if an American President publicly avowed funding a major stem cell production facility to stimulate [MORE]

For Toxicity Testing, a Human-Body-on-a-Chip

Over the next five years, the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the [MORE]