POSTS TAGGED AS medical research

UK Funding Stem Cell Work for Economic Recovery

Imagine the controversy if an American President publicly avowed funding a major stem cell production facility to stimulate economic recovery.  [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]

Chronic Pain: 116m People and Rising

Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education & Research is the title of an Institute [MORE]

Breath Test for Vitamin Deficiency

Researchers at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and a New Hampshire company, Metabolic Solutions, have developed a breath [MORE]

Review of Stem Cell Technology

This piece references an article the excellent science writer Stephen Hall published in Scientific American last March, which gives [MORE]

More Horsepower for Molecular Imaging

Last month, four of the UK’s leading research institutions-the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London, King’s College London, and [MORE]

Smarttots Research Initiative

Anesthetic-induced neurotoxicity can be a serious consequence at any age, but for infants and children the damage could be [MORE]

Human Susceptibility to Staph

It’s a reasonable thought that if a single base mutation in the DNA code for hemoglobin can result in [MORE]

Culturing Brain Tissue

In tissue culturing a medullary preparation, technicians often use a tilt device that manipulates the sample on two axes.  [MORE]

Biophotonic Imaging for Apoptosis

For personalized molecular medicine to become a common practice, science need more information about the molecular phenomena of developmental [MORE]

Sharing Tissue for Research

Here’s an example of two trains heading toward each other on the same track.  A couple of years ago, [MORE]

Rats

The tumor suppressor gene p53 is implicated in most forms of cancer, though the gene itself does not have [MORE]