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Gene Therapy for Aging

Telomeres
Whether or not Elizabeth Parrish turns out to be the hero of her own story, only time will tell. She [MORE]

“Person-on-a-Chip”

There’s a fine art in making miniature human organs. Tissue engineers at the University of Toronto have shown how they [MORE]

3-D Printing Supports Kidney Transplant in a Toddler

Kidney Model
News stories about 3-D printing of a functional organ such as a kidney or liver have to be carefully [MORE]

Liquid Crystalline Hydrogel Mimics Tissue

Crystalline Hydrogel
Hydrogels and liquid crystals each have unusual and desirable qualities, but when combined they create a material that mimics [MORE]

Digestive Enzyme Cartridge

Relizorb
For patients suffering from various digestive system cancers, malnourishment from an inability to utilize fats can worsen already serious disease. [MORE]

Serotonin-Releasing Neurons Cultured from Skin Cells

Serotonin Releasing Neurons
It would be useful, indeed, to have serotonin-producing cells in tissue culture to test drugs developed to treat [MORE]

Pulsing Device to Treat Glioblastomas

Optune
Pulsed electric field technology, directed to disrupt cytoskeleton features of tumor cells, particularly glioblastomas, may be a way to treat [MORE]

Finding Small Chromosome Abnormalities with DNA Sequencing

DNA Sequencing
In July 2012, researchers at Stanford University announced that they had sequenced the entire genome of a fetus using [MORE]

New Platform for Cancer Epigenetic Profiling

Epigenetics
Biostatisticians at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Harvard University have collaborated to create a new “co-expression” analysis of cancer, on [MORE]

Freeze Dried Gut Microbes in a “Smart Capsule”

Smart Capsule
Electrical engineers at Purdue University propose that a “smart capsule” (about the size of a gelcap) could deliver a [MORE]

Figuring Out Echolocation

Neuroethology of Bat Echolocation
One of the most astonishing examples of human brain power is that of James Holman (1786-1857), who [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]

Cardiovascular Conditions Among Current Olympic Athletes

Olympic Athletes
What does it say about human health when 7.3% of the world’s elite athletes have underlying cardiovascular conditions? Out [MORE]

Mapping DNA Repair in the Human Genome

DNA Repair
An unfortunate reality of cancer is that means for killing tumor cells (chemotherapy and radiation) can also cause more [MORE]