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Long Term Survival of ESC’s for Parkinsonism

Ole Isacson
For some time it has been suspected that embryonic stem cells, transplanted to the substantia nigra of Parkinson’s [MORE]

Immunologic Profiling

Signature Degrees of Methylation in DNA
Infections elicit immune system responses with several kinds of leukocytes. Variation arises from both the [MORE]

ALS, A Prion Disease?

ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is an incurable motor neuron disease with no known cure.  It afflicts about 140,000 people each year [MORE]

Growing Skin with Blood and Lymph Capillaries

Cross-section Skin
When natural skin is grafted onto, say, a burn site, its full thickness contains blood and lymphatic capillaries, sebaceous [MORE]

Toxin Biosensor for Smart Phones

iColour Analyser
Bundling bacteriophage into a patterned “material,” bioengineers at the University of California at Berkeley fabricated a biosensor that shows [MORE]

AngioVac Removes 2’ Blood Clot

AngioVac
A 62 year old man at the UCLA Medical Center presented a blood clot that stretched 24 inches [MORE]

Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS) for Neck Tumors

Former President Ulysses Grant died in July 1885 from a squamous cell carcinoma at the base of his tongue.  [MORE]

“Adam” and “Eve,” the Analytical Robots

Roboter
A direct quote from this piece is the best hook: “It has been a long and stealthy takeover, but [MORE]

Gene Therapy Trial Success for Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome

Wiskot-Aldrich Syndrome is a rare but fatal x-linked primary immunodeficiency that presents bleeding and blood cancers.  To treat it, [MORE]

Mouse Cloned from a Single Drop of Blood

What’s different about this experiment in somatic cell nuclear transfer is that the transferred nucleus came from a white [MORE]

Nanotrapping Molecules for X-ray Crystallography

X-ray crystallography has been somewhat limited because the defraction process required a single crystal of, say, protein or DNA [MORE]

Prognosis for Cell Therapies

Fecal transplants are not likely to win as much attention as stem cell wonders or reprogrammed immunotherapy cells to [MORE]

Telecounseling for Postpartum Depression

One of telemedicine’s strengths is in supporting patients with psychiatric problems—particularly for medication adherence.  But this piece reports findings [MORE]

“Tissue Fingerprinting” with MRI

“Each body tissue and disease has a unique fingerprint that can be used to quickly diagnose problems” with an [MORE]