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Device to Measure Drug Metabolism in the Liver

September 22, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Liver Drug Analysis
Anticancer drugs are metabolized in the liver before they reach the tumor target—thus a need for a means [MORE]

Implantable Biosensor with Wireless Reporting

August 11, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Implantable Biosensor with Wireless Reporting
Here is the claim: “This is the world’s first chip capable of measuring not just pH [MORE]

Fingerprinting Drug Use

July 14, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Fingerprint
This is an interesting piece in itself—mass spec analysis of a fingerprint to detect cocaine intake. But it also suggests [MORE]

Discovery of the First Nutrient Sensor

April 14, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

“SLC38A9”
Between 1961and 1965, biomedical researchers deciphered the genetic code—i.e. how codons of RNA call for the assembly of proteins by [MORE]

Sensor that Monitors Drug Dosage

March 11, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

MEDIC
Anticancer chemotherapy has had some similarities to gunfire range-finding: too much, then too little to find the effective “shot” somewhere [MORE]

Diabetic Fruit Flies

January 14, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Fruit fly on right, genetically altered, has symptoms comparable to type 2 diabetes.
Just about a century ago the “fly [MORE]

Tissue Regeneration through Metabolic Control

January 7, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Since James Till and Ernest McColloch first proved the existence of stem cells in 1961, researchers came to realize [MORE]

Predictive Modeling of Drug Response

October 22, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Pharmacodynamics
Using differential equations for statistical modeling, researchers at Penn State’s College of Medicine believe that careful algorithms can [MORE]

Harvesting Stem Cells, Post Mortem

October 1, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Pasteur Institute
The 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act made whole brain death the definition of death itself in the [MORE]

Pilot in Clinical Genomics: Gene-Drug Interactions

June 11, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York has enrolled (i.e. contributing blood samples) some 25,000 patients in its biorepository, [MORE]

“Breathprints” in Personalized Medicine

June 4, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

It may come to be called “breathomics”—an individual’s stable and specific breathprint.  Swiss researchers, in mass spectroscopy analyses of [MORE]

Map of Human Metabolism

April 16, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Human Metabolism
An international consortium has created a second generation map of the biochemical reactions involved in human metabolism.  Called [MORE]

Mobile Metabolism Monitor

April 2, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Breezing
“Breezing” is the name developers at Arizona State University have given to a device that analyzes CO2 and [MORE]

Interpreting Genomic Sequences

March 19, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

With the latest generation of DNA sequencers, the so-called “$1,000 genome” is a reality, and the breadbox-sized machine that [MORE]