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
Here is the claim: “This is the world’s first chip capable of measuring not just pH [MORE]
Fingerprint
This is an interesting piece in itself—mass spec analysis of a fingerprint to detect cocaine intake. But it also suggests [MORE]
“SLC38A9”
Between 1961and 1965, biomedical researchers deciphered the genetic code—i.e. how codons of RNA call for the assembly of proteins by [MORE]
MEDIC
Anticancer chemotherapy has had some similarities to gunfire range-finding: too much, then too little to find the effective “shot” somewhere [MORE]
Fruit fly on right, genetically altered, has symptoms comparable to type 2 diabetes.
Just about a century ago the “fly [MORE]
Since James Till and Ernest McColloch first proved the existence of stem cells in 1961, researchers came to realize [MORE]
Pharmacodynamics
Using differential equations for statistical modeling, researchers at Penn State’s College of Medicine believe that careful algorithms can [MORE]
Pasteur Institute
The 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act made whole brain death the definition of death itself in the [MORE]
Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York has enrolled (i.e. contributing blood samples) some 25,000 patients in its biorepository, [MORE]
It may come to be called “breathomics”—an individual’s stable and specific breathprint. Swiss researchers, in mass spectroscopy analyses of [MORE]
Human Metabolism
An international consortium has created a second generation map of the biochemical reactions involved in human metabolism. Called [MORE]
Breezing
“Breezing” is the name developers at Arizona State University have given to a device that analyzes CO2 and [MORE]
With the latest generation of DNA sequencers, the so-called “$1,000 genome” is a reality, and the breadbox-sized machine that [MORE]