POSTS TAGGED AS molecular medicine

“ZIP Coding” the Human Vascular System

Realizing that the vascular system is not a simple set of different sized pipes, researchers at the MD Anderson [MORE]

Stamping Out Lab Chips

Besides the $1,000 genome sequence, wouldn’t it be nice to have a ten cent medical lab-on-a-chip that could diagnose [MORE]

Room Temp Tissue Fixative

The cost of holding tissue in a frozen state is a major barrier to clinical biorepositories building their specimen [MORE]

New Discovery in Cell Death: Necroptosis

Cells become cancerous when they loose their ability to undergo programmed cell death (known as “apoptosis”).  Until recently, apoptosis [MORE]

Molecular Pathways of Temperature and Pain Sensation

Finding that skin cells are able to produce nitric oxide via a newly discovered pathway, researchers at the Scripps [MORE]

Drug-Device Strategy for Parkinson’s

Contrasting to the previous piece, Eli Lilly and Medtronic are collaborating on a new drug and companion device to [MORE]

Aging vs. Immortality

If cancer cells represent a kind of immortality (having lost their inability to die naturally), then it is not [MORE]

Testing Breast Cancer Tests

In 1955, the National Cancer Institute began organizing oncologists into regional study groups to address specific interests that NCI [MORE]

Exploring “Patient Discovery”

The theme of last year’s Medical Automation Conference was “patient discovery”-i.e. the idea that identifying molecular pathways in individuals’ [MORE]

Diagnosing Schizophrenia

A research group at the University of California San Diego has identified a genetic mutation linked to schizophrenia, and [MORE]

Veterinarians Study Epigenetics of Lupus

Lupus is a mysterious disease of unknown etiology, presenting symptoms of several disorders, especially during its early stages. Thus, [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]

Small Science

The breakthroughs in molecular medicine open new vistas for health, but before this translates into healthcare, astute physicians must [MORE]

Illumina’s Distributed Genomics Network

This past summer, life sciences instrument maker Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, CA) announced its founding of a collaboration [MORE]

More Microfluidics for DNA Sequencing

RainDance, Inc.is in a storied location to start a revolution: Lexington, MA.  The company is developing picoliter droplet-based microfluidics [MORE]

MicroRNA Diagnostics

Unlike messenger RNAs that encode protein formation, microRNAs bind to mRNA and assist in assembling proteins. Like degraded proteins, [MORE]

“Smart bomb” Chemotherapy for Cancer

Cancerous tumors are made up of both normal and malignant cells, and at the root of their growth are [MORE]

Blood as a Source of iPSCs

Most of the R&D work on induced pluripotent stem cells has been done with skin tissue, but recently, investigators at [MORE]

Osteoarthritis Biomarkers

In studies of twins at St. Thomas Hospital, London, King’s College researchers identified 163 biomarkers in blood that can indicate [MORE]

Nanoparticles Deliver iRNA’s

Cancer researchers and physicians are awaiting clinical outcome data that Mark Davis and colleagues will present at the June [MORE]