POSTS TAGGED AS molecular medicine

Twenty-Three Years of the Human Genome Project

The Human Genome Project reached “completion” ten years ago, this past April 14th; and to mark that anniversary the [MORE]

Clinical Usefulness of Sequencing, Another Example

When will DNA sequencing become a common option in clinical medicine?  With most healthcare providers that may be a [MORE]

RNA Microsponges as Transporters

Chemical engineers at MIT have developed a new means for delivering therapeutics to targeted cells, calling their creation “RNAi [MORE]

DNA “Origami”

DNA Robot
DNA’s ability to fold tightly probably explains why it survived in the primordial soup that covered the Earth before [MORE]

“Repairing” RNA

In the most severe forms of Huntington’s disease, a glutamine-coding DNA sequence on chromosome 7, CAG, can be repeated [MORE]

Mayo Begins Large Scale Sequencing

Genome Sequencing
DNA sequencing is a necessary, but not entirely sufficient step, toward personalized medicine.  Providers have to figure out how [MORE]

Scalable Automation for Small Labs

This piece, from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, is not a “how-to” guide for small labs, but rather [MORE]

ROCK of Ages

"ROCK"
A collaborating research group at Georgetown University and the National Institutes of Health has shown that adding Rho kinase [MORE]

“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

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