Personalized medicine – the pros, cons and concerns
“Legally, a physician is negligent when they fail to follow generally accepted practice. [MORE]
“All of Us” Research Program
“The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) All of Us Research Program announced that 250,000 whole genome [MORE]
Urine test for asthma
“Researchers at the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Sweden have developed a non-invasive urine-based test that can identify [MORE]
Improved CRISPR Cas9
Off targeting has always been a problem for the otherwise remarkable CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology. To improve the [MORE]
Verily watch
“From the patient’s perspective, wearables already give their users a sense of data ownership, even at the basic level [MORE]
Geisinger Health
“Precision medicine” based on DNA sequencing is all the buzz in healthcare except among payers who deem molecular profiling [MORE]
Ultrathin Needle Delivers Medication to Brain
Quoting directly: “Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have devised a miniaturized system that can deliver [MORE]
Research Biorepository Kaiser Permanente
This piece should be read with an eye to the previous story about hacking DNA sequencers. The [MORE]
Wistar Rat
Rats do more work in medical research than mice, but mice get all the glamour. (50% more scientific publications [MORE]
L-RNA3D
“With the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel, we have shown that small molecules can be designed to seek out and [MORE]
CRISPR-Cas9 Mode of Action
About 30% of drugs in clinical trials are withdrawn because of safety issues, several of which present [MORE]
Nordson EFD E3 Robot
Precision medicine requires a supply chain of precision components—one of which is precision dispensing robots. This piece [MORE]
3D Integrated Pharmaceuticals
This piece describes a process called “3-D integrated pharmaceuticals” which relies on prefabricated components that can be assembled, [MORE]
J. Craig Venter
Its banner reads: “Aging is the single biggest risk factor for virtually every significant human disease. . .” [MORE]