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Detecting Nerve Impulses from Outside the Body, at Room Temperature

Optical Magnetometre
Before this gets too exciting, realize that this piece refers to measuring the sciatic nerve impulse of a frog’s [MORE]

Implantable Brain “Stentrode” for Controlling Prosthetics

Stentrode
Most developments in building brain-machine interfaces involve implantation on the brain surface itself. Australian researchers however have designed a prototype [MORE]

An Automated “Radiologist” Named Avicenna

Avicenna Software
IBM is placing a big bet that computational medicine will be the fulcrum between the digital patient and the [MORE]

Growing Transplantable Vocal Cords

Engineered Vocal Cords
This is barely to the prestage of baby’s first words, but regenerative medicine researchers at the University of [MORE]

Growing Skin into Nerves

Aging Human Brain Cells
So, that’s how it works! Membranes that contain the nucleus of neurons deteriorate from aging and allow [MORE]

J. Craig Venter’s $250 Genome for Consumers

J. Craig Venter
Entering the race to sequence the human genome after the government-sponsored team had a decade head start with [MORE]

Illumina and You as an App

Illumina Gene Sequencing Machines
In what seems like a gigantic opportunity for product liability lawyers, sequencer-maker Illumina plans to launch a [MORE]

Direct to Consumer Liquid Biopsy Test for Multiple Cancers

CancerIntercept Liquid Biopsy
Pathway Genomics (San Diego, CA) is the first company to offer liquid biopsy screening tests for multiple cancers [MORE]

A New and Improved CRISPR

CRISPR Cas9
Those in the know must be saying “CRISPR-Cas9” is “so yesterday.” This remarkable gene editing technology has shot like [MORE]

“Tauopathy” as a Consequence of Repeated Concussions

Tau Protein
Football players who have sustained repeated concussions, soldier suffering from traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer’s patients seem to have [MORE]

DNA Sequencing at Birth: the BabySeq Project

Molecular DNA Model
Since 1970, virtually every baby born in the US has undergone screening with Guthrie tests (a protein analysis [MORE]

Discovering Protein Structures

How many proteins make up the human body? The answer is “predicted,” “thought to be,” “estimated at” (and so on) [MORE]

Microbiome Engineering Against Obesity

 
Human Microbiome
Here’s an interesting thought: genetically engineer strains of bacteria that are not competitive with normal gut microbiota, but uniquely [MORE]

Wireless Brain-Computer Interface

Wireless Brain Interface Transmitter
Three years ago, neuroscientists at Brown University released a video of a quadriplegic woman using a brain-machine [MORE]