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Max Planck in Florida

Sometime this year, construction and furnishing of the Max Planck Institute for Neuroscience will be completed in Jupiter, FL—the [MORE]

Volatile Organic Compound Profiling: Breath Test for Cancer

Breath Tests
Gastrointestinal cancer produces volatile organic compounds in its metabolism that differ from normal tissue, according to researchers at [MORE]

Nanoscale Electrical Biosensor

Do cells use the electrical conductance of double stranded DNA to signal activation of repair proteins when needed?  Jacqueline [MORE]

Protein Chip Microarrays

A research team from Stanford and Intel have designed what they hope will become a point-of-care proteomics array.  Like [MORE]

Cord Blood Cells Become iPSCs

SOX2, OCT4, KLF4, and MYC—the so called Yamanaka factors—that can transform somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells.  In [MORE]

Schwann Cell Transplant for Treating Paralysis

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, involving three medical centers in Miami, FL, aims to transplant Schwann cells [MORE]

Microfluidics Chip Mimics Ten Human Organ Systems

Microfluidics
With DARPA funding, MIT bioengineers (in collaboration with others) are creating a microfluidics platform that mimics specific functions of human [MORE]

Moving iPSCs into the Clinic

iPSC Process
With regenerative medicine moving closer to clinical reality, Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, CA) and Cellular Dynamics International (Madison, [MORE]

Stem Cell Disease

“For the first time, we are showing evidence that vascular diseases are actually a kind of stem cell disease,” [MORE]

Magnetic Nanosensor Technology

Mycobacteria, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, are hard to identify because they hide within cells.  Diagnosis requires multiple steps, including [MORE]

“Personalized” Pathogens

Staphylococcus aureus VISA
It has been a decade since hospital-acquired vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) was first isolated from the [MORE]

Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia

In a paper titled “Systematic Identification of Genomic Markers of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer Cells,” a research group from [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]

Stem Cell Approach to Fertility

Using ovaries that were removed from healthy females undergoing sex reassignment, cytologists at Massachusetts General Hospital were able to [MORE]