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Flexible Pressure Sensor

This piece is short on details, but it notes a new flexible pressure sensor that engineers at the University [MORE]

“Smarter” Test Tubes

With the aim of enhancing laboratory automation, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (St. Ingbert, Germany) [MORE]

Non-Inherited Genetics of Bipolar Disorder

Copy number variations in DNA sequences can arise de novo and result in non-inherited forms of psychiatric illness such [MORE]

Energy Metabolism and Age-Related Degeneration

Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in many serious diseases from diabetes and deafness at an early age, to multiple [MORE]

“Swimming in a Magnetic Current”

This is the kind of story know-nothing politicians like to expose: researchers working with a tiny sailboat in an [MORE]

Regenerating Lung Tissue

Most of the attention in regenerative medicine has gone to stem cell strategies, but investigators at Weill Cornell have [MORE]

“Microvascular Stamp” Bandage

In the mind’s eye, imagine a postage stamp with live cells arrayed upon its surface in a specific pattern.  [MORE]

Gene Therapy for Stem Cells

In a remarkable clinical experiment, researchers at the UK’s Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge have demonstrated a [MORE]

Industrialization of Medicine

Is “evidence-based practice” a fair tradeoff for “clinical judgment?” Does healthcare need to be industrialized and standardized-enabled to run [MORE]

She Donated Her Genome to Science

Known only as “W115,” a 115 year old woman-before her death she was the oldest known living person-had her [MORE]

Optical Fractionation of Blood

Dr.. Sean Hart
During World War II, Edwin Cohn developed the blood fractionation method that separated serum albumin, saving thousands of [MORE]

Implantable Tumor Monitor

Inside an implantable device about the size of a thumbnail, researchers at the Technical University of Munich have placed [MORE]

Metabolgenomics

Metabolic syndrome-that dangerous mix of hypertension, elevated cholesterol and Type 2 diabetes-is both biologically complex and rising in incidence as [MORE]

New Insight into Breast Cancer Biology

 
Researchers at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia have found that breast cancer cells secrete hydrogen peroxide, thereby creating oxidative stress [MORE]