Genes Show Limited Value in Predicting Diseases
The era of personal genomic medicine may have to wait. The genetic analysis of common disease is turning out to be a lot more complex than expected.Category: BiotechnologyYear: 2009Tags: genes, gene,...
View ArticlePatients' own stem cells to be used to patch up holes in bones
Four patients have had holes in their bones patched up using their own stem cells in a pioneering treatment. Category: Health & MedicineYear: 2009Tags: stemcells, bones, healing, hips
View ArticleNew Nanotech Gene Sequencing Technique
Using a magnetic bead to slowly pull a DNA molecule through a solid-sate nanopore looks promising as the basis for a very fast and efficient nanotech DNA sequencing method. If this method is perfected...
View ArticleScience Traces DNA Back to Marine Origins
Score another one for hindsight, aka retroquant. Toronto based Professor Hughes and colleagues have traced thousands of genes across tens of species as far afield as people, poultry and pufferfish....
View ArticleStudy: personalized drugs may lengthen cancer survival
A private company’s “genetic profiles” of individual cancer patients in a study helped create personalized treatments that helped them survive longer, according to researchers. The...
View ArticleStem cells 'able to reverse symptoms of multiple sclerosis'
Scientists have been able to reverse the symptoms of multiple sclerosis using stem cells from patients' own body fat. Category: BiotechnologyYear: 2009Tags: stemcells, ms, multiplesclerosis, fatcells,...
View ArticleStem Cell Research Made Safer with Latest Discovery
The discovery could have a significant impact on the future use of stem cells in regenerative medicineCategory: BiotechnologyYear: 2009Tags: stemcells, pluripotent, research
View ArticleGene Transfer Offers HIV Hope
A new approach protects monkeys from a virus that closely resembles HIV.Category: BiotechnologyYear: 2009Tags: hiv, genetransfer, antibody
View ArticleTiny Implants for Treating Chronic Pain
A tiny injectable implant, smaller than a grain of rice, might one day take the place of large neural stimulators used to treat chronic pain and other neurological disorders. Category:...
View ArticleSending Genes into the Brain
More-invasive therapies show promise for treating Parkinson's.Category: BiotechnologyYear: GeneralTags: genetherapy, parkinsons, brain
View ArticleHealing the Heart with Bone-Marrow Cells
Injecting the hearts of angina sufferers with cells extracted from their own bone marrow can reverse the condition and relieve its symptoms, a new study suggests.Category: BiotechnologyYear:...
View ArticleNever Say Die
Harvard Medical School longevity researcher David Sinclair thinks pharmaceutical science is on the brink of a new generation of supermedicines that will prolong the human life span.Category:...
View ArticleThe Future of Human Evolution
Scientific and speculative articles about the future of human evolution regarding to artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, transhumanism, nanotechnology, space colonization, time travel, life...
View ArticleA pill for longer life?
Rapamycin, a drug commonly used in humans to prevent transplanted organs from being rejected, has been found to extend the lives of mice by up to 14% — even when given to the mice late in...
View ArticleIBM's Blue Gene Models Cat's Entire Brain
Using 144 terabytes of RAM, scientists simulate a cat's cerebral cortex based on 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses Category: TechnologyYear: 2009Tags: ibm, catbrain, simulation, ai, bluegene,...
View ArticleCognitive dysfunction reversed in mouse model of Down syndrome
findings from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital shed light on the neural basis of memory defects in Down syndrome and suggest a new strategy for treating...
View ArticleFake blood 2.0?
Newly created synthetic particles that mimic red blood cells may one day carry drug molecules and/or oxygen through bloodstreams, according to researchers writing in this week's issue of the...
View ArticleThe world's only immortal animal
The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth. Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an...
View ArticleReplacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to successful bone implants: how to grow new bones in the anatomical...
View ArticleProsthetic Fingers That Grab Gracefully
ProDigits can replace any or all fingers on a hand; each replacement digit has a tiny motor and gear box mounted at the base. Movement is controlled by a computer chip in the prosthesis. The...
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