Tag Archives: Microarrays
Your pharmacist’s secret weapon: How your DNA can help perfect your medication
Mark Kunzli, left, and Dr. Corey Nislow, demonstrate the genome sequencing equipment at UBC’s pharmaceutical department. (Jimmy Jeong for the globe and mail) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/researchers-seek-to-personalize-medicine-by-unlocking-secrets-in-dna/article28745033/
Personalized Medicine: Genetic Testing for Predicting Opioid Response
Stem-cell therapy offering hope to paralyzed spinal cord injury patients: 4 observations
FACT SHEET: Obama Administration Announces Key Actions to Accelerate Precision Medicine Initiative
Teeth — The Next Frontier Of Stem Cell Development?
Baby Teeth (CBS) http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/12/25/the-next-frontier-of-stem-cell-development-teeth/
Interest in precision medicine grows, but reimbursements slow to follow
Intracellular calcium integrates complex signaling to control stem cell activity
3D printing: The desktop drugstore
Printers that create artificial limbs, cheap drugs and replacement organs could radically change medicine in poorer countries. But can this technology deliver? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120926-desktop-drugstores
Stem cells likely to be safe for use in regenerative medicine, study confirms
Cambridge researchers have found the strongest evidence to date that human pluripotent stem cells – cells that can give rise to all tissues of the body – will develop normally […]
Bengaluru startup ‘prints’ liver tissues
ppeal unearths stem cell donor to help Belfast girl Alara Basturk in leukaemia battle
Battler: Little Alara http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/video-appeal-unearths-stem-cell-donor-to-help-belfast-girl-alara-basturk-in-leukaemia-battle-34312089.html
One (blood stem) cell to rule them all? Perhaps not, say Stanford researchers
UTSW scientists discover a new role for RNA in safeguarding human chromosome number
IMAGE: DR. JOSHUA MENDELL view more CREDIT: UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/usmc-usd122315.php
DODGY STEM CELL TREATMENTS, QUESTIONABLE PRACTICES UNDER INVESTIGATION
Surgery (Picture: Wikimedia Commons/James C. Mutter) http://www.nltimes.nl/2015/12/23/dodgy-stem-cell-treatments-questionable-practices-under-investigation/
Novel UV-mediated mode of DNA repair
Credit: SvitDen / fotolia.com http://phys.org/news/2015-12-uv-mediated-mode-dna.html
Forget Paleo, 5:2 and Atkins! Personalized diets based on YOUR genes ‘will be available within 5 years’
Scientists revealed personalized diets will be available in the next few years. They take person’s genetic data to customize diets and physical activities – so that a person gets the […]
The amateur geneticist who surprised science
Kim Goodsell is unlucky enough to have two very rare diseases. Her doctors blamed coincidence, but was it? She taught herself genetics to find out, and as she tells Ed […]
Should Human Stem Cells Be Used To Make Partly Human Chimeras?
Human stem cells, in this case made from adult skin cells, can give rise to any sort of human cell. Some scientists would like to insert such cells into nonhuman, […]
Implications of Personalized Medicine
From cancer to colds, how providers’ attention to the patient experience is impacting healthcare delivery. http://health-information.advanceweb.com/Features/Articles/Implications-of-Personalized-Medicine.aspx
Top court backs sacking of stem cell scientist Hwang
Norwin students collect for principal’s son, who underwent stem cell transplant
Students at Norwin’s Hillcrest Intermediate School raised more than $2,100 through a series of fundraisers to benefit the family of Andrew O’Neil, the son of Principal Brian O’Neil. Andrew underwent […]
New mathematical models shed light on complex interactions of stem cell function in neural tissue
Revolutionary stem cell surgery has Hiddink fit for Chelsea challenge
Grant-funded biotech startup Pandorum develops India’s first artificial liver tissue using 3D printing
A closer look at cell culture
Introducing a new method for stem cell observation. By Wolfgang Hempell and Dr Joachim Kirschner http://www.scientistlive.com/content/closer-look-cell-culture
Researchers Help Cells Forget Who They Are
Induced pluripotent stem cell colonies generated after researchers at Harvard Stem Cell Institute suppressed the CAF1 gene. (Photo: Sihem Cheloufi) http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2015/12/researchers-help-cells-forget-who-they-are
Genome-editing revolution: My whirlwind year with CRISPR
Illustration By David Parkins http://www.nature.com/news/genome-editing-revolution-my-whirlwind-year-with-crispr-1.19063
Regenerative medicine may eliminate Alzheimer’s, heart disease and cancer, and impact pensions and insurance
Synthetic biology reveals mechanism of gene-overexpression to induce cell reprogramming
Estonian startup scene opens up to Personalized Medicine with Idea Garage
Regrowing the heart: Scars from heart attacks cured with stem cells in pioneering study
Reuters / Gareth Watkins http://rt.com/uk/260145-stem-cells-heart-mice/
What hundreds of biomolecules tell us about our nerve cells
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U.S. science leaders to tackle ethics of gene-editing technology
A DNA double helix is seen in an undated artist’s illustration released by the National Human Genome Research Institute to Reuters on May 15, 2012. REUTERS/National Human Genome Research Institute/Handout […]
Stem-cell clinics spread rapidly
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Breaking through the blood-brain barrier
Study details how key protein protects kidney and heart from injury
Image of kidney cells in culture. The lower right panel shows how the protein renalase co-localizes with its receptor PMCA4b. Credit: Ling Wang http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-05-key-protein-kidney-heart-injury.html#nRlv
New technology may reduce deadly complication of bone marrow transplants
Bone marrow transplants are a common treatment for leukemia. A potentially dangerous side effect called graft-versus-host disease occurs when donor T cells from the transplant attack the body’s tissues, such […]