Human-genome-sequencing pioneer Craig Venter, PhD, and his group have announced the achievement of a significant milestone: They've reconstructed the known genome of a bacterial organism, …
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Crossing the valley of death: bridging the drug-development divide
Newsweek science columnists Sharon Begley and Mary Carmichael have written a cogent and provocative article about the impediments to moving promising early drug research out …
Constructing organs block by block with 'biological Legos'
Getting cells to grow in lab dishes and form three-dimensional shapes instead of flat layers has been a major obstacle in efforts to build artificial …
HealthMap provides global surveillance of health outbreaks
In a special report from the New England Journal of Medicine, a Web-based interactive mapping system called HealthMap is cited as an exemplar of a …
An iPhone app for preventing, diagnosing Lyme disease
Just in time for hiking season, researchers at Yale University have released a new iPhone application that offers tips on how to protect yourself against …
Collaborative web applications for medicine
The Healthcare Blog discussing collaborative web applications for clinicians: Clinical Groupware heralds a shift away from medical applications that are primarily based in local hardware …
Using discarded fat tissue as a garden to grow more
Researchers from Queens University in Ontario, Canada describe a method to recycle liposuction leftovers into a biological scaffold that appears to turn stem cells into fat cells.
Researchers from Queens University in Ontario, Canada describe a method to recycle liposuction leftovers into a biological scaffold that appears to turn stem cells into fat cells.
California hospital to test iPads for reading X-rays, vital signs
Network World reported yesterday that Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Visalia, Calif., is planning to deploy 100 iPads for testing by health-care workers in …
FDA launches medical device transparency site
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently launched a Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Transparency Web site as part of its initiative to …
Natural product found in coconut oil, human milk could help fight acne
Researchers at University of California-San Diego are studying the use of a product found in coconut oil and human milk to treat acne. Lauric acid …
Protecting medical records from prying eyes
A new technique developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University may allow data from health records to be used for medical studies while protecting patients' privacy, …
Dean Kamen's robot arm shakes hands on The Colbert Report
If you haven't seen it yet, earlier this week Dean Kamen (of Segway fame) showed off the Luke Arm he's been working on the last …
Nanoscale probe could improve understanding of how cells communicate, respond to medication
Stanford engineers have developed a nanometer-scale probe that can be implanted in a cell wall without damaging the wall, allowing researchers to monitor cell communication …
A pill that spills the beans
Take two of these pills and they'll call your doctor in the morning. Engineers at the University of Florida have designed a pill that tells …
The addictive properties of Web analytics
Much has been written about the potentially addictive qualities of massively multiplayer online role-playing games such as World of Warcraft and Eve. And a similar …
Pondering the Twitter practices of pharmaceutical companies
In the context of pharmaceutical companies, Steve Woodruff discusses the tradeoffs of a personalized Twitter feed versus a homogenized feed on KevinMD: As more and …