Seizing on the serendipitous finding of a human embryo carrying a genetic condition known as Marfan syndrome, an all-star team of Stanford scientists led by …
Tag: Applied Biotechnology
The next technological revolution: How America is performing in biotech
In a fascinating Science Progress blog entry, Jonathan Moreno takes a stock of how America is performing in terms of its investment in the life …
Biotech start-up builds artful artificial limbs
Bespoke Innovations has gone out on a limb by building a new business around a bold idea – that prosthetic legs can communicate a message …
Researchers develop a reliable electrical sensor no more invasive than a temporary tattoo
The latest in genuinely cool gadgetry with serious medical potential: thin, pliable circuitry that can be applied directly to the skin. Researchers designed the electronic …
Micro-robots venture where others are too big to fit
You may think medical apps and 3D tissue printing are pretty cool medical technologies, but these nano-robots are some stiff competition. These tiny robots can …
Scientists turn mouse memory on and off with the flick of a switch
Researchers at USC have developed a way to restore or suppress long-term memories by manipulating electrical signals in the brain, a discovery that has serious …
Re-engineering the drug-development process to speed medical advances
In a recent Opinionator blog entry, Stanford's Ben Barres, MD, PhD, gives his perspective on how the conventional approach for drug development can impede the …
Valentine's Day in a dish: heart cells made from skin cells help study, treat disease
In the video above, you're seeing heart cells created from skin cells. Stanford's Ricardo Dolmetsch, PhD, and his colleagues performed the conversion using iPS-cell technology, …
Paramecia PacMan: Researchers create video games using living organisms
Much has been written this week about EteRNA, a video game that allows players to propose new molecular structures for RNA. But EteRNA isn't the …
Mob science: Video game, EteRNA, lets amateurs advance RNA research
I first heard of "crowd sourcing" when I interviewed Stanford biochemist Rhiju Das, PhD, about a new, open-to-all comers online video game called EteRNA. Since …
Nature Methods names optogenetics its "Method of the Year"
Nature Methods has picked optogenetics, a biological-research technology largely pioneered at Stanford, as its designated "method of the year" for 2010. Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, …
Biotechnology hacker space opens in New York
Wired Science reports: A cadre of science entrepreneurs recently opened Genspace, the world's first government-compliant community biotech laboratory. The bedroom-sized facility was two years in …
E. coli bacteria become sudoku masters
Now I've heard it all: E. coli can turn gears, blink, compute and, apparently, solve a sudoku puzzle. Medgadget reports: A team from the University …
The RNA insurrection: Genes' "humble servant" rules from behind the scenes
A once-unimagined class of molecules is playing a bigger part than anybody thought in the running of intracellular life. Most surprising is that these molecules …
Using light to get muscles moving
Did you ever think photosynthetic algae would throw light on the problem of helping paraplegics walk before they run? A new study in Nature Medicine …
Firefly lights path to faster cancer drug research
Firefly luciferase - the protein that makes fireflies light up - could illuminate a path to accelerated cancer-drug research. In a study just published in …