Smokers and Drinkers Are Epigenetically Older
A team of researchers lead by scientists from the University of Iowa have discovered that smoking and drinking accelerates the epigenetic changes associated with aging. The...
Biomedicine
Personalized Medicine
Treatment matched to individual biology: genomic profiling, biomarkers and the platforms making patient-specific medicine practical.
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Illumina Announces a Consortium to Create a 750000 SNPs Microarray
Illumina presented his PopArray Consortium at the Individualizing Medicine Conference at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minessota. The initiative aims to collect genomic data from the...
Biomedicine
Future Pills Will Be Electronic
In his recent review published in the journal Trends in Biotechnology, Chistopher Bettinger makes a summary of the current state and future trends of edible...
Bioengineering
Pere Estupinyà: “In Latin America There Is a Growing Interest in Science and Innovation”
I was fortunate to meet Pere Estupinyà in person few years ago. I was always attracted by science outreach, and Pere was and remains a leader...
Basic Research
Contribute Processing Power to Science and Earn CryptoCurrency
Stanford University based distributed computing platform Folding@Home has launched Foldingcoin, a new Cryptocurrency platform to award CPU & GPU contributors for to tabulate and analyse...
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DARPA to Use Humans Instead of Sluggish Mice and Microorganisms for Antibody Production
DARPA announced that it is conducting research into using human immune system to produce antibodies instead of the conventional method of using fungi or bacteria....
Bioengineering
3D Bioprinting Directed by DNA “Stickers”
Scientists from UCSF have developed a new 3D bioprinting technique – DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells (DPAC) – were cells are joint together by DNA strands hanging...
3D bioprinting
Velcro-like Scaffold to Paste Heart Cells
Engineers from the University of Toronto have assembled functional heart tissue with a biocompatible scaffold that allows layers of cells to attach like Velcro. The...
Biomedicine