Personalized Medicine

Treatment matched to individual biology: genomic profiling, biomarkers and the platforms making patient-specific medicine practical.

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A Breath Test Has Potential to Detect Liver Disease

Scientists from the University of Birmingham have discovered that three breath volatiles have excellent capabilities to diagnose liver disease. Methanol, 2-pentanone and limonene levels are...

Biomedicine

First 3D Printed Drug Approved by FDA

Aprecia Pharmaceuticals has announced the FDA approval of the SPRITAM® levetiracetam, a drug to treat epilepsy. The tablets were produced by their proprietary ZipDose® Technology platform....

Biomedicine

High Res 3D Bioprinting Startup Looks for Investors

Poietis has launched a crowdfunding campaign on the WiSEED platform. The company plans to provide on-demand fabrication of human-tissues. 3D bioprints will have applications in research as predictive...

Bioengineering

Ultrafast Photonic PCR Amplifies DNA in 5 Minutes

Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley have developed a new technique to do PCR experiments at ultrafast speed. Plasmonic photothermal heating allows results within...

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Non-Genetic Mechanism Can Cause Cancer

Researchers from the University of Leeds and the University of Texas – MD Anderson Cancer Center involved in ovarian cancer have discovered that protein imbalance can cause cancer....

Biomedicine

A safer micro-RNA Guided Gene Therapy

Researchers from Dankook University in Korea have found a new method of introducing transgenes with therapeutic purposes. The study, published in Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, describes how targeting the passenger strand...

Biomedicine

Big Pharma to Get Apple’s ResearchKit Into Their Clinical Trials.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Purdue Pharma have declared their interest in Apple´s ResearchKit platform to gather medical data from iPhone users. The big pharmaceutical companies see it as an...

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Bacteria in Guts

MIT Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Control Digestive System

Scientists at MIT are reporting success in bioengineering memory switches, circuits and sensors that allow control over gut inhabiting bacteria to give our immune system...

Bioengineering