Archive for the ‘biotech/medical’ category: Page 2633
Feb 2, 2016
Opportunities in Cancer Nanotechnology: A Conversation with NCI’s Dr. Piotr Grodzinski
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology
Wonderful article on Nanotechnology and cancer with NCI’s Dr. Piotr Grodzinski. NCI established NCI’s with NCI’s Dr. Piotr Grodzinski. The article was published by declara.
Learn about Opportunities in Cancer Nanotechnology: A Conversation with NCI’s Dr. Piotr Grodzinski. Declara makes it easy to discover, share and organize knowledge. We empower individuals, organizations and countries to develop the knowledge needed to solve big problems.
Feb 2, 2016
Robot drills electrodes into British teen’s brain, cures epilepsy
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, robotics/AI, transportation
A British teenager has become the first child in the UK to be cured of epilepsy by a robot that drilled deep into his brain.
Billy Whitaker, 15, had suffered daily seizures for seven years until the operation two weeks ago, which medical experts are convinced has cured him.
The procedure used a £350,000 ($503,455) robot, practically the same as those used on car factory production lines, to drill electrodes into Whitaker’s brain.
Feb 2, 2016
Mexico may be the next frontier for medical marijuana
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: biotech/medical
Could Mexico become the new Amsterdam for US and Canadian tourists?
Marijuana investors are looking at Mexico as a potentially sizable market.
Feb 2, 2016
2,000 year old ‘computer’ discovered: How tech and shipwrecks are rewriting human history
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, computing
Researchers are only steps away from bioprinting tissues and organs to solve a myriad of injuries and illnesses. TechRepublic has the inside story of the new product accelerating the process.
If you want to understand how close the medical community is to a quantum leap forward in 3D bioprinting, then you need to look at the work that one intern is doing this summer at the University of Louisville.
Feb 2, 2016
World First, Country to Offer Free Hand Transplants
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, education
A cutting edge surgical procedure is set to improve the quality of life of eligible transplant patients, who will receive a state funded hand transplant.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will be the first hospital in the UK to offer hand transplants. The hospital is set to begin performing operation towards the latter end of this year (2016).
Notably, consultant plastic surgeon Professor Simon Kay states that this will be the first nationally funded hand transplant hospital: “There have been lots of hand transplants around the world but this is the first time a national funding organisation has closely examined the issue, come up with the conclusion that it’s worth pursuing and is now going to fund it nationally in one centre,” he stated in an interview with the Telegraph.
Feb 2, 2016
Liquid Biopsy Research Tools, Services and Diagnostics: Global Markets
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, health
NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — This BCC Research report provides an in-depth study of the liquid biopsy diagnostics industry. The global market is analyzed by application, biomarker type, analysis platform, analysis purpose and geographic region. The market sizes are given for the years 2014, 2015 and 2020.
Use this report to: Analyze the market for liquid biopsy diagnostics in depth. Gain information on liquid biopsy technologies, clinical applications, industry structure, important liquid biopsy funding initiatives, global markets, patent status and companies. Learn about some of the top research initiatives that are contributing to liquid biopsy development. Gain information on various liquid biopsy diagnostics markets, including for reproductive health, cancer and transplant diagnostics
Highlights.
Feb 2, 2016
Penn study has implications for developing safe therapies for an array of rare diseases via new gene cut-and-paste methods
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
NGS — news flash; gene editing corrects genetically linked liver disease.
For the first time, researchers have treated an animal model of a genetic disorder using a viral vector to deliver genome-editing components in which the disease- causing mutation has been corrected. Delivery of the vector to newborn mice improved their survival while treatment of adult animals, unexpectedly, made them worse, according to a new study by investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania The team published their findings in Nature Biotechnology.
“Correcting a disease-causing mutation following birth in this animal model brings us one step closer to realizing the potential of personalized medicine,” said senior author James Wilson, MD, PhD, a professor of Medicine and director of the Orphan Disease Center at Penn. “Nevertheless, my 35-year career in gene therapy has taught me how difficult translating mouse studies to successful human treatments can be. From this study, we are now adjusting the gene-editing system in the next phases of our investigation to address the unforeseen complications seen in adult animals.” Wilson is also director of the Penn Gene Therapy Program.
Genome pioneers “Where Are They Now?”
Fifteen years after publication of the human genome’s first draft sequence, what has become of the hundreds of researchers who worked on the project?
