Friday, November 6, 2009

Newborn Babies Cry With Mother's Accent

French and German scientists decided to analyze the crying of newborns from the two countries for differences in intonation. Turns out that German babies have a different "accent" to their cry compared with those from France, which implies that language learning perhaps begins even in the womb.

The analysis of crying conducted under the supervision of the psychologist Kathleen Wermke from the ZWES showed that the newborns tended to produce the intonation pattern most typical for their respective mother tongue. The crying patterns of the German infants mostly began loud and high and followed a falling curve while the French infants more often cried with a rising tone. This early sensitivity to features of intonation may later help the infants learn their mother tongue, the researchers say. "When they begin to form their first sounds, they can build on melodic patterns that are already familiar and, in this way, don't have to start from scratch", says the neuropsychologist. The evolutionary roots of this behaviour are older than the emergence of spoken language, the researchers believe. "The imitation of melodic patterns developed over millions of years and contributes to the mother-child bond" says Friederici.

Press release: Babies with an accent ...

Abstract in Current Biology: Newborns' Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language...

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Data Suggests Amputee Sprinters Not at a Biomechanical Advantage

Interest has risen significantly in studying the biomechanics of amputee athletes since Oscar Pistorius's historic bid to be a part of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Oscar Pistorius is a double below the knee amputee who runs with the aid of Cheetah Flex-Foot prosthetic feet.

In a new study published in Biology Letters, the researchers gathered biomechanical data from unilateral amputees and from able-bodied sprinters. Interestingly, they discovered that the prosthetic leg generated a 9 percent lower ground reactive force, one of the primary determinants of running top speed, than the unaffected leg.

The conclusions from initial data from the time of the controversy stated that amputee runners were at an advantage. However, those opinions are being disproven as new data is painting a clearer picture that, if anything, these runners suffer a disadvantage.

Abstract: Running-specific prostheses limit ground-force during sprinting

More from MIT here...

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Court Refuses to Dismiss Gene Patent Challenge

A federal district court today denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. BRCA1 and BRCA2 are dominant genes that greatly increase the chance of developing breast and ovarian cancer. The only test currently available for these genes is from Myriad Genetics, the patent holder, for $3000.

Around 20 percent of the human genome is currently patented. These patents restrict researchers and health professionals in how they are able to use the patented genes. A researcher is not able to study a patented gene without the patent owner's approval. Similarly, geneticists are barred from testing for patented genes without approval.

The lawsuit was filed by the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation claiming that the patents violate the First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, the Patent Act of 1952 and Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US constitution. The lawsuit was filed against Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah Research Foundation.

Here is an excerpt from the court's opinion:

The Plaintiffs in this action comprise a broad range of parties, including researchers, genetic counselors, medical and/or advocacy organizations, and women facing the threat of breast cancer or who are in the midst of their struggle with the illness. The challenges to the patents-in-suit raise questions of difficult legal dimensions concerning constitutional protections over the information that serves as our genetic identities and the need to adopt policies that promote scientific innovation in biomedical research. The widespread use of gene sequence information as the foundation for biomedical research means that resolution of these issues will have far-reaching implications, not only for gene-based health care and the health of millions of women facing the specter of breast cancer, but also for the future course of biomedical research... The novel circumstances presented by this action against the USPTO, the absence of any remedy provided in the Patent Act, and the important constitutional rights the Plaintiffs seek to vindicate establish subject matter jurisdiction over the Plaintiffs' claim against the USPTO.

Read the opinion here... (.pdf)

ACLU's Page for the Case...

(hat tip: Wired)

(Image: By walknboston on Flickr)

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Monday, November 2, 2009

New Technology for Turn-On Fluorescence Detection of Cyanide in Water

Scientists from Indiana University Bloomington are reporting in J. Am. Chem. Soc. the development of a fluorescent molecular probe that can detect minuscule concentrations of cyanide in water at normal pH levels. This research can conceivably be extended into a commercialization stage to develop a simple and cheap cyanide detector:

"This is the first system that works in water at normal pH levels and can be modified at will to enhance its reactivity," said IU Bloomington chemist Dongwhan Lee, who led the research. "We are now looking at how to make the detector more sensitive."

Graduate student Junyong Jo is the report's first author.

One of the reasons the detector is not ready for market, Lee says, is that its optical properties need to be improved to emit light at longer wavelengths with less interference from background signals, especially those of biological origin. Since pond or river water is likely to contain living organisms and other organic matter, Lee says the detector system must be perfected.

Another unique aspect of the detector molecule is its modular structure.

"This is an essentially three-component chemical device with an activator, a receptor, and a reporter module," Lee said. "These three components we can change at will in the future, either to make the detector more sensitive, or have it detect an entirely different toxin by sending out signals as different colors of light. Because of the structure's modularity, a change in one of the three components doesn't really affect the others."

Lee and Jo were inspired by life itself -- the natural properties of proteins -- when they began designing their sensor molecule. The design of this novel system takes advantage of the structure-organizing "beta turn" motif commonly found in protein structures. The detector is essentially inert, except in the presence of cyanide, with which it preferentially reacts. The addition of cyanide induces a subtle but important structural change in the detector that turns it into a pigment that absorbs ultraviolet light (currently 270 nm) and convert it to light emission at around 375 nm, a purplish color at the very edge of human beings' normal vision range.

Cyanide is a negatively charged ion composed of one carbon and one nitrogen atom. Among its many chemical targets inside cells is the oxidative phosphorylation system, which is a crucial producer of energy. Cyanide disrupts the system, making it impossible for cells to maintain even the most basic processes, which is one reason cyanide is considered a poison.

Abstract in in J. Am. Chem. Soc.: Turn-On Fluorescence Detection of Cyanide in Water: Activation of Latent Fluorophores through Remote Hydrogen Bonds That Mimic Peptide β-Turn Motif

Full story: Designer molecule detects tiny amounts of cyanide, then glows...

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Friday, October 23, 2009

2010 NIST Mobile Microrobotics Challenge Invites Contestants

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is again inviting participants to next year's nanosoccer competition. Designed to showcase micromechanical technologies that might become useful for medical and biological applications, such as microsurgery or fabrication of diagnostic MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), the contest pits external magnetically powered microbots against each other to test directly which are more skilled for various tasks.

Viewed under a microscope, the microbots are operated by remote control and move in response to changing magnetic fields or electrical signals transmitted across a microchip playing field. The bots are a few tens of micrometers to a few hundred micrometers long, but their masses can be just a few nanograms (billionths of a gram). They are manufactured from materials such as aluminum, nickel, gold, silicon and chromium.

Like the NIST-coordinated "nanosoccer" events at the 2007 and 2009 RoboCup competitions (see www.nist.gov/public_affairs/calmed/nanosoccer.html), the Mobile Microrobotics Challenge will pit tiny robotic contestants against each other in three tests: (1) a two-millimeter dash in which microrobots sprint across a distance equal to the diameter of a pin head; (2) a microassembly task where the competitors must insert pegs into designated holes; and (3) a freestyle competition where each team chooses a task for its robot that emphasizes one or more abilities from among system reliability, level of autonomy, power management and task complexity.

These events are designed to "road test" agility, maneuverability, response to computer control and the ability to move objects—all skills that future industrial microbots will need for tasks such as microsurgery within the human body or the manufacture of tiny components for microscopic electronic devices.

NIST is organizing the 2010 Mobile Microrobotics Challenge with the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. NIST's goal in coordinating competitions between the world's smallest robots is to show the feasibility and accessibility of technologies for fabricating MEMS, which are tiny mechanical devices built onto semiconductor chips. The contests also drive innovation in this new field of robotics by inspiring young scientists and engineers to become involved.

Press release: Is Your Microrobot Up for the (NIST) Challenge?

Link: Mobile Microelectronics Competition...

Flashbacks: Video of a Nanosoccer Nanobot; Public Invited to See Nanosoccer 2008 US RoboCup Open; The Official Website of Nanobot Nanosoccer

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Role of Sound in Everyday Life

Julian Treasure, a corporate consultant on sound environments, gave a TED talk explaining how we are influenced by audio. Turns out that sound can have a substantial impact on our well being, mood, and productivity, and we should be aware of these factors in order to create a more pleasing world around us.

Link @ TED...

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High Performance Biomimetic Muscles from Spider Silk?

Researchers from the University of Akron discovered that spider silk will stretch and contract due to changes in environmental humidity, and will do so with a substantial amount of force. They believe that utilizing this property may allow for building of artificial muscles using a material that already has impressive strength and durability.

Michael Berger at Nanowerk explains:

The calculations by [Ali] Dhinojwala's and [Todd] Blackledge's team showed that silk generates work 50 times greater than the equivalent mass of human muscle. The researchers point out that these numbers are also much better than most of the synthetic materials developed so far.

The researchers hypothesize that water molecules cause a general swelling of the silk and their removal during drying results in contraction.

"This is strikingly similar to the mechanism proposed to explain how plant tissues can act as motors - actively expelling seeds from the parent plant and even burying seeds in the ground," explains Dhinojwala. "For instance, differential expansion and contraction on opposite sides of the cellulose awns of wheat seeds causes them to bend under daily fluctuations of humidity thereby burying the seeds in the ground. Thus, cyclic contraction of spider silk may result from a relatively general response of biological tissues to humidity."

Read on at Nanowerk...

Abstract in Journal of Experimental Biology: Spider silk as a novel high performance biomimetic muscle driven by humidity

Image credit: Tice Lerner...

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Modeling Trillions of Brain Synapses to Learn More About Ourselves

Henry Markram, director of Blue Brain, a project to simulate the brain's electrical activity on an IBM supercomputer, gave a TED talk about what his team is working on and what they expect to learn.

Link: Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer...

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Gold Nanoparticles Detect Prostate Cancer Activity

Northwestern University scientists have developed a new super sensitive test that can detect prostate-specific antigens (PSA) at levels 300 times more dilute than currently possible. If this nanoparticle based technology gets to the market, it may revolutionize early detection and treatment of prostate cancer.

This pilot study looked at serum samples from 18 post-prostatectomy patients collected over the course of a number of years.

The researchers were able to reliably and accurately quantify PSA values at less than 0.1 nanograms per milliliter, the clinical limit of detection for commercial assays. The lower limit of detection for PSA using the bio-barcode assay is approximately 300 times lower than the lower limit of detection for commercial tests. The PSA measurements were used to classify the patients as either having no evidence of disease or having a relapse of disease.

The Northwestern team is now conducting a similar retrospective study of 260 patients and eventually plans to do a large prospective study.

The ultra-sensitive technology is based on gold nanoparticle probes, decorated with DNA and antibodies that can recognize and bind to PSA when present at extremely low levels in a blood sample. A magnetic microparticle, outfitted with a second antibody for PSA, also is used in the assay. When in solution, the antibody-functionalized particles "recognize" and bind to PSA, sandwiching the protein between the two particles.

The key is that attached to each tiny gold nanoparticle (just 30 nanometers in diameter) are hundreds of identical strands of DNA. Mirkin [Chad A. Mirkin, professor of chemistry, professor of medicine and professor of materials science and engineering] calls this "bar-code DNA" because they have designed it as a label specific to the PSA target. After the "particle-protein-particle" sandwich is removed magnetically from solution, the DNA is removed from the sandwich and read using a Verigene® ID system, a nanotechnology platform designed to detect and quantify DNA.

The amount of PSA present is calculated based on the amount of bar-code DNA. For each molecule of captured PSA, hundreds of DNA strands are released, which is one of the ways the PSA signal is amplified.

More from Northwestern: Detecting the Undetectable in Prostate Cancer Testing...

Abstract in PNAS: Nanoparticle-based bio-barcode assay redefines "undetectable" PSA and biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy

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Monday, October 19, 2009

Investigators Reveal Folding Principles of the Human Genome

Scientists have long been speculating on how DNA gets packaged inside chromosomes while remaining readable and easily accessible. In a paper just published in Science, researchers from Harvard and MIT have discovered that sections of the DNA bunch together into "fractal globule, a knot-free, polymer conformation that enables maximally dense packing while preserving the ability to easily fold and unfold any genomic locus." The image on the side shows the "equilibrium globule" configuration that was thought to be the structure (left) and the actual configuration (right) that was identified by the team.

Key to deciphering the genome's structure was the development of the new Hi-C technique, which permits genome-wide analysis of the proximity of individual genes. The scientists first used formaldehyde to link together DNA strands that are nearby in the cell's nucleus. They then determined the identity of the neighboring segments by shredding the DNA into many tiny pieces, attaching the linked DNA into small loops, and performing massively parallel DNA sequencing.

Lieberman-Aiden observed that the data suggest a fractal globule. He then teamed up with Mirny and Mirny's student Maxim Imakaev to confirm his hypothesis and demonstrate conclusively that the Hi-C data matched fractal globule behavior. Computer simulations further helped to reveal biologically important features of such a DNA architecture.

In future experiments, the researchers hope to follow the development of stem cells into mature cell types such as kidney cells, says Lieberman-Aiden. "We want to understand how that process takes place, because it clearly involves some 3-D remodeling of the nucleus."

Press release: A new dimension for genome studies...

Abstract in Science: Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome

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Friday, October 9, 2009

J. Craig Venter vs DTC Genetics: 23andMe and Navigenics Get Scrutinized

J. Craig Venter and colleagues have launched a full frontal assault on direct-to-consumer genetic firms, by publishing an opinion piece in Nature that calls into question the value of DTC genetic tests. By conducting a small experiment that compared tests from two competing companies (23andMe of Mountain View, CA, and Navigenics of Foster City, CA), the team showed the presence of some serious inconsistencies between the results. Moreover, Venter's group questions how much practical and actionable information one could gain from these tests, and suggests stronger, more effective reporting standards for this newly emerging direct-to-consumer technology.

Opinion in Nature: An agenda for personalized medicine...

Editorial in Nature: Putting DNA to the test

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Gene Therapy Shows Promise for Heart Failure

Researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota successfully used gene transfer therapy to improve the function of cardiomyopathic hearts. The belief is that this kind of "closed heart surgery" may one day prove effective as a clinical therapy.

To make this advance, Herron [Todd J. Herron, Ph.D., research assistant professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Michigan --ed.] and colleagues treated heart muscle cells from the failing hearts of rabbits and humans with a virus (adenovirus) modified to carry a gene which produces a protein that enables heart cells to contract normally (fast molecular motor) or a gene that becomes active in failing hearts, which is believed to be part of the body's way of coping with its perilous situation (slow molecular motor). Heart cells treated with the gene to express the fast molecular motor contracted better, while those treated with the gene to express the slow molecular motor were unaffected.

"Helping hearts heal themselves, rather than prescribing yet another drug to sustain a failing organ, would be a major advance for doctors and patients alike," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., editor-in-chief of the FASEB Journal. "Equally important, it shows that gene therapy remains one of the most promising approaches to treating the world's most common and deadliest diseases."

Current clinical agents and treatments focus on the amount of calcium available for contraction, which can provide short-term cardiac benefits, but are associated with an increased mortality in the long-term. Results from this study show that calcium-independent treatments could have implications for heart diseases associated with depressed heart function, due to the effectiveness of fast molecular motor gene transfer on the improved contractions of human heart muscle cells.

Abstract in FASEB Journal: Ca²⁺-independent positive molecular inotropy for failing rabbit and human cardiac muscle by {alpha}-myosin motor gene transfer

University of Michigan: Scientists jump-start heart cells by gene transfer...

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Project to Test RFID Interaction With Medical Devices

There's a great deal of speculation about the effect RFID (radio frequency identification) technology has on medical equipment. So the researchers from Georgia Tech, backed by an industry trade group, have setup shop to find out what consequences RFID might have on medgadgets. From implantable devices like pacemakers and deep brain stimulators to clinical equipment like infusion pumps and pulse oxymeters, the goal is to setup a set of protocols to evaluate just about any medical gadget-RFID interaction imaginable.

The test protocol development is being overseen by AIM Global, the international trade association representing automatic identification and mobility technology solution providers, and also includes MET Laboratories, a company that provides testing and certification services for medical devices.

The researchers will test whether radio frequency-emitting devices cause any negative effects on the medical devices, and under what conditions these effects might occur. Testing will also determine whether specific medical devices are particularly susceptible to certain radio frequency identification characteristics and if any corrective actions can be taken to mitigate such susceptibility.

Medical device testing is not new for GTRI, which established its Medical Device Test Center more than 14 years ago. The facility was created to enable manufacturers of implantable cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators to work with providers of electronic article surveillance (EAS) systems, used by retailers, libraries and other establishments to prevent theft and track inventory. The center’s original mission was to help manufacturers improve compatibility between implantable medical devices and EAS systems that radiate electromagnetic energy. In 2006, GTRI expanded its operations and facilities to test new types of security and logistical systems (SLS), including RFID.

To test the effects of RFID systems on medical devices, the researchers simulate real-world conditions by placing a medical device in a tank of saline solution that simulates the electrical characteristics of body tissue and fluid. The medical device is then exposed to different RFID technologies. Several tests are performed with the device placed in different orientations to represent how people typically interact with the emissions.

“We think the testing procedure for RFID systems will be similar to the EAS system procedure, but there are a few more challenges with the RFID systems because a person doesn’t always pass through a portal,” noted Bennett, who is also a member of AIM Global’s RFID Experts Group. “Medical devices can be affected by active tags with stronger signals or RFID systems reading passive tag signals.”

The test protocols developed by GTRI will be submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for concurrence, after which a worldwide certification program will be launched and other testing facilities will be invited to participate.

Press release: New Protocols Will Test Effects of RFID Systems on Medical Devices...

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Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see

As though to follow up on our post from yesterday about how we perceive color, TED has released a new video of Beau Lotto demonstrating what visual illusions say about how our brains function.

Link @ TED: Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see...

Flashback: Study Shows That It Is Our Brains, Not Eyes, That See Color

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Study Shows That It Is Our Brains, Not Eyes, That See Color

Even though we intuitively think that a particular color looks the same to different people, researchers from The University of Chicago and Vanderbilt University have uncovered that the brain plays a critical role in color perception. The brain actually assigns colors to objects and with a bit of tinkering one can fool the brain to assign the wrong color to an object being viewed.

“An aspect of human vision that we normally don’t appreciate is that different features of an object, including color and shape, can be represented in different parts of the brain,” said Shevell, the Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Science.

If a person sees a basketball coming, it is perceived as having a particular color, shape and velocity. “The knitting together, or what can be called ‘neural gluing,’ of all those different features so we see a unified object is a complex function done by the brain. Our research focused on how the brain does that,” Shevell explained.

To study how the brain represents the color of objects, the researchers used a technique called binocular rivalry. The technique presents a different image to each eye and thus pits signals from the right eye against signals from the left.

“The brain has difficulty integrating the two eyes’ incompatible signals. When the signals from the two eyes are different enough, the brain resolves the conflicting information by suppressing the information from one of the eyes,” Shevell said. “We exploited this feature of the brain with a method that caused the shape from one eye to be suppressed but not its color.”

The researchers first showed subjects vertically oriented green stripes in the left eye and a horizontally oriented set of red stripes in the right eye. “The brain cannot fuse them in a way that makes sense. So the brain sees only horizontal or vertical,” Shevell said. For their study, the researchers developed a new form of the technique that allowed the horizontal pattern to be suppressed without eliminating its red color, which continued on to the brain.

At this point, the brain has a musical chairs problem. Both the red and green colors reach consciousness but with only the one vertical pattern--one object but two colors. The surprising result was that the “disembodied red, which originated from the unseen horizontal pattern in one eye, glued itself to parts of the consciously seen vertical pattern from the other eye. That proves the idea of neural binding or neural gluing, where the color is connected to the object in an active neural process,” Shevell said.

Press release: Study shows that color plays musical chairs in the brain...

Abstract in Psychological Science: Color-Binding Errors During Rivalrous Suppression of Form

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 was awarded today by the Nobel Foundation to three scientists "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome."

From a statement by the Nobel Foundation:

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level. All three have used a method called X-ray crystallography to map the position for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome.

Inside every cell in all organisms, there are DNA molecules. They contain the blueprints for how a human being, a plant or a bacterium, looks and functions. But the DNA molecule is passive. If there was nothing else, there would be no life.

The blueprints become transformed into living matter through the work of ribosomes. Based upon the information in DNA, ribosomes make proteins: oxygen-transporting haemoglobin, antibodies of the immune system, hormones such as insulin, the collagen of the skin, or enzymes that break down sugar. There are tens of thousands of proteins in the body and they all have different forms and functions. They build and control life at the chemical level.

An understanding of the ribosome's innermost workings is important for a scientific understanding of life. This knowledge can be put to a practical and immediate use; many of today's antibiotics cure various diseases by blocking the function of bacterial ribosomes. Without functional ribosomes, bacteria cannot survive. This is why ribosomes are such an important target for new antibiotics.

This year's three Laureates have all generated 3D models that show how different antibiotics bind to the ribosome. These models are now used by scientists in order to develop new antibiotics, directly assisting the saving of lives and decreasing humanity's suffering.

Link: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009...

Scientific Background on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE RIBOSOME (pdf)...

Press release: The ribosome translates the DNA code into life...

Image: The peptidyl-transferase center in the 50S ribosomal subunit is attacked by a large number of existing antibiotics, now revealed at high resolution in 50S subunit crystal structures. (Nobel Foundation)

P.S. On Friday we will be announcing the winners of our 2009 Guess-A-Nobel Contest...

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

The Nobel Foundation today announced the winners of the Physics Prize 2009. Charles K. Kao is awarded one half of the prize "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication" and Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith are sharing the second half "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor" (Charge-Coupled Device). Beside being the central imaging unit in every digital consumer camera, CCD's are central to modern endoscopes, colonoscopes, ingestable video capsules, mentioned earlier today, and in a great deal of other imaging applications in medicine. Then, of course, every modern hospital is full of fiber optic cables linking it to the rest of the world.

In 1966, Charles K. Kao made a discovery that led to a breakthrough in fiber optics. He carefully calculated how to transmit light over long distances via optical glass fibers. With a fiber of purest glass it would be possible to transmit light signals over 100 kilometers, compared to only 20 meters for the fibers available in the 1960s. Kao's enthusiasm inspired other researchers to share his vision of the future potential of fiber optics. The first ultrapure fiber was successfully fabricated just four years later, in 1970.

A large share of the traffic is made up of digital images, which constitute the second part of the award. In 1969 Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith invented the first successful imaging technology using a digital sensor, a CCD (Charge-Coupled Device). The CCD technology makes use of the photoelectric effect, as theorized by Albert Einstein and for which he was awarded the 1921 year's Nobel Prize. By this effect, light is transformed into electric signals. The challenge when designing an image sensor was to gather and read out the signals in a large number of image points, pixels, in a short time.

Link: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009...

Press release: The masters of light...

Image credits: yuankuei, machernucha

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New Textbook Covers Medical Device Development

A book written by Stanford Biodesign Program faculty members has just been published by Cambridge University Press. Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies provides an overview of the lifecycle of medical device development from the initial idea stage to actual market realization. The tome is recommended by such big industry characters as John Abele, Founder Chairman, Boston Scientific, William Hawkins, Chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and Dean Kamen, Inventor and Founder/President of DEKA Research and Development.

Recognize market opportunities, master the design process, and develop business acumen with this 'how-to' guide to medical technology innovation. A three-step, proven approach to the biodesign innovation process - identify, invent, implement - provides a practical formula for innovation. The experiences of hundreds of innovators and companies, in the form of case studies, quotes and practical advice, offer a realistic, action-orientated roadmap for successful biodesign innovation. Real-world examples, end-of-chapter projects, and Getting Started sections guide the reader through each of the key stages of the process and provide a template to create their own new medical devices. Addressing common medical, engineering, and business challenges to develop well-rounded expertise, this book is the complete package for any biodesign entrepreneur. The text is supported by valuable resources, including up-to-date industry changes: found at ebiodesign.org.

Product page: Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies

The introductory chapter of the book is available here...

Accompanying site: ebiodesign.org

Stanford press release: New textbook offers primer in medical innovation...

Product page on Amazon.com...

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Monday, October 5, 2009

Ig Nobel Prizes 2009 Announced

Another year of Nobel prizes invariably brings forth the Ig Nobels that try to overshadow the historic awards. Human health seems to be a big topic this year in a contest that highlights true but "improbable research". We would like to congratulate all the winners and hope more research into the ignored, irrelevant, or obvious continues with much haste and motivation.

MEDICINE PRIZE: Donald L. Unger, of Thousand Oaks, California, USA, for investigating a possible cause of arthritis of the fingers, by diligently cracking the knuckles of his left hand - but never cracking the knuckles of his right hand - every day for more than sixty (60) years. REFERENCE: "Does Knuckle Cracking Lead to Arthritis of the Fingers?", Donald L. Unger, Arthritis and Rheumatism, vol. 41, no. 5, 1998, pp. 949-50.

CHEMISTRY PRIZE: Javier Morales, Miguel Apátiga, and Victor M. Castaño of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, for creating diamonds from liquid - specifically from tequila.
REFERENCE: "Growth of Diamond Films from Tequila," Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M. Castano, 2008, arXiv:0806.1485.

PHYSICS PRIZE: Katherine K. Whitcome of the University of Cincinnati, USA, Daniel E. Lieberman of Harvard University, USA, and Liza J. Shapiro of the University of Texas, USA, for analytically determining why pregnant women don't tip over.
REFERENCE: "Fetal Load and the Evolution of Lumbar Lordosis in Bipedal Hominins," Katherine K. Whitcome, Liza J. Shapiro & Daniel E. Lieberman, Nature, vol. 450, 1075-1078 (December 13, 2007). DOI:10.1038/nature06342.

PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, Illinois, USA, for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander.
REFERENCE: U.S. patent # 7255627, granted August 14, 2007 for a "Garment Device Convertible to One or More Facemasks."

BIOLOGY PRIZE: Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu, and Zhang Guanglei of Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Sagamihara, Japan, for demonstrating that kitchen refuse can be reduced more than 90% in mass by using bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas.
REFERENCE: "Microbial Treatment of Kitchen Refuse With Enzyme-Producing Thermophilic Bacteria From Giant Panda Feces," Fumiaki Taguchia, Song Guofua, and Zhang Guanglei, Seibutsu-kogaku Kaishi, vol. 79, no 12, 2001, pp. 463-9. [and abstracted in Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, vol. 92, no. 6, 2001, p. 602.]
REFERENCE: "Microbial Treatment of Food-Production Waste with Thermopile Enzyme-Producing Bacterial Flora from a Giant Panda" [in Japanese], Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu, Yasunori Sugai, Hiroyasu Kudo and Akira Koikeda, Journal of the Japan Society of Waste Management Experts, vol. 14, no. 2, 2003, pp. , 76-82.

VETERINARY MEDICINE PRIZE: Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless.
REFERENCE: "Exploring Stock Managers' Perceptions of the Human-Animal Relationship on Dairy Farms and an Association with Milk Production," Catherine Bertenshaw [Douglas] and Peter Rowlinson, Anthrozoos, vol. 22, no. 1, March 2009, pp. 59-69. DOI: 10.2752/175303708X390473.

The 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Winners...

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» Collection of Anatomically Correct Hearts for Direct Study and Analysis (October 5, 2009)

» Conference Brings Together Leaders in Body Computing (October 5, 2009)

» Mathematics Used to Improve Wound Healing Methodologies (September 30, 2009)

» $5 Egg Beater Separates Plasma from Whole Blood (September 29, 2009)

» Quantum Probability Theory May Explain Failures of Human Logic (September 25, 2009)

» Nanowarrior David Gidalevitz is Fighting Antibiotic Resistance (September 24, 2009)

» Prime Time With The DEKA Arm Prosthesis (September 21, 2009)

» Drugs and Spinal Neurostimulation May Help Paraplegic Walk Again (September 21, 2009)

» Stem Cell Powered Textiles May Assist Tissue Regrowth (September 21, 2009)

» Now Oliver Sacks Talks About Visual Hallucinations in Blind People (September 21, 2009)

» Controllable Membrane May Regulate Drug Delivery (September 18, 2009)

» Genetic Expression Technique Based on Light Switching Proteins Helps Uncover Function of Individual Neurons (September 18, 2009)

» Physical Evidence Shows Sleeps Role in Memory Formation (September 18, 2009)

» Implanted Tooth Restores Vision to Patient With Scarred Corneas (September 17, 2009)

» Gene Therapy Gives Color Vision to Color Blind Monkeys (September 17, 2009)

» Nanostructure Coating Improves Performance of Eye Glasses (September 16, 2009)

» Lasers Used to Guide Growth of Mammalian Cells (September 16, 2009)

» Laser Manufacturing to Improve Implanted Medical Devices (September 16, 2009)

» Light Switches to Help Restore Muscle Movement in Paralyzed (September 15, 2009)

» Delivering The Promise of siRNA (September 15, 2009)

» Michael Yon Reports on Air Ambulance Work in Rugged Afghanistan (September 15, 2009)

» 2009 Tech Awards Honor Technology That Helps World's Poor (September 15, 2009)

» Computers Shown to Read Lips Better Than (Some) Humans (September 15, 2009)

» Neuroeconomics: A New Scientific Field With Strange Social Implications (September 14, 2009)

» Astrocytes Shown to be Active Players in Brain's Intelligence (September 14, 2009)

» Amateur Cryptobiologists Invited to Take On Cipher Challenge (September 10, 2009)

» For One Reason or Another, Researchers Assemble 3D DNA Structures (September 9, 2009)

» Individualized Artificial Voice for Laryngectomy Patients (September 9, 2009)

» Overcoming Fragility of Antibodies by Stabilizing Amino Acid Bonds (September 9, 2009)

» Cheap Improv Dummy for CPR Practice (September 9, 2009)

» American Society for Nanomedicine to Hold First Ever Conference (September 4, 2009)

» One On One With Nobel Laureates (September 4, 2009)

» New Material That Spurs Growth of Neural Tissue Might Help Recover Brain Post Injury (September 4, 2009)

» Microchip Detector Watches for Microorganisms in Free Air (September 4, 2009)

» MassDevice Talks to ConforMIS Founder, CEO (September 1, 2009)

» Carbon Nanotubes May Yet Be Effective Therapy for Neural Disorders (August 31, 2009)

» 3D Molecular Structure Observed Using AFM (August 28, 2009)

» Wireless Electricity May, Among Other Things, Revolutionize Implanted Medical Device World (August 28, 2009)

» Medgadget Design for a Remote, Poorer World (August 27, 2009)

» Can a Digital Projected Heart Replace a Much Beloved Solid One? (August 27, 2009)

» Scientists Film Ribosomes Building Proteins (August 25, 2009)

» Japanese Robotic System Shows Off Impressively Fast Movement and Dexterity (August 25, 2009)

» New Dressings Material to Keep Wounds Bacteria Free While Promoting Rapid Healing (August 25, 2009)

» Light Used to Control Protein Behavior Inside Living Cells (August 21, 2009)

» IBM's DNA Origami May Lead to New Computer Chip Design (August 21, 2009)

» Gene Therapy and Adapting Brain Help Improve Vision in Congennital Blindness (August 19, 2009)

» Sandcastle Worms Help Create New Bone Adhesive (August 19, 2009)

» A Litmus Test For Source of Sweetness (August 19, 2009)

» Polymer-Protein Compound Offers New Approach to Biosensors (August 14, 2009)

» Secrets of Magnetotactic Bacteria Unveiled (August 13, 2009)

» An Organ Replaced: Fully Functional Bioengineered Tooth Debuts (August 13, 2009)

» New Light-Emitting Biomaterial for Low Oxygen Conditions, Cancer Imaging (August 13, 2009)

» Update on Wii's Pulse Oximetry Monitor (August 11, 2009)

» Armies of Amoeba May Power Biological Computers (August 10, 2009)

» Molecular Cracks Point to Source of Brittle Bone Disease (August 10, 2009)

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» Dean Kamen Offers Thoughts On Healthcare Debate (August 10, 2009)

» Nanoscale Origami from DNA Sequences (August 10, 2009)

» Drive-Thru ER Concept Studied For High Volume Situations (August 6, 2009)

» Revealed: The Assembly of HIV (August 5, 2009)

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» Bacterial Prison! Scientists Devise Solitary Confinement for Bugs (August 4, 2009)

» Microsystem Helps Study Mechanics of Chemical Gradients (August 4, 2009)

» Microchip System Can Perform Hundreds of Parallel Chemical Reactions (August 4, 2009)

» Music Powers Functional Microfluidic Devices (August 3, 2009)

» New Study Indentifies Brain Tumours Susceptible to Avastin (August 3, 2009)

» Blue Dye Helps Repair Spinal Cord Damage, Turns Rats Into Cute Animals (July 30, 2009)

» New Computer Program Matches Proteins With Potential Binding Compounds (July 30, 2009)

» Theorizing on The Physics of The Mind (July 30, 2009)

» Artificial Cell Structure as a New Model to Study Lung Diseases (July 30, 2009)

» Does Brain Process Time in a Manner Similar to Einstein's Special Relativity? (July 28, 2009)

» CNN Reports on DARPA Med Tech Research (July 28, 2009)

» Protein Therapy Helps Improve Ailing Heart Function (July 28, 2009)

» FDA Issues Press Release Warning On Dangers of E-Cigarettes... It's On! (July 24, 2009)

» Oramed's Oral Insulin Moving Through Clinical Trials (July 24, 2009)

» Nano Scale Mass Spectrometer Developed (July 24, 2009)

» New Compound to Clean Waterways Of Pathogens, Contamination (July 24, 2009)

» Can Neuroscientists Read Your Mind with fMRI? (July 23, 2009)

» A Tale of Brain's Incredible Ability to Rewire Itself (July 23, 2009)

» Structure of Hep E Decoded Through X-ray Crystallography (July 23, 2009)

» A Faster Way to Image Protein Structures (July 22, 2009)

» Brain Rewires Own Circuits to Accomodate New Prosthetics (July 21, 2009)

» Location of 3D Image Processing in Brain Identified (July 21, 2009)

» Video Promoting Nanomedicine Wins a Telly Award (July 21, 2009)

» "Exploring the mind of a killer" (July 21, 2009)

» Smarter Algorithms Lead to Better Robotic Arms (July 21, 2009)

» New Study in Pediatrics Touts "Exergaming" (July 20, 2009)

» Liquid/Gel Morphing Material for Post MI Heart Healing (July 20, 2009)

» World's Medical Gadgetry Center On Track for Construction (July 17, 2009)

» Ultrasound Used for Taxonomy of "Clicking" Languages (July 16, 2009)

» Wii CPR Training in the Works (July 16, 2009)

» Latest State of Equine Stem Cell Therapies (July 15, 2009)

» NEMOSLAB Detects Target Molecules in Blood (July 15, 2009)

» Baby Goose Gets a Chance at Life Thanks to Metal Leg Brace (July 14, 2009)

» For Tender Feet, Shoes Simulate Barefoot Running Safely (July 14, 2009)

» Transporter Molecules Target Prostate Cancer (July 13, 2009)

» In Bacterial Colonies, Group Behavior Activated by Density, Not Quantity (July 10, 2009)

» 16 Patient Kidney Transplant a World's First (July 10, 2009)

» Flexible, Lenseless Fiber Based Cameras Developed (July 10, 2009)

» Kary Mullis Sets His Cunning Mind Against Bacterial Pathogens (July 10, 2009)

» Surgical Adhesives Targeting Specific Tissue Properties for Improved Stickiness (July 10, 2009)

» An Intriguing Medical Technology Story (July 8, 2009)

» TED Talk: "3 Ways The Brain Creates Meaning" (July 7, 2009)

» Short Pulse Laser for AMD (July 7, 2009)

» Microparticle Therapy to Prep Immune System for Organ Transplantation (July 6, 2009)

» Birds Exhibit Longest Suspected Quantum Entanglement (July 6, 2009)

» New Imaging Technology Monitors HER2 Protein (July 2, 2009)

» Mysteries of Salamander Regeneration Revealed (July 2, 2009)

» Airline Routes Predict Pathogen Spread (July 1, 2009)

» Trojan Horse Minicells Sneak On, Destroy Unsuspecting Tumors (June 29, 2009)

» AbioCor Total Artificial Heart Proving Its Mettle (June 29, 2009)

» Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps Post Stroke Brain Recover (June 25, 2009)

» Urine Test for Appendicitis? (June 25, 2009)

» Collegiate Biomed Engineering Prizes Awarded (June 24, 2009)

» Optogenetics Focuses on Parkinson's Treatment (June 24, 2009)

» New Mass Spectrometry Technology Developed (June 23, 2009)

» "Surgery's Past, Present and Robotic Future" (June 22, 2009)

» Medtronic's Aggressive Move into Diabetes Market (June 19, 2009)

» Having Jet Lag? New Algorithm Will Take You Through "Model-Based Schedule Design" (June 19, 2009)

» Saser, The Sound Laser Developed (June 19, 2009)

» Synthetic/Natural Hybrid Material to Help With Nerve Repair (June 18, 2009)

» Telemedicine Helps Local Nurseries Get Experienced Specialist Assistance (June 18, 2009)

» Artificially Grown Microlungs to Improve Pulmonary Therapy Development (June 17, 2009)

» The Bio-Engineering Feedback Loop (June 17, 2009)

» The Latest from The Big Brains of Neuroscience (June 16, 2009)

» The Latest On Laser Use in Medical Applications (June 15, 2009)

» "Motion-Frozen" Technology Takes The Blur Out of PET (June 15, 2009)

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» Watching Memory Formation Uncovers New Biological Processes (June 15, 2009)

» New Technique Images Rotavirus Interacting With Immune System (June 12, 2009)

» Pressure Jumping Induces Protein Folding for Research (June 12, 2009)

» Mechanical Nanozipper Senses Individual Photons (June 10, 2009)

» Two New Wireless Standards Unveiled for Medical Devices (June 10, 2009)

» Virtual Twins to Get Physicians Acquainted Before Working on The Real Patient (June 10, 2009)

» Flexible Memory Opens Doors to New Age of Medical Body Sensors (June 5, 2009)

» Stimulating The Brain With High Frequency Sound Waves (June 5, 2009)

» Smart Software Helps Disabled Get a New Voice (June 5, 2009)

» High Tech Advancements in Modern Microscopy (June 5, 2009)

» Decellularised Hybrid Hearts May Overcome Barriers to Transplantation (June 4, 2009)

» Photosynthesis Thought to Exhibit Quantum Entanglement Phenomenon (June 4, 2009)

» Electrocorticography to Link Brains of Paralyzed With Computers, Wheelchairs, Etc (June 3, 2009)

» Nintendo Wii Makes Pulse Oximetry Fun (June 3, 2009)

» Newly Developed Gel May Usher In Protein Chip Technology (June 2, 2009)

» Simple Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise in Treating Corneal Damage (June 1, 2009)

» Cells that Like to Count (June 1, 2009)

» The Curious Case of Missing Fingerprints (May 27, 2009)

» Antibacterial Design Fights Hospital Bugs (May 27, 2009)

» The History and Future of Global Epidemic Control (May 27, 2009)

» Why Down Syndrome is Linked to Reduced Cancer Risk (May 26, 2009)

» A New Way to Look At The Global Spread of AIDS (May 26, 2009)

» Drug Eluting Contact Lenses in The Works (May 21, 2009)

» Laser Tweezers Manipulate Cells Under Environmental Stress (May 19, 2009)

» Micro-device to Control Bacteria Movement (May 18, 2009)

» Tiny Implantable Devices to Help Treat Chronic Pain (May 15, 2009)

» Medical Devices Expanding Radio Frequency Presence (May 15, 2009)

» World's Greatest Visual Illusions of The Year Announced (May 14, 2009)

» Lessons from Seventy Years of Watching Human Lives Unfold (May 13, 2009)

» Machine Keeps Animal Hearts Beating for Research (May 13, 2009)

» Success Shown in Pancreatic Interspecies Transplantation (May 12, 2009)

» "Down With the Gown" Redesigns Drab Hospital Wear (May 12, 2009)

» TEDMED. We'll Be There. We're Excited. (May 12, 2009)

» Stem Cells and Nanoscaffolds May Serve as Replacement for Damaged Cartilage (May 11, 2009)

» Smart Nanobox Built Out of DNA Origami (May 8, 2009)

» Lab-on-Chip Detects, Identifies Specific Malarial Strains (May 4, 2009)

» Breath Tests Detect Lung CA Without Biopsies (May 4, 2009)

» Spider Silk, Weaponized (May 4, 2009)

» Every Cell Is Precious, Every Cell is Great (May 4, 2009)

» Games For Health Conference (May 1, 2009)

» World's Fastest Camera to Document, Diagnose Biological Activity (May 1, 2009)

» Stainless Steel Microneedles for Flu Vaccine Delivery (April 30, 2009)

» Learning From Past Disease Epidemics (April 30, 2009)

» Michael Merzenich: Exploring the re-wiring of the brain (April 29, 2009)

» Ultra Powerful Hard X-Ray Source to Light New Frontiers in Fundamental Research (April 29, 2009)

» Electron Microscopes Reveal Deadly Bacterial Action (April 28, 2009)

» EBay Auction Offers Complete Personal DNA Sequencing (April 27, 2009)

» Wiimote Is Not Only For Gaming Anymore (April 27, 2009)

» Scientists Develop Myocardial Ischemia Sensor (April 27, 2009)

» Researchers Explain Elusiveness of HIV Vaccine (April 24, 2009)

» Child Delivery Has Never Been Easy (April 22, 2009)

» Scientists Optically Deconstruct Parkinsonian Neural Circuitry (April 20, 2009)

» Youngest Patient Fitted With Carbon Fiber Leg Prostheses (April 20, 2009)

» Separating Chirality With Microfluidics (April 16, 2009)

» New Real-Time Sensor Watches Oxygen Levels in Brain (April 16, 2009)

» When Ears Replace Eyes (April 16, 2009)

» Encapsulating Pancreatic Cells Can Lead to Safer Transplantations (April 14, 2009)

» Is Twitter Making You a Cold, Heartless Being? (April 14, 2009)

» Atomic Bombs Yield Cardiology Data (April 14, 2009)

» Restless Legs for Fun and Gaming (April 13, 2009)

» TED Talk: The Chemical Language of Bacteria (April 13, 2009)

» Brain Model Helps Explain Working Memory Limitations (April 7, 2009)

» The Mysteries of Itch Scratching Being Revealed (April 7, 2009)

» True 3-D Nanofluidic Devices Under Development (April 3, 2009)

» Smart Sensors Help Improve Prostheses Personalization (April 3, 2009)

» Advanced Photon Source Helps See Influenza Structural Variations (March 31, 2009)

» MRI Technology Getting Serious Boost Using Magnetic Markers (March 30, 2009)

» Action Video Games Improve Visual Contrast Quality (March 30, 2009)

» Faulty House Wiring Activates ICD (March 27, 2009)

» TEDMED Coming to San Diego in October (March 27, 2009)

» Pills Filmed Breaking Up at Molecular Level (March 25, 2009)

» Test Developed to Predict Breast Cancer Spreading (March 25, 2009)

» Brain Atlas Brings Automation to Study of Brain (March 25, 2009)

» Spinal Column Stimulation May Replace DBS for Parkinson's (March 23, 2009)

» Kids Trekking Up Everest to New Medical Laboratory (March 20, 2009)

» How We Rationalize Our Slightly Immoral Habits (March 20, 2009)

» Fiber Optics Activate Neurons, Axons to Answer Parkinson's Questions (March 19, 2009)

» Medgadget Attends 2009 Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Medical Technology Awards (March 19, 2009)

» HARDI Scanner Says Intelligence Is Inherited (March 18, 2009)

» USB Ring Finger Drive (March 18, 2009)

» Glucose May Serve as One of Body's Signaling Chemicals (March 17, 2009)

» "How my legs give me super-powers" (March 16, 2009)

» Biology of Sex, a Lecture (March 16, 2009)

» Hyperbaric Treatment Helps Autistic Children Improve Social Ability (March 13, 2009)

» Brain Injuries Help Map Out Brain Intelligence Map (March 12, 2009)

» Wind Activated Fruit Flies Explain Wiring of Brain (March 12, 2009)

» Scurrying Hamsters Generate Electricity (March 11, 2009)

» Nanocoating Improves Brain - Electrode Connections (March 11, 2009)

» Helium Helps Increase Exercise Intensity in COPD Pts (March 10, 2009)

» Ozone Injections Relieve Pain in Herniated Lower Back Disks (March 10, 2009)

» Scientists Watch Brain Networks Rewire Themselves (March 10, 2009)

» Remind Yourself about Sunscreen with Cell Phone Texting (March 9, 2009)

» Nanotechnology Shows Promise of Artificial Retinas (March 9, 2009)

» Biosensors Help Build Personalized Amusement Rides (March 9, 2009)

» Skin Drug Patches May Flare Up During MRI (March 6, 2009)

» Sugar Helps Light Up Bacteria (March 6, 2009)

» Gland-like Artificial Biostructures Created (March 6, 2009)

» Smarter Vaccines Offer Better Training for Immune System (March 6, 2009)

» Eyes As Photon Detectors for Quantum Experiments (March 5, 2009)

» Lab Test for Organic Milk? (March 4, 2009)

» How EMR Is Used in General Practice (March 4, 2009)

» Fishing for Antibiotics in The Sea (March 3, 2009)

» How Animal Species See Each Other (March 3, 2009)

» The Art and Science of Wiring Up Brains (March 3, 2009)

» Why The Flu Sets In During Winter? (March 3, 2009)

» How The $100 Genome Could Be Soon Possible (March 3, 2009)

» Viewing Smallest Biological Objects with Hard X-ray Nanoprobe (March 2, 2009)

» Expandable Prosthetic Grows as Child Grows (March 2, 2009)

» DIY Culture Now Encompasses Home Made Prosthesis (February 25, 2009)

» Proteins Identified to Fight Influenza (February 24, 2009)

» Scientists Link Genetics to Warfarin Pharmacokinetics (February 23, 2009)

» Cooperation Between Nerve Cells Makes Smart Brain Networks (February 18, 2009)

» Computed Tomography Images Ancient Egyptian Mummy (February 18, 2009)

» Light Switches Regulate Formation and Separation of DNA Duplex (February 17, 2009)

» Neural Modeling Aims to Explain Seizures (February 17, 2009)

» Speeding Bone Union with Own Cells in Fracture Patients (February 17, 2009)

» Scientists Developing Artificial Shark Uterus (February 17, 2009)

» Scientists Create Living Cellular Mass Doll (February 10, 2009)

» Tuberculosis Helps Answer How Genes Switch On and Off (February 9, 2009)

» "The Future of Human Health: Seven Very Short Talks That Will Blow Your Mind" (February 9, 2009)

» Mobile Phones for Bacterial Analysis (February 5, 2009)

» Scientists Hope Superbug Fighting Emulsion Will Kill Cystic Fibrosis Infections (February 4, 2009)

» Mammography Technique Assesses Chemo Effectiveness (February 3, 2009)

» Video: Dr. Joe DeRisi Hunts the Next Killer Virus (February 2, 2009)

» Nanotubes Help Stem Cells Regrow Bone Tissue (February 2, 2009)

» Scientists Discover Key Mechanism of Vision (February 2, 2009)

» African Clawed Frogs May Help Find Cure for Skin Cancer (January 30, 2009)

» Natural Antibiotics to Safely Coat Medical Devices (January 30, 2009)

» System to Study Muscle Cells in Motion (January 29, 2009)

» Smart Polymer Leads to In Vivo Immunotherapy (January 28, 2009)

» Rearranging Nanotubes, Scientists Are Building Neuro Circuits (January 28, 2009)

» Researchers Say That Smart Metallic Surfaces May Lead to Better Prostheses (January 27, 2009)

» How Stomach Bacteria Can Trace Prehistoric Events (January 27, 2009)

» Flexible Electronics Might Signal New Era of Embeddable Medical Devices (January 26, 2009)

» A Hack In Live Cells Explains Circadian Rhythms (January 23, 2009)

» Layman's Intro to Genomics (January 23, 2009)

» Scientists Obtain New Functional Imagery of Schizophrenia (January 22, 2009)

» Obesity, Gender, and The Quirky Human Brain (January 20, 2009)

» Plants Engineered to Produce New Drugs (January 20, 2009)

» Tiny Vibrating Cantilevers Detect (and Presumably Massage) Viruses (January 20, 2009)

» Mining Tiny Animals for New Bacteriocides (January 20, 2009)

» New MRI Contrast Agent Under Development (January 16, 2009)

» New Material Helps Grow New Blood Vessels (January 15, 2009)

» Photo Camera for Nearly Blind Developed at MIT (January 15, 2009)

» Photo Camera for Nearly Blind Developed at MIT (January 15, 2009)

» Discover Mag Looks at Quantum Biology (January 14, 2009)

» Compression Helps With Restless Legs (January 14, 2009)

» 3-D Virus Imaging wth Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (January 14, 2009)

» Smart Chemistry Helps With Antibiotic Compliance (January 13, 2009)

» Don't Throw Off Warburg Theory of Cancer Just Yet (January 12, 2009)

» Carbon Nanotubes Boost Neuron Signaling Abilities (January 8, 2009)

» Destroying Amyloid Fibers with Laser Light (January 8, 2009)

» Researchers Copy Mechanism of Smart Cellular Membranes (January 8, 2009)

» Mysterious Force to Help Build Future Nanomachines (January 7, 2009)

» New Titanium-Glass Composite for Medical Apps? (January 7, 2009)

» Silk Harnessed to Build Implantable Medical Devices (January 6, 2009)

» Model Helps Develop Better Cardiac Stent Designs (January 6, 2009)

» Light Used to Trap, Move DNA (January 6, 2009)

» DNA Nanotubes Controlled by Gold Particles (January 5, 2009)

» Learning What's Under the Hood of a Virus (January 5, 2009)

» FDA OKs New Drug That Lengthens Eye Lashes (January 2, 2009)

» Virulence Factor Found for 1918 Flu (January 2, 2009)

» Quantum Cascade Lasers and the Future of Medical Diagnostics (December 30, 2008)

» Manufacturing Antibodies Goes Sugar Free (December 30, 2008)

» Christmas Cheer May Improve Brain Performance! (December 30, 2008)

» "Evocative Gene-Environment Correlation": Do Geeks Result From Decreased Expression of a "Rule-Breaking" Gene? (December 30, 2008)

» Giant Magnetoresistance Now for Cancer Detection (December 22, 2008)

» A New Technique to Monitor Immune Cell Response Migration (December 19, 2008)

» Bacteria Forced to Mutate Into Oblivion (December 19, 2008)

» From Migrant Worker to Surgeon: The Incredible Journey of Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa (December 19, 2008)

» Volumetric Petri Dish Grows Cells in 3D (December 17, 2008)

» The Yawning Brain Explained (December 17, 2008)

» Car Parts Incubator Aims to Put the Brakes on Infant Mortality (December 16, 2008)

» Studying the Chameleon-like Properties of Giardia Parasite (December 15, 2008)

» Carbon Nanotubes Used to Detect Toxins That Damage DNA (December 15, 2008)

» Autoimmunity and Sex...Why the Disparity? (December 15, 2008)

» A Look Into Mass Cell Movement During Early Embryogenesis (December 12, 2008)

» Museum Exhibit Features Historic Iraq Military Hospital (December 12, 2008)

» Filming The Immune System in Action (December 11, 2008)

» NEURiNFARCT for Predicting Cerebral Infarct Development (December 11, 2008)

» New Prosthesis Attached Directly Into Bone (December 11, 2008)

» "Versatile Antimicrobial Coatings from Plasma Deposited Hydrogels and Hydrogel Composites" (December 10, 2008)

» FDA Pulls Back on Prescription Pistol (December 8, 2008)

» Text Messaging Surgical Instructions...It's "Easy! Good Luck" (December 8, 2008)

» Colon Cancer and Osteoporosis...What's The Link? (December 8, 2008)

» Predicting Effectiveness of Vaccine Immunizations (December 5, 2008)

» Rock Band with Disabilities Plays at UN (December 5, 2008)

» City-Wide Test of Therapeutic Hypothermia Post MI (December 5, 2008)

» This Is Your Brain On Placebos! (December 4, 2008)

» Polyandry...Males May Not Need To Take All The Heat For "Bad" Behavior (December 3, 2008)

» Medicare to Cover Prescription Handguns? (December 3, 2008)

» AskNature.org: Get Inspired by Evolution (December 2, 2008)

» Scientists Tackle Quantum Mechanics to Improve MRI Sensitivity (December 1, 2008)

» CorE Concepts in Cardiac Investigations (December 1, 2008)

» Testosterone..."The Perfect Weapon of Mass Destruction" (November 26, 2008)

» Individually Manufactured Replacement Bones in Clinical Trial (November 26, 2008)

» Audio Interview: How Hormones Influence World Markets (November 25, 2008)

» New Fabric Resists Water Like No Other (November 25, 2008)

» Guitar Hero Repurposed to Help Train Bionic Arms (November 24, 2008)

» Online Powered Earthquake Drill Hits Southern California (November 21, 2008)

» Romantic Love Can Last...Was Einstein Wrong? (November 19, 2008)

» A First: Organ Grown From Stem Cells Transplanted Into Human Patient (November 19, 2008)

» Pentagon Wants Portable Red Blood Factories (November 19, 2008)

» MicroArray $1500 Challenge... Hurry Before Jethro Ciphers It First! (November 19, 2008)

» Nanoporous Ceramic Membranes May Serve as Material for Medical Devices (November 17, 2008)

» EA's Wii Fit Balance Board "Killer": An Elastic Band (November 14, 2008)

» DNA Makes for Great Network Cable (November 14, 2008)

» Mysteries of Bleach Revealed (November 14, 2008)

» Cleveland Clinic's Top Ten Medical Innovations 2009 (November 12, 2008)

» Visualized: Hearing Inside the Brain (November 11, 2008)

» Japanese Scientists Merge Synchrotron and CT to See Arteries Like Never Before (November 10, 2008)

» Audio Headphones May Interfere With Implanted Cardiac Devices (November 10, 2008)

» Biological Clock Regulates More Genes Than Previously Thought (November 10, 2008)

» Cells as Mules for Drug Transport (November 7, 2008)

» First Cancer Genome Sequenced (November 6, 2008)

» WPC Medgadget Building on Track for 2013 (November 5, 2008)

» A Quick Look at Status of Robotic Surgery (November 4, 2008)

» Bio-compatible Ice Slurry for Ischemic Damage Control (November 3, 2008)

» Scientists Create Porous, Elastomeric Scaffold for Cardiac Tissue Engineering (November 3, 2008)

» Electronic Nose for Chemical Detection (October 30, 2008)

» Hard Drive Technology Set to Detect Disease (October 30, 2008)

» Self-Powered Sensors: Electricity From Gas and Water (October 29, 2008)

» Scientists Working on Engineered Artificial Antibodies (October 29, 2008)

» New Continuous Flow Heart Pump Under Development (October 28, 2008)

» Playing Piano With Feet Tied Behind Back (October 27, 2008)

» Intro to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (October 27, 2008)

» Science Finally Wipes Memories Clean (October 27, 2008)

» Brain Neurons Used as Components for Computer Circuit (October 24, 2008)

» Glowing Cats Light Own Way (October 24, 2008)

» Simcyp Rat Simulator for Drug Kinetics Modeling (October 24, 2008)

» Watching The Gurgling of The Gut (October 23, 2008)

» Stem Cell Grown Into Prostate (October 23, 2008)

» "Stayin' Alive" for Stayin' Alive (October 21, 2008)

» Nanowire Research Benefits Neural Probe Design (October 20, 2008)

» Building Artificial Neural Connections (October 20, 2008)

» Building a Future: ACS Profiles New Surgical Technologies (October 17, 2008)

» Fish Pedicure Is Now an Outlaw in Texas (October 17, 2008)

» Super Strong: Scientists Create Gecko-foot-mimetic Dry Adhesive (October 16, 2008)

» Health Care X PRIZE: Health Care Revolution Through Competition (October 16, 2008)

» Stem Cells From Skin Cells...Phew! (October 14, 2008)

» First Complete Blueprint of Embryo of Vertebrate Created (October 10, 2008)

» Testicles May Be New Source of Stem Cells (October 10, 2008)

» Storm-petrel DNA Gives Clues to Cellular Aging (October 10, 2008)

» Prostatic Acid Phosphatase May One Day Replace Morphine for Pain Control (October 10, 2008)

» Man Gets New Arms (October 9, 2008)

» The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008: Jellyfish and Green Fluorescence (October 8, 2008)

» 72% Reduction in SIDS! Fans Everywhere Are Spinning. (October 7, 2008)

» How Stress Affects Thinking (October 6, 2008)

» The 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded for Viral Discoveries (October 6, 2008)

» Space Technology Aids in Human Flight (October 3, 2008)

» Making Strides: In Vivo Nanoparticle Detection Technology (October 3, 2008)

» TI Delivers Smart Electronics for Handheld Ultrasounds (October 3, 2008)

» Genes Listen to Guidance on The FM Dial (October 2, 2008)

» Finding Cellular Switches Using Powerful Computers (October 1, 2008)

» WSJ 2008 Technology Innovation Award Winners Announced (September 29, 2008)

» Combined Technique to Observe Electron Transfer Reactions (September 25, 2008)

» Mobile, Accurate Water Pathogen Testing In The Works (September 23, 2008)

» Scientists Resolve How Immune System Attacks Body's Own Infected Cells (September 22, 2008)

» UK Hospitals To Standardize DVT Risk Assessment (September 19, 2008)

» Synthetic Biology Breeding Basement Labs (September 19, 2008)

» Collective Mentality Permeates to The Lowest Life Form (September 18, 2008)

» EEG Used to Convict Murder Suspect (September 17, 2008)

» Artificial Ears Provide Real Hearing Improvement (September 17, 2008)

» Mann's Inhaled Insulin Passes Big Test (September 16, 2008)

» Scientists: Bisphenol A Is Associated with Heart Disease, Diabetes (September 16, 2008)

» 7 Tesla, Baby! (September 15, 2008)

» 2008 Paralympic Games in Pictures (September 15, 2008)

» Tuberculosis Vaccine Going on Trial (September 12, 2008)

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» Liver Cell Receptor Links Cholesterol and Malaria (September 12, 2008)

» Scientists: Optic Nerve Sheath on MRI Can Be Used to Detect Increased Intracranial Pressure (September 11, 2008)

» NIH Issues Report on Bisphenol A (September 11, 2008)

» Bears in Space (September 11, 2008)

» Helium Ion Microscopy Goes Through Paces (September 10, 2008)

» How Good Is Your Memory? Probably Better than You Think. (September 10, 2008)

» Harvard Scientists Doing God's Work (September 9, 2008)

» Gigantic Ruler to Measure Tiny Distances (September 8, 2008)

» Bioprospecting Arctic's DNAs (September 8, 2008)

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» Drawing The Genetic Map of Europe (September 8, 2008)

» Scientists Develop Thermoresponsive Polymer That Changes Bio-adhesion Properties (September 2, 2008)

» Let The Games Begin (August 29, 2008)

» Forbes Article on New Med Technologies (August 29, 2008)

» No Stem Cells Needed: Adult Cells Turned From One Type to Another (August 28, 2008)

» Scientists: Is Sleep Essential? (August 27, 2008)

» Century Old Overton Rule Shown False (August 27, 2008)

» Bioglass Secrets Revealed With NMR (August 27, 2008)

» Computer Model of Natively Unfolded Proteins Reveals Alzheimer's Secrets (August 25, 2008)

» Dr Fish Spa: A New Way to Spend Money (August 25, 2008)

» On The Road to a Fully Synthetic Heparin (August 22, 2008)

» euHeart Computer Modeling Project Aims to Build a Virtual Heart (August 22, 2008)

» Protein Markers Signal True Biological Age (August 22, 2008)

» Science Behind Amerithrax Investigation Revealed (August 22, 2008)

» MRI for Detection of Early Arthritis (August 21, 2008)

» Medical Gadget Gossip Provided by Intel, Panasonic (August 20, 2008)

» Smelling Out Skin Cancer (August 20, 2008)

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» Scientists Make Stable, Highly Pure Helical Peptide Arrays (August 18, 2008)

» Rubblescope for Mighty Tremors (August 18, 2008)

» Occiflex for Neck and Head Pain Reduction (August 18, 2008)

» IBM Manages Your Brain Memory Overflow (August 14, 2008)

» The Large Hadron Collider: A Photo Essay (August 11, 2008)

» Noses, Penises, Bicycle Saddles, and The Police (August 8, 2008)

» The Science of Herding Bacteria (August 8, 2008)

» Anthrax Investigation Highlights Modern Biomolecular Forensic Technology (August 7, 2008)

» Can You "Hear" Movement? (August 7, 2008)

» Immunoregulatory Macrophage May End Need for Anti-Rejection Drugs (August 7, 2008)

» Chinese Medicine in 21st Century (August 5, 2008)

» Nonwoven Material May Lead to Novel Medical Fabrics and Devices (August 4, 2008)

» Nature Insight: Inflammation (August 1, 2008)

» Marriage of Innovative Graphic Hardware and Software Technologies Makes for Powerful Spinal Simulation (August 1, 2008)

» Music Used to Analyze Gene Expression (July 21, 2008)

» Artificial Liver Culture as Platform for Hep C Research (July 18, 2008)

» Mosquitos Provide Design Inspiration for Next Generation Microneedles (July 18, 2008)

» Feeling The Feet for Balance Problems (July 17, 2008)

» Better Neural Implants Through Conductive Polymers (July 17, 2008)

» Scientists Force Cells to Self-Assemble into Tissue-like Stuctures (July 17, 2008)

» Demo Call for World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (July 15, 2008)

» MitoCarta, An Online Mitochondrial Inventory, Goes Clinical (July 15, 2008)

» Scientists Identify "Exported" Proteins in Malaria (July 15, 2008)

» Intramuscular Endoscopy Offers a Novel Look at Muscle Machinery (July 11, 2008)

» Viruses Help Scientists to Track Tooth and Bone Mineralization (July 11, 2008)

» Infrared Device to Test IVF Embryo Viability (July 11, 2008)

» Personalized Medicine Explained (July 10, 2008)

» 'Optical Tweezers' Used to Measure Protein Bonds (July 8, 2008)

» Scientists Report A New Method of Biological Radiolabeling (July 8, 2008)

» Killing Bugs With E&M (July 2, 2008)

» Could Hair be Used to Detect Breast Cancer? (July 1, 2008)

» Wormgadget: Hookworm Allergy Treatment (July 1, 2008)

» Nerve Cells Made from Stem Cells Successfully Transplanted (June 30, 2008)

» Genome Synthesis Technique for Virus Vaccine Development (June 30, 2008)

» Should FDA Approval Waive Liability? (June 25, 2008)

» First Full Female Genome Sequenced (June 23, 2008)

» Monitoring Crystal Structure of Manufactured Drugs (June 23, 2008)

» An Important Message for Contact Lens Users in Flooded Areas (June 20, 2008)

» T Cell Cloning as Potential Cancer Treatment (June 19, 2008)

» The Forward Thinking Brain (June 18, 2008)

» Medgadget Legends: Robert Langer Wins World's Biggest Technology Prize (June 16, 2008)

» World's First Petaflop Supercomputer Makes Modeling Neurons Look Easy (June 16, 2008)

» Bacterial Chemical Sensors on the Horizon? (June 13, 2008)

» How Spicy is Your Meatball? (June 12, 2008)

» Elementary Cells Created Artificially (June 12, 2008)

» Pressure as Tool for Cartilage Growth (June 12, 2008)

» Shocking Court Decision in Taser Wrongful Death Case (June 12, 2008)

» Bright Lights Help Dementia Sufferers (June 11, 2008)

» Live Cell Imaging on Nano Scale with Multicolor 3D-SIM Technique (June 10, 2008)

» Hello Health: Franchised Healthcare in Web 2.0 (June 10, 2008)

» Rapid Sequencing May Lead to "Personalized" Vitamins (June 9, 2008)

» Mercury Drama: FDA Settles Dental Filling Lawsuit (June 6, 2008)

» Synthetic Turf Safe to Play, Chew on (June 6, 2008)

» Mighty Bubbles for Better Foams (June 6, 2008)

» No Need for Popping Vitamins When You Have Bioactive Glass (June 6, 2008)

» Awards Announced for BMEidea Competition (June 4, 2008)

» Orbiting Sump Pump Update (June 3, 2008)

» Scientists Come Up with Optical Cardiac Pacemaker (June 2, 2008)

» Digital Clubbing Explained (May 30, 2008)

» The Mind is a Difficult Thing to Read (May 30, 2008)

» Scientific Fauxtography Is More Common Than You Think (May 30, 2008)

» First Video of Birth of HIV Virion (May 30, 2008)

» Polio Miracle Woman Dies Due to Electricity Failure (May 29, 2008)

» The Loo is Buggered, Visit The One Down Below (May 29, 2008)

» Bioluminescence Imaging , a New Technique to Track Tumors (May 29, 2008)

» Utilizing Evolutionary Mechanisms of Human-Bacterial Symbiosis (May 28, 2008)

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» To Live and To Blog (May 23, 2008)

» Scientists Developing Transfusable Blood from Stem Cells (May 23, 2008)

» Music in the ICU (May 22, 2008)

» Researchers Determine Structure of Protein in an "Environmentally Friendly" Bacterium (May 21, 2008)

» Scientists Pinpoint Source Cells of Antibodies (May 20, 2008)

» First Transgenic Monkey Model of Huntington's Disease (May 19, 2008)

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» Scientists Discover Heat Sensing Regulator (May 14, 2008)

» Successful Gene Expression Profiling Performed on Embryos (May 14, 2008)

» Blow Up Love Dolls Recruited in Fight Against Genital Mutilation (May 12, 2008)

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» Medical Pixie Dust: Is It Finally Here? (May 6, 2008)

» Cellular Quality Control via Organelle Autophagy (May 5, 2008)

» MIT Tech Review Talks to Systems Biologist Leroy Hood (May 5, 2008)

» Cheaper Methods for Remote Medical Imaging (May 5, 2008)

» Shiny, Happy, Medilicious (April 30, 2008)

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» The Human Speechome Project (April 28, 2008)

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» The Social Ladder Is Really In Your Head (April 25, 2008)

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» Claim: Mother's Diet May Determine Child's Gender (April 23, 2008)

» fMRI Scanners Used to Detect Wandering Mind (April 23, 2008)

» Defense Department Sponsors Aggressive Stem Cell Research (April 23, 2008)

» The Search for Breast Cancer Biomarkers (April 22, 2008)

» Up in Flames: Nanobacteria Found to Be Abiotic (April 21, 2008)

» What Is The Most Common Life-Like Form on Earth? (April 21, 2008)

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» How Endogenous Steroids Rule on the Trading Floor (April 15, 2008)

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» The Kanzius Machine (April 15, 2008)

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» Lubricant Found to Oil Micromechanical Systems (April 8, 2008)

» Thoughts on a Mobile Medical Future (April 8, 2008)

» Paper: "Death By Blogging" (April 7, 2008)

» Rapid Peptoid Screening Method Developed (April 4, 2008)

» IBM's Blue Gene Drafted Into War On HIV (April 4, 2008)

» Viruses May be Vital for Life on Earth (April 4, 2008)

» AEDs for the Home: A Good Idea, But Not Better than CPR (April 3, 2008)

» Molecular Gastronomy or The Science of Cooking (April 2, 2008)

» Moody's: Future for Medgadgets Bright (April 2, 2008)

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» Scientists Spot Amino Acetonitrile in the Middle of Milky Way (April 2, 2008)

» Watching Brain Repair Live on MRI (March 31, 2008)

» 28th Annual AMA Medical Communications Conference (March 27, 2008)

» Under Development: Patch for Monitoring Transplant Organ Health (March 27, 2008)

» Researchers Explain Severity of Ionizing Radiation Damage (March 24, 2008)

» 3D Imaging of Bleomycin-DNA Binding (March 21, 2008)

» Assessing Heat Related Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms (March 20, 2008)

» Stroke of Insight: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor at TED 2008 (March 19, 2008)

» Metagenomics Bioinformatics Technology Offers Better Understanding of Microbes (March 17, 2008)

» Femtosecond Lazers: Killing Cancer & Fusing Metal to Bone (March 14, 2008)

» Medgadget Goes to 2008 Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Med Tech Awards (March 14, 2008)

» Handheld Biosensor Uses Stickly Nanotech to Capture DNA (March 14, 2008)

» Synthetic Superheroes Battle Superbugs (March 12, 2008)

» Microscopy Breakthrough: Scientists See Virus in Great Detail (March 11, 2008)

» Epocrates on iPhone: A Presentation at SDK Event (March 10, 2008)

» Scientists Zero In on Cell Envelope of Tuberculosis Bacterium (March 7, 2008)

» Another Strep Vaccine in the Works (March 7, 2008)

» Study Explains Winter Flu Season (March 6, 2008)

» How to Make a Better Placebo (March 5, 2008)

» Frog Secretions Offer Hope to Diabetic Patients (March 4, 2008)

» New Technique Images Small Brainstem Nuclei (March 3, 2008)

» TechCrunch Posts 23andMe Results (March 3, 2008)

» Scientists Automate Alzheimer's Identification (March 3, 2008)

» This Is Your Brain on Jazz (February 28, 2008)

» MIT Student Invents Effective Bacteriophage (February 28, 2008)

» Collagen Revealed at Unprecedented Level of Detail (February 26, 2008)

» Mammalian Taste Perception (February 26, 2008)

» Virus Recruited to Fight Brain Tumors (February 25, 2008)

» Project Aims to Develop Smart Hospital Beds of The Future (February 25, 2008)

» Mathematics of Tomography and Radiotherapy (February 25, 2008)

» Rubber With Heal Thyself Properties (February 22, 2008)

» Another Piece in Spanish Flu Puzzle (February 22, 2008)

» FINCHSCOPE Offers 3-D Holographic Microscopy Imaging (February 20, 2008)

» Engineering The Living World: Perspective From a Synthetic Biologist (February 20, 2008)

» Scientists Explain Long-Distance Signaling in Developing Neurons (February 20, 2008)

» Lenseless X-ray Microscopy (February 20, 2008)

» Gecko Tech for In Vivo Bandages (February 19, 2008)

» Graphics Cards, Algorithms, Faster MRI (February 14, 2008)

» Scientists Reprogram Human Skin Cells into Embryonic Stem Cells (February 12, 2008)

» Scientists Develop Tearless Onion (February 8, 2008)

» Knee Brace Generates Electricity (February 8, 2008)

» Transparent Fish for Cancer Research (February 7, 2008)

» Future of Scratch-Free Travel (February 6, 2008)

» Gecko Glue (February 4, 2008)

» Fœtuses as Medgadgets for Tumor Reduction (February 4, 2008)

» iPods and Pacemakers (February 1, 2008)

» Holography for Tissue Transparency (January 30, 2008)

» Total Recall (January 30, 2008)

» On Telepathy of DNA Molecules (January 28, 2008)

» Stem Cell Division and Hair Loss Link (January 25, 2008)

» Synthetic DNA in The Lab (January 24, 2008)

» Out of Body Out of Mind (January 24, 2008)

» Nanomechanical Analysis Reveals Cancer Cells Are Soft (January 24, 2008)

» Scientists Create "Safe Ebola" Virus (January 22, 2008)

» Google: Free Database Storage for Scientists (January 21, 2008)

» Wii for Surgical Training (January 18, 2008)

» Morgellons Disease: A New Skin Infection? CDC Wants to Know (January 16, 2008)

» NASA Astronomy Book for the Blind (January 16, 2008)

» Researchers Create Beating Heart In Lab (January 15, 2008)

» How Avian Flu May Become Human (January 15, 2008)

» Calcium Rich Carrots Engineered at TAMU; Tested at Baylor (January 14, 2008)

» How Culture Forms the Brain (January 14, 2008)

» "Proton Powered Pooping" (January 11, 2008)

» When Stomach Speaks But Brain Won't Listen (January 11, 2008)

» Life Machines (January 11, 2008)

» Tiny, Portable Chemical Analysis (January 11, 2008)

» Bears vs Osteoporosis (January 10, 2008)

» Scientists Claim Discovery Explaining Healing Effects of Magnets (January 4, 2008)

» Bio Glue from Sea Stars Offers Hope for Future Applications (January 4, 2008)

» Shape-Memory Polymers for BioMed Applications (January 4, 2008)

» LISA: Life Science Assistant Robot (January 4, 2008)

» Sound Science Through Sound Waves (January 3, 2008)

» Skin From Hair (January 3, 2008)

» Mushroom vs. Prostate CA (January 2, 2008)

» Futuristic Designs for Diabetes (December 27, 2007)

» Detecting Sequence-specific DNA Problems (December 21, 2007)

» Scientists Identify Genes Responsible for Fat Storage (December 19, 2007)

» Acetylcholine-like Polymers Stimulate, Guide Damaged Neurons (December 12, 2007)

» Does Time Slow in a Crisis? Scientists Measure Time Perception by Dropping Patients 150 Feet (December 12, 2007)

» From Spark Plugs to Valve Stents (December 11, 2007)

» Making The Medical Future (December 11, 2007)

» Scientists Cure Sickle Cell Anemia in Mouse Model (December 7, 2007)

» Sculpted 3-D Particles with Medical Potential (December 6, 2007)

» The Big Case (December 5, 2007)

» Segways as Medgadgets (December 5, 2007)

» BioScapes 2007 Winners Announced (November 28, 2007)

» Scientists ID Proteins Key to Brain Function (November 20, 2007)

» Antimicrobial Plastics from HeiQ (November 19, 2007)

» System on a Chip for Embedded Medical Devices (November 16, 2007)

» My iPod, My Cell, My Insulin Pump (November 12, 2007)

» Virtual Crack That's Not World of Warcraft (November 7, 2007)

» How The Heart Ages (November 5, 2007)

» A Sneaky Virus: Scientists Discover Hepatitis C Spreads Directly from Cell to Cell (November 5, 2007)

» Virus Killing Laser System (November 2, 2007)

» Archon X PRIZE for Genomics Video (October 29, 2007)

» Scientists Alter Sexual Orientation in Worms, Create In-Petri Dish Homosexuals (October 26, 2007)

» Scientists Capture Rolling Cells (October 25, 2007)

» Oliver Sacks on the Intrinsic Power of Music (October 19, 2007)

» Virtual Anatomy Course for Medical Students (October 17, 2007)

» Medtronic Suspends Distribution of Sprint Fidelis® Defibrillation Leads (October 15, 2007)

» A Look at the Complex Biochemistry of Breast and Colon CAs (October 15, 2007)

» Depletion of Nitric Oxide in Bank Blood Spells Trouble (October 10, 2007)

» Hexasaccharide Promise as a Novel Antibiotic (October 8, 2007)

» The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007: A Knockout Decision (October 8, 2007)

» Studying the Folding of Brains (October 4, 2007)

» A Theory Advanced: Alzheimer's Disease as Form of Diabetes (October 3, 2007)

» New Computational Biology Method Promises Better Drugs (October 1, 2007)

» Evolutionary Age of Smallpox Older Than Thought (September 28, 2007)

» New Electro-Magnetic Interference Force Discovered (September 26, 2007)

» Hints of Vanilla: Not Just for Whisky Anymore (September 18, 2007)

» Scientists Synthesize Intracellular Memory (September 17, 2007)

» Lasker Awards Announcement (September 17, 2007)

» Why Most Research Findings Are False (September 14, 2007)

» iPods vs Pacemakers and the Art of Medical Scaremongering (September 12, 2007)

» Old News New Again (September 10, 2007)

» Strength of Bones Investigated (September 7, 2007)

» Real Muscles for Artificial Machines (September 7, 2007)

» Cell Phones in Hospitals Debate Update (September 6, 2007)

» DocintheTV (September 6, 2007)

» Organs May Multiply Mutations (September 4, 2007)

» Supersize My Mouse (August 31, 2007)

» Store Stem Cells from Excess IVF Embryos (August 30, 2007)

» Scientists Report New Blood Pressure Control Mechanism (August 27, 2007)

» Scientists Discover Light-accentuated Bacterial Virulence (August 24, 2007)

» Virtual Reality for Virtual Unreality (August 24, 2007)

» Body Heat as Power Source (August 24, 2007)

» The Slow Pace of Memory Building (August 22, 2007)

» Developing... (August 22, 2007)

» Nanoparticle That Detects Hydrogen Peroxide (August 20, 2007)

» Ins and Outs (August 20, 2007)

» OneTouch UltraMini Giveaway (August 17, 2007)

» Counterfeit Glucose Tests Tracked by J&J to China (August 16, 2007)

» Tiny, Flexible Batteries for Future Implants (August 15, 2007)

» Boston Scientific Dumps Advanced Bionics (August 10, 2007)

» Syneron's Vela Now for Thigh Reductions (August 8, 2007)

» Technology to Eliminate Drunk Driving (August 6, 2007)

» Solved: An Important Protein Involved in Asthma (August 3, 2007)

» New York City to Build Medical Technology Tower, Showroom (August 2, 2007)

» Music Helps Understand Neural Dynamics (August 2, 2007)

» Deep Brain Stimulation Awakens Patient (August 1, 2007)

» Who's Minding the Mind? (August 1, 2007)

» The Leftie Gene (July 31, 2007)

» New Technique Watches and Protects Pancreatic Transplants (July 30, 2007)

» Jerky Insurance Guys Deny Hearing Aid for Girl without Ears (July 27, 2007)

» Oscar the Cat Sends Grandmas to Heaven (July 27, 2007)

» Claim: Scientists Create Allergy-free Peanuts (July 27, 2007)

» Scheduling Doctor Appointments via TV in UK (July 25, 2007)

» From UTIs to Brain: Scientists Discover Biochemical Model of Amyloid Formation (July 24, 2007)

» Geckos and Mussels Scrub Up for Surgery (July 20, 2007)

» New Theory for the Standing Human (July 18, 2007)

» Study: Toothpaste A Major Source Of Dental Damage (July 18, 2007)

» Siemens CT Scanner Reveals Contents of Bust of Nefertiti (July 17, 2007)

» The Fear Molecule? (July 16, 2007)

» Got Moles? They Might Be Good for You! (July 12, 2007)

» Unraveling How DNA Replicates (July 10, 2007)

» Scientists Achieve First Bacterial Genome Transplantation; Promise to Develop First Synthetic Organism (June 29, 2007)

» Urine is Useful! (June 29, 2007)

» Google Picks Experts for New Advisory Council; The World Complains (June 29, 2007)

» Buy an iPhone and Save African Children (June 27, 2007)

» A Really Close Look at Dirty Diaper (June 26, 2007)

» Humans As Medgadgets: Microsoft Edition (June 22, 2007)

» Make It Hot at TechCrunch20 (June 21, 2007)

» Skeleton 2.0: Bones Transmitting Data (June 18, 2007)

» Scientists Observe Live Cell Migration (June 11, 2007)

» "Fidget" Molecule (June 8, 2007)

» How to See Without Looking (June 6, 2007)

» Transplant Surgery Tragedy (June 6, 2007)

» National Spelling Bee: A Spawning Ground for Future Physicians and Obscure Diseases (June 1, 2007)

» Hacking My Kid's Brain: A Report at Wired (May 31, 2007)

» Glowing Caps Raise Compliance, Send Coupons (May 29, 2007)

» Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy (May 25, 2007)

» 100% O2 is a 110% bad idea (May 23, 2007)

» Invent Now 2007 Winners: X-Finger (May 16, 2007)

» UC Irvine Announces Project to Develop Patient-specific Stem Cell Lines (May 15, 2007)

» Observing Prions in Action (May 11, 2007)

» Encyclopedia of Life: 300 million pages of easy reading (May 10, 2007)

» Home Spit Test for Pre-eclampsia (May 7, 2007)

» $10,000 for an Anti-bacterial Shirt? (May 4, 2007)

» OUCH! (April 26, 2007)

» Scientists Discover New Virus Responsible For Post Transplant Deaths (April 24, 2007)

» High School Students Use Laser (Beams) to Help the Disabled (April 24, 2007)

» DNA Repair as Key to Huntington's Disease (April 23, 2007)

» How the Brain Analyzes Surface Appearance and Its Implications for Robotics (April 23, 2007)

» Banned: Crocs (April 20, 2007)

» Critical Step in Membrane Fusion Is... Hemifusion (April 18, 2007)

» World's Smallest Pipette Reveals Crystallization Dance of Nanoscale Drops (April 17, 2007)

» New Molecule Involved in the Body's Processesing of Dietary Fat (April 12, 2007)

» Cheap New Fabrication Technique for Manufacturing Human Spare Parts (April 12, 2007)

» InsectGadget: Caterpillars Show Promise as Flu Vaccine Factories (April 11, 2007)

» Chimeric Proteins for Lyme Vaccine (April 11, 2007)

» Regulatory Group Tells Healthcare Technologies to Play Nice (April 4, 2007)

» Condom testers needed. Test-ees not provided (April 2, 2007)

» Novel Antimicrobial Peptide Discovered (March 27, 2007)

» The Secrets of Radiation-resistant Bacteria (March 27, 2007)

» Call To Use More Everyday Technology In Health Care (March 26, 2007)

» Robotic Amoeba Use Whole Skin Locomotion (March 26, 2007)

» Medical Robotics: Robots Driven Through Your Arteries (March 20, 2007)

» Artificial Skin: Version 2.0 (March 12, 2007)

» Scientists Say Nerves Use Sound, Not Electricity (March 12, 2007)

» The First Commercially Available Brain Computer Interface (March 12, 2007)

» The Y2K7-DST Bug: Spring Forward, to Your Doom! (March 9, 2007)

» Fits Caused by Brushing Your Teeth (March 7, 2007)

» Hypercharging Tomatos with Folate (March 6, 2007)

» Rx: Oxygen, Morphine, Aspirin, and... Viagra? (March 5, 2007)

» Misleading Headline of the Week (March 2, 2007)

» Organ Regeneration via an Electric Switch (March 1, 2007)

» Telekinetic Video Games (March 1, 2007)

» The Left Tilt in Bacterial Hydrodynamics (February 26, 2007)

» New Findings in Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes (February 13, 2007)

» Scientists Achieve Tertiary Helical Bundles with β-Peptides (February 8, 2007)

» Pros and Cons of Nanofoods (February 8, 2007)

» Punch Counting Software May Predict Boxing Fatality (February 7, 2007)

» Link Fest / Link-O-Rama / Link-O-Tastic / Link-Mania (February 7, 2007)

» Action Video Games Sharpen Vision 20 Percent (February 6, 2007)

» Cancer and Aging: FISH-ing for Links (February 6, 2007)

» We're Professionals (February 1, 2007)

» Cancer Therapy Based on Missile Detection (January 31, 2007)

» Human Metabolism Through A Computational Approach (January 31, 2007)

» Inflammation and Cancer: A Link Established? (January 30, 2007)

» Wrinkled Polymer 'Skin' (January 30, 2007)

» Microwaving Sponges: The Aftermath (January 30, 2007)

» Bacteria Harnessed As Micro-Robot Motors (January 29, 2007)

» Productivity of the Pudgy to Skyrocket: Caffeinated Donuts on the Horizon (January 29, 2007)

» Contest Seeks Perfect 'Beware of Nanotechnology' Warning (January 29, 2007)

» Large-Scale Molecular Memory Chip, the Size of a RBC (January 26, 2007)

» Pearly White... Beetles? (January 26, 2007)

» Diving for Medicines (January 25, 2007)

» The Mystery of Consciousness (January 22, 2007)

» Telemedicine to Track Super-Athlete's Swim Down the Amazon (January 22, 2007)

» Nurse Bots by 2010: Bringing Sexy Back (January 22, 2007)

» Lethal Secrets of Spanish Flu Revealed (January 19, 2007)

» Lancet Announces Paper of the Year (January 19, 2007)

» Copying Wrinkles for Better Prosthetics (January 17, 2007)

» Ancient Book of Herbs Used in the War on Bacteria (January 17, 2007)

» Beating Heart Tissue and Blood Vessels Grown from Stem Cells (January 16, 2007)

» Medical Devices Piggybacking on Gaming Industry (January 15, 2007)

» Anti-Obesity Gum on The 'Weigh'? (January 15, 2007)

» A New One: 21U-RNA (January 12, 2007)

» Man Kills Dog (January 12, 2007)

» Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine "Flumist" Gets FDA Ok (January 12, 2007)

» "Father of Biomechanics" Y.C. Fung Wins Award (January 12, 2007)

» Medical Device Rep Turned Thief Sentenced to 6 Months in Jail (January 11, 2007)

» Apple introduces "iPhone" medical device (January 10, 2007)

» Amniotic Fluid-Derived Stem (AFS) Cells (January 8, 2007)

» 3-D Images of a Flu Virus (January 3, 2007)

» Imaging Pinpoints Brain Regions That 'See the Future' (January 3, 2007)

» The Science of Human Enhancement (January 2, 2007)

» The Vaccine to Prevent Every Strain of Flu (January 2, 2007)

» Medgadget Legend: Mark Knudson (December 29, 2006)

» Insanely Small Bacteria Discovered (December 27, 2006)

» Five New Technologies that Promise to Transform Medicine (December 26, 2006)

» Brain Wave Game Championship (December 26, 2006)

» iPod Access to Health Records Launched in US (December 26, 2006)

» Forisome Protein, a Key to Biomimetic Materials (December 21, 2006)

» Nasal Spray to Fight Obesity (December 20, 2006)

» Berkeley to Regulate Nanotech; Hippies Rejoice, Flowers Bloom (December 18, 2006)

» Diabetes, A Neurological Disorder? (December 18, 2006)

» Botulinum Neurotoxin's Deadly Grip (December 15, 2006)

» Radiation-proof RFID (December 14, 2006)

» Don't Bother Stenting Yesterday's Heart Attack (December 13, 2006)

» Ink-Jet Printing Muscle, Bone Tissues (December 12, 2006)

» Ultrastrong Carbon-Nanotube Muscles (December 11, 2006)

» Lab-on-a-Chip Does Rapid Analysis of Breast Milk (December 8, 2006)

» Treat Cystic Fibrosis with DNA Laced Spray (December 7, 2006)

» Taste test to Dx Depression? (December 5, 2006)

» Aching Back? Don't Sit Straight, Stupid! (November 29, 2006)

» How Vioxx and Other Arthritis Drugs Pose Danger (November 29, 2006)

» New Device Points Way to Artificial Kidney Implants (November 29, 2006)

» YouTube for Science (November 28, 2006)

» Welcome to Flaccid City. Population: You (November 28, 2006)

» Spleen Cells Offer Hope in Brittle Diabetes (November 27, 2006)

» Bad Memory Linked to MI Outcomes (November 27, 2006)

» Cottonseed Protein: From Farmers to Your Family Table (November 22, 2006)

» The Deceptive Smell of Metal (November 22, 2006)

» Antisense RNA Found to Regulate Gene Expression (November 22, 2006)

» Improving Blood Stem Cell Transplants via Magnetic Nanoparticles (November 21, 2006)

» Stem Cells as Progenitors of Neoplasms (November 20, 2006)

» Nanothreads to Aid Tissue Regeneration (November 20, 2006)

» And like that... in 25 femtoseconds... it's gone (November 16, 2006)

» Math Model of Collagen (November 16, 2006)

» Human Opiorphin: A Potent Analgesic Peptide (November 16, 2006)

» Vaccine for Breast Cancer (November 15, 2006)

» Vaccine for Kidney Cancer (November 15, 2006)

» iGEM 2006 Winners (November 13, 2006)

» Happy, Healthy People (November 13, 2006)

» Neurology of "Speaking in Tongues" (November 9, 2006)

» Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2007 by Cleveland Clinic (November 9, 2006)

» "Millisecond After" Brain Injury (November 9, 2006)

» How Stem Cells Do the Talking (November 7, 2006)

» PCMag: Ten Most Harmful Health Gadgets (November 7, 2006)

» Israeli Researchers Claim Novel Swimming Robot (November 7, 2006)

» Jet Lag Kills Older Mice (November 7, 2006)

» 20 Things You Didn't Know about Lab Accidents (November 6, 2006)

» 20 Things You Didn't Know About Death (November 6, 2006)

» Bringing T-Rays Under Control (November 3, 2006)

» Researchers Grow a Lung from Stem Cells (November 3, 2006)

» Cord Blood + British Scientists = New Liver (October 31, 2006)

» Multidetector Computed Tomography May Save Lives (October 31, 2006)

» Using Stem Cells For Breast Reconstruction (October 30, 2006)

» A Better (Scarless) Way to Build a Face (October 30, 2006)

» Japanese Government Fighting for Technology for the Hearing and Visually Impaired (October 30, 2006)

» Researchers Unlock the Shape of the Na/K Pump (October 26, 2006)

» Eyelash Transplants (October 25, 2006)

» Limb to Crotch: Deferred Transitory Heterotopic Implant (October 20, 2006)

» DNA Ligase at Work (October 20, 2006)

» Microfluidic Model of Blood Clotting (October 18, 2006)

» Prototype Device Enables Untrained Bystanders to Save Lives (October 18, 2006)

» Virtual Colonoscopy as Good as Actual Colonoscopy (October 18, 2006)

» For the Love of $$ (October 17, 2006)

» First Quantum Grant Designated (October 16, 2006)

» Gold Nano-Ruler Provides DNA-Protein Insights, New Ways to Make Fun of Friends (October 16, 2006)

» Natural Remedies of Arabia (October 13, 2006)

» 4 Senior Physicians Arrested for Illegal Human Experiments (October 11, 2006)

» A New Breast Cancer Risk Gene (October 9, 2006)

» "Chemo Brain" Visualized, Confirmed (October 6, 2006)

» The Archon X PRIZE for Genomics (October 5, 2006)

» Research Looks at Organisation of Cell Membranes (October 5, 2006)

» Nobel for Biochemical Mechanisms of Transcription (October 5, 2006)

» Shining a Light on Origins of DNA (October 4, 2006)

» Milestone: Fully Differentiated Cells Yield Clones (October 4, 2006)

» NYTimes on Fish Oil (October 4, 2006)

» Nobel for RNA Interference (October 3, 2006)

» New System for Texas Advanced Computing Center (October 3, 2006)

» Food as a Drug (October 3, 2006)

» Salmonella Under the Microscope of Proteomics (October 2, 2006)

» Connecting Biology and Electronics (September 29, 2006)

» Spanish H1N1 Analysed (September 28, 2006)

» Flow of Copper and the Learning Process (September 27, 2006)

» Bionics @ Wired (September 27, 2006)

» New Diabetes Treatment Possible (September 25, 2006)

» DIY Prosthetics (September 22, 2006)

» Goal: Better Drug Delivery (September 22, 2006)

» Linkage Galore (September 21, 2006)

» Cellular Sculptures and Their Uses (September 13, 2006)

» The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards (September 12, 2006)

» On Stuttering (September 12, 2006)

» Preventing Slimy Biofilms (September 11, 2006)

» Robot to Analyze Thousands of Alzheimer's Blood Samples (September 8, 2006)

» Coma Tennis (September 8, 2006)

» Sarcoma Subtype Shown to Come from Mature Muscle Cells (September 6, 2006)

» Does Carbon Monoxide Prevent Pre-eclampsia? (September 6, 2006)

» Hearing Kandinsky Through an Unconscious Synesthesia (September 6, 2006)

» Bugs Take a Bite Out of Inflammation (September 5, 2006)

» Bits and Pieces (September 1, 2006)

» It's All in the (Microbial) Family (August 30, 2006)

» "Study" Says FDA Advisors Typically Recommend Approval, Medgadget.com Disapproves of AP's Choices in Science Coverage (August 29, 2006)

» UCLA Neuroscientist to Halt Research After Animal Rights Group Harrassment (August 28, 2006)

» Parietal Neurons That Categorize Images (August 28, 2006)

» Old Remedy Investigated; Has a Future (August 25, 2006)

» On Mechanisms of Roughage (August 25, 2006)

» How to Build Trust in a Tenth of a Second (August 24, 2006)

» Flipping Off the Programmed Death Switch (August 22, 2006)

» First Phase of HIV Vaccine Trials Successful (August 21, 2006)

» Math in Tiny Heads (August 18, 2006)

» Common Brain Cells Show Stem Cell Properties; Morphed into Other Types (August 18, 2006)

» Time of Surgery and Anesthesia Risk (August 15, 2006)

» New Light Microscope with Insane Resolution (August 11, 2006)

» Hypertrophied Hearts Shy Away from Fats (August 10, 2006)

» Concerns Over Fetal Ultrasound (August 9, 2006)

» Peritoneal Perfusion for Support of Patients in Respiratory Failure (August 9, 2006)

» Positional Identity of Skin Cells (August 7, 2006)

» Anti-Obesity Vaccine Explained (August 7, 2006)

» Fibrin Fibers: Numero Uno in Stretchability (August 4, 2006)

» Why Do Steroids Cause Osteoporosis ? (August 1, 2006)

» A Window Into the Brain (August 1, 2006)

» Scorpion Venom Shows Promise for Treatment of Malignant Gliomas (July 31, 2006)

» Organic Foods Report (July 31, 2006)

» How to Tire a Heart (July 31, 2006)

» The Bandwidth of the Human Eye (July 28, 2006)

» The Earliest Cortical Neurons Identified (July 27, 2006)

» Charite Artificial Disc Generating Controversy (July 27, 2006)

» Virtual Reality:"There's Body Parts Everywhere" (July 26, 2006)

» Analog Acoustic Expression: How You Say It Matters (July 25, 2006)

» Is Carotid Stenting the New Anti-Depressant? (July 25, 2006)

» Call for Macro-Research on Nano-Dangers (July 24, 2006)

» 'LifeChips': Traning to Think Big about Little Things (July 21, 2006)

» Kosher Insulin (July 21, 2006)

» Long Distance Ultrasound (July 17, 2006)

» 3M Wins Frost and Sullivan Award (July 13, 2006)

» Bacterial Live Wires (July 11, 2006)

» Stem Cell Derived Sperm: It Works! (July 10, 2006)

» Quantum Effect to Power Artificial Muscles? (July 7, 2006)

» GE Healthcare Sets Up Shop in Bangalore (June 30, 2006)

» FDA to Modernize Clinical Trials and Bioresearch Monitoring (June 29, 2006)

» Boston Scientific Issues Recall on Some Cardiac Devices; Competitors: "Haw Haw!" (June 28, 2006)

» Orthopedics Industry to Receive Thorough Antitrust Probing (June 28, 2006)

» NASA Joins the Diabetes Fight (June 27, 2006)

» Taking a Close Look at Hep B (June 26, 2006)

» The Largest DNA Database to Be Launched (June 21, 2006)

» Why Does a Coroner Need Lubricating Jelly? (June 21, 2006)

» Breeding Controversy Through Human-Animal Hybridization (June 20, 2006)

» Uaser: An Ultrasonic Laser (June 19, 2006)

» Novel Nanomaterial for Diagnostic Devices (June 19, 2006)

» Study Shows Device Doesn't Improve CPR Survival (June 16, 2006)

» Nepal's First Chest Pacemaker (June 14, 2006)

» Raiders Helmet Saves Life (June 14, 2006)

» Shoe Induced Blisters Lead to Toxic Shock Syndrome (June 13, 2006)

» Identification of Pseudomonas Protein May Lead to New Drugs (June 12, 2006)

» Nanotech Way to Manipulate Proteins (June 12, 2006)

» A Thunderous Round Of Applause! (June 9, 2006)

» Nuns, Cows and the Cervical Cancer Vaccine (June 9, 2006)

» Cell-Death Protein and Its Role in Neurodegeneration (June 9, 2006)

» RH on Continua Health Alliance, Intel (June 7, 2006)

» Centrosomes Contain Own RNA (June 7, 2006)

» Robots Keep Sick Kids in the Classroom (June 6, 2006)

» Scientists Brew Menopause Beer (June 5, 2006)

» Bird Flu On Your Cellphone (June 2, 2006)

» Fashion vs. Mosquito (May 30, 2006)

» Happy Birthday! (May 26, 2006)

» Brain Waves Control Robot (May 26, 2006)

» Addicted to Video Games? Be A Surgeon (May 26, 2006)

» Limb Regeneration: Not Just for X-Men Anymore (May 26, 2006)

» Taiwan Hosting Medical Device Conference June 1st (May 25, 2006)

» Seeing Proteins Patrol DNA (May 24, 2006)

» Tissue Engineering Solution for Impotence (May 24, 2006)

» UCLA Researchers Take on Drunks (May 23, 2006)

» The Future of Neurotechnology Discussed (May 23, 2006)

» Standards of Excellence of the MSM (May 23, 2006)

» Market Analysis of Healthcare IT (May 22, 2006)

» Free Kicks and the Case of the Visual System (May 22, 2006)

» Understanding Protein Interactions: A Novel Approach (May 22, 2006)

» Boston Scientific to Dissolve Guidant Brand (May 18, 2006)

» Autistic Brains Don't Daydream (May 15, 2006)

» 'Brits have a screw loose when it comes to flossing' (May 15, 2006)

» Coffee with a Llama Dipstick (May 12, 2006)

» World's Smallest, Smelliest Fuel Cell (May 11, 2006)

» Endothelial Cells' Angiogenesis Mechanism Studied (May 9, 2006)

» Three-Stage Brain Operation for Intractable Seizures in Peds (May 9, 2006)

» The Neurobiology of Dread (May 8, 2006)

» Cilia on Algae Shed Light on Human Cell Communication (May 8, 2006)

» Natural Allergy-free Soybeans Isolated (May 5, 2006)

» Epstein-Barr Virus and Multiple Sclerosis: A Molecular Connection Revealed (May 4, 2006)

» JAMA Study: Older Americans Are Less Healthy Than British (May 3, 2006)

» Synthetic Biology Delivers Super Bugs (May 2, 2006)

» Artificial Compound Eye for Future Medical Scopes (April 28, 2006)

» The Mol Switch Project (April 28, 2006)

» New Mechanism on How Nature Differentiates Left from Right (April 24, 2006)

» Lactic Acid: An Underestimated Energy Source (April 24, 2006)

» Nuclear Pores and Cell Division (April 24, 2006)

» The Science of Drool (April 20, 2006)

» Did You Get Forearm Support? (April 19, 2006)

» Lung's Unique Immune System Studied (April 19, 2006)

» Poisons Get Atomic Level Exam (April 17, 2006)

» Bacterial Glue Could Become Medical Adhesive (April 13, 2006)

» NIH Offering "Medicine in the Media" Course (April 13, 2006)

» AMA from Down Under: Ban Boxing Before Next Games (April 10, 2006)

» New Test for Pernicious Anemia (April 7, 2006)

» Magic Research (April 7, 2006)

» And the Answer Is: The Egg Was First (April 5, 2006)

» Atomic Force Microscope Sees, Senses Cystic Fibrosis Physiology (April 4, 2006)

» Breakthrough: First Human Recipients of Laboratory-Grown Organs Reported (April 4, 2006)

» Medgadgets Energize Investors (April 3, 2006)

» Gum Benefits to be Studied (March 31, 2006)

» Cortex Matures Differently in More Intelligent People (March 30, 2006)

» Review Panel Shocker: Guidant's Disclosure System Needs Work (March 30, 2006)

» Guinness World Record Request: Show Your Skin! (March 29, 2006)

» Temperature-Sensitive Drug Delivery Technology (March 29, 2006)

» Bio-artificial Liver Machine (March 29, 2006)

» Top Ten from MIT's Technology Review (March 28, 2006)

» Supercomputer Maps Virtual Virus (March 27, 2006)

» When the Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard (March 24, 2006)

» Breast Asymmetry Predicts Breast CA (March 21, 2006)

» In Gut We Trust (March 21, 2006)

» The DNA Smiley (March 20, 2006)

» She Blinded Me With Science (March 15, 2006)

» Paying for Recalls (March 15, 2006)

» Cooperation and Its Breakdown (March 14, 2006)

» 100 MHz for Clinical Ultrasound (March 14, 2006)

» Evaluation of Bioabsorbable Drug Eluting Coronary Stent Underway (March 10, 2006)

» Light Scattering Technology for Early Cancer Detection (March 10, 2006)

» Targeting Huntington's, Parkinson's from a Different Angle (March 9, 2006)

» New Algorithm for Sudoku Puzzles, X-Ray Microscopy (March 7, 2006)

» Biochemistry of Caffeine on Stress Response (March 6, 2006)

» Driving While Irradiated (March 3, 2006)

» Hit List Of Dangerous Bugs (March 2, 2006)

» Stable Networks of Blood Vessels Created (March 2, 2006)

» New Clinical Symptom of Chagas Disease (March 1, 2006)

» News from Obesity Epidemic Front (March 1, 2006)

» "Virus Chip" Detects Virus in Prostate Tumors: A Possible Etiologic Link? (February 27, 2006)

» Portable Cocaine Sensor Developed (February 27, 2006)

» A Better Tool to Study Role of Iron in Neurodegeneration (February 23, 2006)

» Sweaty Socks: Some Socks Are Better than Others (February 23, 2006)

» Clinical Efficacy of EECP Questioned (February 22, 2006)

» Olympic Short Track Speedskaters Examined by Ultraportable Ultrasounds (February 17, 2006)

» Chemical Sensors, Neural Network for Human Breath Analysis (February 17, 2006)

» Drastic, Conscious Decision (February 16, 2006)

» "High Efficiency" Vacuum Cleaners: No Benefits to Allergy Sufferers (February 15, 2006)

» When Hackers Attack Hospital (February 14, 2006)

» Cardiosecurity (February 13, 2006)

» An Early Step in Dengue Infection Visualized (February 13, 2006)

» Mice Subjected to Bullying, Viruses, Antidepressants (February 13, 2006)

» Medicine's Strangest (February 10, 2006)

» Electrical Activity of Sperm Recorded (February 10, 2006)

» Lingering Babies' Cells May Be Protective for Mothers (February 9, 2006)

» The Diet Spud (February 7, 2006)

» 510(k) Decisions for January 2006 (February 7, 2006)

» Blackberry Shut Down and the Doctors/Patients That May Suffer (February 7, 2006)

» Epidermal Dendritic Cells' Precursor Identified (February 2, 2006)

» With New Software, Biologists See Virus Details (February 2, 2006)

» In the Works: A New Diagnosis! (February 1, 2006)

» All Placebos Not Created Equal (February 1, 2006)

» Stem Cells Located in Bone Marrow (January 31, 2006)

» Obesity: An Infectious Disease? (January 31, 2006)

» Mobile Phones Reduce Error Rate in Hospitals (January 31, 2006)

» A Second Look on Deja Vu (January 31, 2006)

» New Use for an Ancient Molecule? (January 27, 2006)

» HiDef 3D HIV (January 25, 2006)

» Done! (January 25, 2006)

» Synthetic Biology : Custom-Made Microbes and More (January 20, 2006)

» Series on Prosthetic Recipients to Debut on Discovery Health Channel (January 17, 2006)

» Plant-derived Vaccine to Prevent the Deadly Plague (January 17, 2006)

» Scent of a Woman (January 17, 2006)

» The Courtship of Guidant (cont.) (January 13, 2006)

» The Courtship of Guidant (January 12, 2006)

» Laser Technique Sheds Light on Microstrokes (January 11, 2006)

» Face Perception Is Modulated by Sexual Orientation (January 11, 2006)

» You Like Campari? Now We Know Why (January 10, 2006)

» Porous Liquid Thought (January 4, 2006)

» Little Known DNA Repair Enzyme May Be A Tumor Suppressor Gene (January 4, 2006)

» Video of de Grey on 60 Minutes (January 3, 2006)

» Ophthalmologists Prove Existence of CLANs (January 3, 2006)

» Bariatric Surgeries Compared (January 3, 2006)

» Researchers Discover How a High-Fat Diet Causes Type 2 Diabetes (December 29, 2005)

» Human Difficulties with Mirrors (December 29, 2005)

» No Rest for the Weary (December 28, 2005)

» Cell Scaffolding Gets a Close Look (December 28, 2005)

» Functional Plasticity in Living Brain (December 28, 2005)

» Gyroscopes to Detect Cancer (December 28, 2005)

» Riboswitches Touted as New Anti-Bacterial Targets (December 22, 2005)

» Thermal Sensitivity and Gustatory Experiences (December 22, 2005)

» Mammography: Now the Files Are Compressed, Too (December 21, 2005)

» French Defeat Blamed on Louse-Borne Infectious Diseases (December 19, 2005)

» Potential Mechanism for Tumor Growth Discovered (December 19, 2005)

» "Medical Device" Mistaken for Pipe Bomb Prompts Evacuations (December 16, 2005)

» Drug-Delivering Cells for the Brain (December 15, 2005)

» Mapping CA's DNA (December 14, 2005)

» Neurological Biosensor Developed? (December 14, 2005)

» Controlling Pain with Thoughts (December 14, 2005)

» "Cellular Bookmarks" Used by Cancer for Metastasis Pathogenesis (December 13, 2005)

» How the Neuron Sprouts Its Branches (December 12, 2005)

» Living Bacteria Used to Create Photographs (December 12, 2005)

» Visualizing Head Bangs (December 9, 2005)

» Imaginations Running Wild (December 9, 2005)

» The Doctor's Choice Awards (December 9, 2005)

» Gene Expression Profiling Shows Promise for CA Treatment (December 8, 2005)

» Novel Treatment for Pancreatic CA Opens the Door to Life-Saving Surgery (December 8, 2005)

» Super Broccoli Fights Cancer (December 8, 2005)

» Boston Scientific Butts in on Guidant Deal (December 8, 2005)

» Plumbism: The Cause of Beethoven's Illness (December 7, 2005)

» Preventing Biofilms in TB, Leprosy (December 5, 2005)

» Nanotech News from NCI (December 5, 2005)

» The Passion Molecule? (December 1, 2005)

» Nose Cells May Help The Paralysed Walk Again (December 1, 2005)

» Keep Fat In Mind (November 30, 2005)

» Placebo Effect Links Expectations to Results (November 29, 2005)

» War on Terror Meets War on Cancer (November 29, 2005)

» Biotechnology's Newest Chemical Tool (November 29, 2005)

» Pandemic News (November 29, 2005)

» Cranberry Juice: Not Just For UTI's Anymore (November 28, 2005)

» Psychological Stress Visualized (November 28, 2005)

» David Blaine: 25% Body Weight Loss (November 28, 2005)

» New Bacterial Identification Technology Shows Promise (November 23, 2005)

» New Gene Silencing Therapy for Cervical Cancer (November 22, 2005)

» Seeing Cellular Machinery (November 17, 2005)

» PET Visualizes Functioning Immune System (November 16, 2005)

» LCD Monitors With Eye Protection (November 16, 2005)

» New Microscope Allows Scientists to Watch a Functioning Protein (November 15, 2005)

» Successful Nutritional Treatment for Cancer Reported (November 15, 2005)

» Chilling Can Cause Colds (November 15, 2005)

» Award Winning Tuberculosis Test (November 14, 2005)

» Bacteria Fighting Chewing Gum For Soldiers (November 14, 2005)

» Guidant Medical Chief to be Probed by SEC (November 11, 2005)

» F.D.A.: Condoms Reduce Risks of Pregnancy, Disease (November 11, 2005)

» Nuchal Translucency, Blood Tests Show Effectiveness of Screening for Down's in the 1st Trimester (November 11, 2005)

» Non-corrective Contact Lenses to Require Prescription (November 11, 2005)

» And Now They Attack Organic Milk! (November 10, 2005)

» Worm Research May Help Autoimmune Disorders (November 9, 2005)

» Dangerous Thoughts (November 8, 2005)

» Insight: Sleep (November 8, 2005)

» J&J and Guidant, Round II: Things Get Litigious (November 8, 2005)

» Governor's Medal For Science And Technology (November 7, 2005)

» High-Res Bacterial Ribosome Images Captured (November 7, 2005)

» The Death of the Hospital (November 7, 2005)

» Will J&J Actually Buy Guidant? (November 4, 2005)

» Color Perception Is Not in the Eye of the Beholder: It's in the Brain (October 28, 2005)

» Tiny Worms Paving Way for Better Anesthetics (October 26, 2005)

» Medtronic, St. Jude Receive DoJ Subpoenas (October 26, 2005)

» Functional MRI Reveals Women's Brain Activity During Menstrual Cycle (October 26, 2005)

» Judge Rules Against FDA in Utah Medical Case (October 25, 2005)

» Smith & Nephew Part Numbers used to ID NOLA Dead (October 25, 2005)

» Radical Approach to Cardiac Resynchronization Shows Promise (October 19, 2005)

» Just Asking (October 19, 2005)

» Novel Neuro Biomarker Identified? (October 18, 2005)

» Nature: Magnetic fields set senses tingling (October 18, 2005)

» The Healing Power of Atriums (October 17, 2005)

» Behind Closed Doors in Washington... (October 17, 2005)

» Your Pillow: A Hot Bed of Fungal Spores (October 17, 2005)

» Double Trouble: Cells With Duplicate Genomes and CA (October 17, 2005)

» Tissue Engineering in Shorter Time (October 17, 2005)

» NIH Launches Program to Improve Clinical and Translational Science (October 13, 2005)

» NIAID Awards $47 Million in New Effort to Develop Medical Countermeasures Against Radiological and Nuclear Threats (October 13, 2005)

» Cell Phones vs Hospital Equipment: Less Interference, Still Annoying (October 12, 2005)

» No Embryo Needed: Hunting for Ways Out of an Impasse (October 12, 2005)

» Gadgets All Look Alike (October 6, 2005)

» Free-Energy Theory Borne Out in Large-Scale Protein Folding (October 5, 2005)

» The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 (October 3, 2005)

» Say What? Bacterial Conversation-Stoppers (September 30, 2005)

» Yet Another Sour Turn (September 30, 2005)

» Radioactive Tracer Reveals Ischemic Memory (September 28, 2005)

» Computers Increase Detection Rate Of Breast Cancer (September 26, 2005)

» Nanowires To Detect Cancer (September 26, 2005)

» HairMax: Low Level Therapy, Indeed (September 22, 2005)

» The Glowing Green Sperm (September 22, 2005)

» Discovering the Real Baby Einsteins (September 22, 2005)

» Pharmacogenetics Still Decades Away (September 22, 2005)

» Digital Mammography Finds More Breast CA; Better for Younger Women (September 20, 2005)

» Computers Make Big Strides in Predicting Protein Structure (September 19, 2005)

» Setting Up a Trap to Capture Metastatic Cells (September 15, 2005)

» Microtubules May Be Linked to Mental Disorders (September 15, 2005)

» Frozen Ovaries Transplanted; Yield Embryos (September 15, 2005)

» Medical Device Manufacturers To Aid Healthcare Facilities Affected By Katrina (September 14, 2005)

» "Smart" drug coatings (September 13, 2005)

» Insights into Bad Science Reporting (September 12, 2005)

» Exubera Inhaled Insulin Follow Up (September 9, 2005)

» Nano-Molecule Moves 'Large' Size Objects (September 8, 2005)

» Does a Bed Count as a Medgadget? (September 8, 2005)

» One Shot Deal: A Sperm's Single Opportunity (September 7, 2005)

» Leeches Receiving Accolades (September 7, 2005)

» Sicko? (September 6, 2005)

» Study Finds Specific Brain Structures Link Asthma and Emotions (September 6, 2005)

» Toluidine Blue ID's Oral Lesions Likely to Become Cancer (September 6, 2005)

» The Rape Trap (September 2, 2005)

» 10,000 Patients and Staff Members in New Orleans Await Evacuation (September 2, 2005)

» Modified Collagen Shows Amazing New Properties (September 1, 2005)

» Katrina Relief (August 31, 2005)

» Scientists Describe New Way to Peer Inside Bacteria (August 31, 2005)

» ACS: "Coffee is number one source of antioxidants" (August 30, 2005)

» Device Industry Increasing Hiring (August 30, 2005)

» Mitochondrial Protein Vital for Immune Response (August 30, 2005)

» Microscopic Brain Imaging in the Palm of Your Hand (August 30, 2005)

» Portable Shipment Container (August 29, 2005)

» Scientists Find that Protein Controls Aging by Controlling Insulin (August 29, 2005)

» Our Favorite Medgadgets Get a Hearing (August 25, 2005)

» The Differential Effect of the Pill (August 25, 2005)

» UCL Boosts Hospital Aura (August 25, 2005)

» Mini-Me: Guts Have BrainsToo (August 24, 2005)

» To Play or Not to Play? (August 24, 2005)

» The Homemade Endoscope (August 24, 2005)

» Program Note (August 24, 2005)

» Researchers Discover a New Way for Infectious Bacteria to Enter Cells (August 22, 2005)

» Fake Blood Hope for Transfusions (August 22, 2005)

» Why the Preventive Services Task Force Refuses to Endorse Screening of Lung CA? (August 18, 2005)

» Ten Tips for Singers (August 15, 2005)

» Structure of Bacterial Microcompartments Described (August 12, 2005)

» Erotic Images, Gore Cause Temporary "Blindness" (August 12, 2005)

» Gene Chip for Rapid Detection of Neuroblastoma (August 10, 2005)

» Thought Reading with fMRI (August 9, 2005)

» Shortage of Patients for Medical Device Clinical Trials (August 8, 2005)

» Old-fashioned Head Lice Treatment Beats Chemicals (August 5, 2005)

» Wired on "Cognitive Fitness" (August 4, 2005)

» Indwelling Catheters Reminded Not to Overstay Welcome (August 1, 2005)

» Study: Echinacea Has No Effect on Colds (July 28, 2005)

» Vision: In the Blink of an Eye (July 27, 2005)

» Molecular Bone Glue Discovered (July 20, 2005)

» BREAKING NEWS: Guidant Issues Warning on 28,000 Pacemakers (July 18, 2005)

» Preferring a Taste and Recognizing It May Involve Separate Brain Areas (July 18, 2005)

» VNS for Depression (July 18, 2005)

» Male and Female Voices Affect Brain Differently (July 14, 2005)

» NYT on Musical Hallucinations (July 12, 2005)

» Retina Adapts To Seek The Unexpected, Ignore The Commonplace (July 11, 2005)

» FDA Updates Labeling for Erectile Dysfunction Drugs (July 11, 2005)

» Bacteria Take the Path of Least Resistance (July 8, 2005)

» Women Feel More Pain than Men (July 7, 2005)

» Research Shows Reduction in AIDS Risk with Circumcision (July 6, 2005)

» Cornell Study: Mental Processing Is a Continuous Process (July 5, 2005)

» Zombie Dogs, or Hypoxic Journalism? (July 5, 2005)