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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Cassandra Willyard |
A Faster Knockout With a virus, a needle, and an ultrasound machine, researchers have drastically cut the time it takes to disable a gene in mice. |
Wired August 2003 Jennifer Kahn |
The End of Cancer (As we Know it) Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine. |
Chemistry World February 12, 2014 Manisha Lalloo |
Synthetic strategy targets 'undruggable' small RNAs Chemists in the US have found a way to predict small molecules that can target short pieces of RNA involved in some diseases, such as cancer. |
Bio-IT World February 18, 2004 |
Pathology Goes Molecular New technologies are enabling clinical diagnostic laboratories to pave the way toward more personalized cancer therapies |
Bio-IT World September 11, 2003 Kevin Davies |
Chipping Away at Cancer In Vivo, In Situ Two studies probe new applications of DNA microarrays, revealing new insights into the pathogenesis and pharmacogenomics of cancer. |
Managed Care August 2007 Thomas Morrow |
Gene Expression Microarray Improves Prediction of Breast Cancer Outcomes Flash-frozen samples of surgically removed breast cancer tissue are the key to measuring a patient's risk of metastasis. |
The Motley Fool December 17, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
Innovations and Opportunities The latest scientific news is about fighting aging, heart disease, and cancer. |
Chemistry World June 9, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Artificial virus silences genes Scientists in Korea have created an artificial virus that can target the nucleus of cancer cells and knock out specific genes. |
Salon.com May 1, 2000 Arthur Allen |
Listening to DNA The genome project is getting the buzz. But the real breakthroughs may come from labs out of the limelight, like Gene Logic. |
Managed Care November 2003 Thomas Morrow |
Making Sense of Antisense and Interference Treatments that interfere with protein synthesis at the cellular level will soon be debated in medical policy committee meetings. |
Popular Mechanics November 27, 2007 Alex Hutchinson |
Stem Cells 2.0: Beyond the Hype, Engineers Look to Build Fast Engineers play the important role of making lab bench discoveries reproducible and efficient for use in industry. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Sarah C.P. Williams |
The Twists and Turns of Immunity Fred Alt has built a career making sense of the immune system -- specifically, the diverse antibodies that fight off invading molecules, from viruses to cancer cells to pollen. |
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Cellular Search Engine Craig Mello's lab has now uncovered the reason piRNA molecules are so ubiquitous and exist in so many forms in C. elegans: so they can pair with essentially any genetic sequence they encounter during their endless scanning. |
Scientific American January 2009 Charles Q. Choi |
Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Richard Saltus |
Three-Dimensional Cell Cultures Thinking big but starting small, Sangeeta Bhatia is closing in on her ambitious goal: growing human livers in the lab from scratch. |
Scientific American December 2008 Tim Hornyak |
Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells? Shinya Yamanaka discovered how to revert adult cells to an embryonic state. These induced pluripotent stem cells might soon supplant their embryonic cousins in therapeutic promise |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Schoenbach et al. |
Zap Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer. The list of effects that scientists have achieved using nanoseconds-long pulses is growing rapidly, though their actual use as a medical treatment is still years away. |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Men And Skin Cancer Men are three times more likely to develop skin cancer than women. While that's not breaking news, scientists have struggled to figure out the reason why men are more susceptible, and there appears to be a breakthrough. |
Chemistry World July 17, 2012 Simon Perks |
Synthetic nanozymes silence hepatitis C Researchers at the University of Florida, US, have discovered that an artificial nanoparticle complex, known as a nanozyme, can help to treat viral infections by 'shutting off' their genetic material. |
Fast Company November 2009 David H. Freedman |
The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens. |
AskMen.com Sabrina Rogers |
Can Men Get Breat Cancer? Breast cancer isn't just a chick thing. Although it is about 100 times more common among women and is a rare cause of death in men, the American Cancer Society estimates that, in 2004, approximately 1,450 American men will be diagnosed with this disease. |
Bio-IT World April 15, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Beyond the Blueprint How will the wealth of data emanating from the human genome and allied technologies impact research on health and disease? |
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
DNA Bot Targets Cancer Researchers from Israel have constructed a molecular-size computer that is programmed to find signs of cancer cells, and when they are present, dispense DNA molecules designed to eradicate those cells. |
Bio-IT World August 13, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Targeting Tumors Next-generation cancer drugs will take aim with unprecedented certainty, but making them requires a new discovery and development paradigm. |
Chemistry World January 25, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Stabilising RNAs enhances gene silencing in tumours South Korean scientists have found a way to stabilise therapeutic RNA molecules, using chemical modifications, so that they can be more smoothly trafficked into cells. |
Chemistry World April 28, 2008 Victoria Gill |
Gene silencing gets fat A team of researchers in the US has developed fat-like nanoparticles that can carry fragments of RNA into cells, bring treatments based on gene silencing a step closer. |
Chemistry World April 2010 |
Column: The crucible We are getting better at manipulating cells to grow into the tissues we need. Chemical factors are key, says Philip Ball |
Chemistry World April 20, 2009 James Urquhart |
New method reveals small molecule-RNA conjugates US scientists using novel chemical screening methods have discovered a new class of small molecules connected to RNA, suggesting that cellular RNA may be more chemically diverse than previously thought. |
Chemistry World January 20, 2011 Hayley Birch |
Programmable RNA promising for bio-compatible therapies Programmable nanostructures based on ribonucleic acid could be used as vessels for shipping therapeutic molecules into cells, according to US scientists. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Young Again Niche cells can reverse the aging of stem cells. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Robert Tjian |
Biomolecular Crowdsourcing A generation of web-savvy entrepreneurs has found a relatively cheap and effective approach to solving complex problems and soliciting ideas: toss out a challenge into a vibrant digital community and watch what happens. |
Scientific American June 2005 JR Minkel |
RNA to the Rescue The spectacular discovery that a species of plant can summon up genes its parents have lost highlights biologists' increasing recognition of RNA as a more versatile and important molecule in its own right. |
The Motley Fool November 28, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Stem Your Expectations of Stem-Cell Discoveries Making "stem" cells out of skin cells isn't all it's cracked up to be. The recent discovery has a long way to go before it can catch up to the research currently being done with stem cells. |
Scientific American March 2009 Elaine Schattner |
A Chip against Cancer: Microfluidics Scrutinizes T Cells With just a blood sample, a device could determine whether cancer is about to spread or monitor the progress of treatment |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Mitzi Baker |
When Worlds Collide The right time and place led to a new RNAi-like pathway in bacteria for biochemist Jennifer Doudna and geobiologist Jill Banfield. |
AskMen.com Jacob Franek |
New Cancer Therapies As cancer research explodes, the availability of new and innovative interventions is expanding almost daily. |
Reason October 2001 Ronald Bailey |
Blastocyst Brouhaha Which human cells count as people? |
Chemistry World December 20, 2010 Jennifer Newton |
Frozen assets in biobanks Scientists from Sweden have devised a technique that extracts both DNA and RNA from frozen tissue in a bid to improve large-scale extractions from samples stored in biobanks, which could aid cancer research. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Fruit Fly Cells Don't All Know What Sex They Are HHMI scientists have now found that many cells in male and female fruit flies not only look the same, they are more identical at a molecular level than was previously thought. |
Chemistry World November 27, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
A Flare for Gene Silencing US scientists have developed nanoparticle probes coated with DNA that release fluorescent 'flares' when they silence genes inside cells. |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Lucks & Arkin |
Synthetic Biology's Hunt for the Genetic Transistor How genetic circuits will unlock the true potential of bioengineering |
Technology Research News June 16, 2004 |
Genes Automate DNA Machines Researchers have taken a step toward automating nanomachines with a method that allows instructions for a DNA-based machine to be contained in a gene, or another stretch of DNA. |
Chemistry World June 7, 2007 Jessica Ebert |
Sensitive Sequencing Technique for Early Diagnosis A new technique, with sensitivity unmatched by current technologies, can detect changes in gene transcription that occur during the course of a disease, report US researchers. |
Chemistry World August 21, 2008 Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Skin cancer's unique smell mapped US researchers mapping the volatile chemicals emitted from skin cancers have found that the levels of just two compounds could differentiate diseased from healthy tissue. |
Chemistry World March 21, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
AstraZeneca partners with Moderna for $240 million Moderna has developed a way to use messenger RNA (mRNA), the molecule cells use to turn DNA into proteins, to stimulate the production of specific proteins in cells where disease has diminished or eliminated their ability to do so. |
Chemistry World September 24, 2015 Andy Extance |
Cosmetics deals push skin 3D bioprinting 3D bioprinting's allure has attracted interest from the skincare industry, with three leading firms each launching skin printing initiatives in mid-2015 that they hope will revolutionize cosmetic testing. |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Take Your Medicine; Earn Your Profits Personalized medicine offers investment ideas. Let's take a look at what this new catchphrase in the medical community actually means, and how investors can benefit from it. |
American Family Physician September 1, 2006 |
Melanoma: A Type of Skin Cancer Melanoma is a type of skin cancer. Most other skin cancers don't spread, but melanoma can spread through the whole body. If it is found early, it can be cured. |