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MERS and SARS: Two Deadly but Different Cousins 23 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
About a year ago, an outbreak of new and deadly respiratory virus outbreak occured in the Middle East. The virus closely resembled another one that caused an outbreak about 10 years ago in China--the ...
Vandalism of Golden Rice GMO Trials 20 Aug 2013 | 10:42 pm
Two weeks ago anti-GMO activists destroyed a field of genetically-modified (GM) Golden Rice being grown as a trial by the Philippines Department of Agriculture. The site was one of five involved in a ...
NIH SBIR/STTR Grants: Seed Funding for Biotech Development 7 Aug 2013 | 09:05 am
You may have a great idea for a new diagnostic, drug, or technology but developing, testing, and commercializing it takes money. One very viable source for a biotech start-ups in the US are SBIR and S...
Booming Biotech 29 Jul 2013 | 07:07 pm
Last year saw the biotech market recover much of its pre-2008 momentum. Many of the sector's stocks soared above pre-crash levels and more venture capital was freed up to fund start-ups and expansions...
At the Intersection of Biotech, Hi Tech, and Fashion 27 Jul 2013 | 10:53 pm
I got a new toy a few weeks ago--a Fitbit Flex. To call it a pedometer would almost be like calling an iPhone a telegraph. However, the function is essentially the same. It is a small electronic unit ...
FTO Gene Causes People to Want to Eat More 17 Jul 2013 | 10:10 am
In 2007, researchers using gene association studies linked a gene to obesity. Basically, they found that fat people had a specific version of a gene much more often than the general population. The ge...
Maternal Antibodies May Cause Autism 16 Jul 2013 | 03:59 am
The discredited idea that childhood vaccinations can cause autism remains in popular circulation. Part of the reason for the persistence of this completely invalidated hypothesis may be because real e...
DNA Sequencing Helps Improve IVF Success 10 Jul 2013 | 06:30 pm
One of the continuing challenges with in vitro fertilization (IVF) has to do with the poor viability of embryos produced when eggs are fertilized in culture plates. Only about 30% of IVF embryos go on...
Researchers Grow Human Liver in Mice 10 Jul 2013 | 10:19 am
As a follow up to a recent article I posted about progress researchers have been making in growing human organs in the lab, a group in Japan just reported growing functional human livers in mice. The...
Replacing Organs without Organ Donors 2 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
The recent plight of cystic fibrosis sufferer 10-year Sarah Murnagham created somewhat of a controversy about organ donation. She required hospitalization due to her failing lungs, and it wasn't clear...
