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• Lab-on-a-Chip Made of Paper

  By taking advantage of the natural movement of liquid through paper, researchers at Harvard's Whitesides Research Group may have found a way to make microfluidics technology much cheaper. The result could be disposable diagnostic tests simple and Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:18 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Medicine, Biotech, Molecular machines, Medical diagnostics

• Two women scientists share top U.S. medical prize

  WASHINGTON, May 2 (Xinhua) -- America's top award in medicine, Albany Medical Center Prize, went Friday for the first time to two women scientists. Elizabeth Blackburn of University of California, San Franciscoand and Joan Steitz of Yale University Read More...
  Posted Saturday, May 03, 2008 9:25 PM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Medicine

• Business Is Personal for United Therapeutics' Drug Entrepreneur

  SILVER SPRING, Md. — Martine Rothblatt founded Sirius Satellite Radio from a desire to link people together. She founded United Therapeutics (Nasdaq: UTHR ), which has a research and development facility in Research Triangle Park, N.C., from a desperation Read More...
  Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 5:24 AM by clementlawyer / 1 Comments

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• To Treat the Dead

  Standard emergency-room procedure has it backward, says Dr. Lance Becker, director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Resuscitation Science: blood-starved heart muscle is suddenly flooded with oxygen, precisely the situation that leads to c... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:15 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

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• 2006: The year in biology and medicine

  Lab-grown bladders, face transplants, wider genetic screening of embryos, and ethical stem cells, are some of this year's highlights.... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 2:20 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Medicine, Biology

• Looking at the Aging Immune System

  Researchers have made progress in recent years in identifying and understanding the mechanisms of decay and inefficiency in the aging immune system . Here, 50connect.co.uk looks at other threads in this work: "the most abundant form of white blood cells , Read more
  Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 9:01 AM from Longevity Meme News and Commentary / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Medicine, Biotech, Immune system