Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology 
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Fragments of RNA that cells eject in fatty droplets may point the way to a new era of cancer diagnosis, potentially eliminating the need for invasive tests in certain cases. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 30, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Health,Mind & Brain,Technology,Medical Technology,Neurological Disorders,Neuroscience,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology,More Science Source Type: news
App d to Fail: Mobile Health Treatments Fall Short in First Full Checkup
Health care via mobile technology is still in its infancy. Of 75 trials in which patients used mobile tech, such as text messaging and downloadable apps, to manage a disease or adopt healthier behaviors, only three showed reliable signs of success, according to a systematic survey . In an accompanying survey of medical personnel who used smart phones and other devices, to help deliver care, the same team found more success: 11 of 42 trials had positive, reliable results. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 29, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Technology,Computing,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Communications,Health,Society & Policy Source Type: news
New Synthetic Polymer Is First to Match Rigidity of DNA or Collagen
Take one kilogram of polyisocyanide polymer. Sprinkle liberally across an Olympic swimming pool. Warm gently. Within minutes, your jelly is ready. Serves 25 million. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 24, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Health,Biotechnology,More Science,Biotechnology,Biology,Technology Source Type: news
Fetal Genome Screening Could Prove Tragic
In a few years you will be able to order a transcript of your entire genetic code for less than $1,000. Adults cannot do much to alter their biological lot, but what if parents could examine their unborn child's genome? Without proper guidance, they might decide to take drastic measures--even to end the pregnancy--based on a misguided reading of the genetic tea leaves. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 18, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: More Science,Health,Society & Policy,Everyday Science,Medical Technology,More Science,Biotechnology,Ethics,Biology Source Type: news
A Dangerous Game: Some Athletes Risk Untested Stem Cell Treatments
In 2005, at the age of 32, then Los Angeles Angel Bartolo Colón won the American League Cy Young Award for best pitcher, one of professional baseball's top honors. He stumbled through subsequent seasons, however, after a series of rips and strains in the tendons and ligaments of his throwing arm, shoulder and back. In 2009 he all but quit baseball. Desperate to reclaim his career, Colón flew home to the Dominican Republic in 2010 for an experimental procedure not vetted or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Doctors centrifuged samples of Colón's bone marrow and fat, skimmed off ...
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 16, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Health,Society & Policy,Medical Technology,More Science,Biotechnology,Ethics,Biology,Everyday Science Source Type: news
Researchers Build New Bridges for Nerve Injury
In the January 2013 issue of Scientific American , D. Kacy Cullen and Douglas H. Smith of the University of Pennsylvania reported on their work using stretch-grown axons (the long thin "arm" of a nerve cell) to some day connect prosthetic devices to the peripheral nervous systems of people who had to have part of their arm amputated. There wasn't enough room to talk about it in the article, but there is another way that these "living bridges" could be used to help people with devastating injuries. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 14, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Health,Mind & Brain,Technology,Medical Technology,More Science,Neuroscience,Thought Cognition,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology,Everyday Science Source Type: news
How Artificial Arms Could Connect to the Nervous System (preview)
In one of the most iconic scenes in science-fiction films, Luke Skywalker casually examines his new synthetic forearm and hand. The Star Wars hero is able to move the fingers by extending and contracting pistons shown through an open flap along the wrist. Then he senses the robotic surgeon's pinprick of one of the fingers. Not only can the prosthesis be moved with Skywalker's thoughts, it feels to him like his own hand. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 14, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Health,Mind & Brain,Technology,Medical Technology,More Science,Neuroscience,Thought Cognition,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology,Everyday Science Source Type: news
Safety of Induced Stem Cells Gets a Boost
A paper published in Nature today could dispel a cloud over the hopes of turning a patient’s own cells into perfectly matched replacement tissues. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 10, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Health,Ethics,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology,More Science Source Type: news
Supreme Court Ensures Funding of Research Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells
The US Supreme Court today ended an effort to shut down government support of human embryonic stem cell research, refusing to hear a case that challenged the legality of funding for the work by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 8, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: More Science,Health,Society & Policy,More Science,Pharmaceuticals,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Ethics,Biology Source Type: news
Gene Therapies Will Cure Many a Disease (preview)
The Science Of The Next 150 Years: 50 Years in the Future [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 6, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: Health,Everyday Science,Medical Technology,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Infectious Diseases,Health,More Science Source Type: news
U.S. Fiscal Deal Leaves Science Vulnerable
Law-makers in Washington DC greeted the new year with a frantic deal meant to avert a fiscal crisis. But the bill that passed the Senate and the House in pre-dawn votes on 1 and 2 January keeps researchers on tenterhooks for at least another two months by delaying mandatory spending cuts that could threaten science funding. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 3, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: More Science,Chemistry,Health,Physics,Biotechnology,More Science,Biotechnology,Biology,Society & Policy Source Type: news
New Year, New Science
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Source: Scientific American Topic - Biotechnology - January 2, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Tags: More Science,Energy Technology,Environment,Health,Mind & Brain,Physics,Society Policy,More Science,Energy Sustainability,Climate,Psychiatry,Psychology,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Ethics,Pharmaceuticals,Energy Technology,Biology,Chemistry Source Type: news
