Biomedicine

: Making an Old Brain Young; By Emily Singer
Monday, December 01, 2008; Scientists are developing new ways to manipulate the brain's normal plasticity.

: Improving Prenatal Testing; By Rachel Kremen
Monday, December 01, 2008; A DNA chip could make it easier to diagnose rare conditions while the patient is still in utero.

: How Cells Age; By Jocelyn Rice
Wednesday, November 26, 2008; Parallels between mice and yeast uncover a potentially universal aging mechanism.

: Internal External Defibrillator; By Duncan Graham-Rowe
Wednesday, November 26, 2008; A new device may offer a safer way to jump-start ailing hearts.

Biomedicine Blogs

An Appetite Suppressant in Time for Turkey Day: By Brittany Sauser | 11/26/2008 | 4 Comments
The Future of Health Care: By Brittany Sauser | 11/20/2008 | 0 Comments
How to Grow New Eyes: By Emily Singer | 11/19/2008 | 0 Comments
The Latest Brain Research: By Emily Singer | 11/18/2008 | 0 Comments
New Treatments for Brain Injury: By Emily Singer | 11/17/2008 | 1 Comments
Cooling the Brain: By Emily Singer | 11/12/2008 | 3 Comments
Bone-Marrow Transplant Appears to Halt HIV: By Emily Singer | 11/10/2008 | 4 Comments
Cancer Genome Sequenced: By Emily Singer | 11/05/2008 | 0 Comments
Bring On the Frozen Mammoths: By Emily Singer | 11/04/2008 | 0 Comments
A Fast, Programmable Molecular Clock: By Emily Singer | 10/29/2008 | 1 Comments

News from Around the Web

The ACTN3 sports gene test: what can it really tell you?: 11/30/2008 | via scienceblogs.com; Disclaimer: I was one of the authors on the first study to report a link between ACTN3 and athletic performance, but I have no financial ...

Turkey Genome to Be Sequenced: 11/26/2008 | via livescience.com; During this Thanksgiving season, hungry diners won't be the only ones turning their attention to the tasty birds. Scientists plan to use the latest technology ...

Thomson stem-cell companies consolidate: 11/25/2008 | via blogs.nature.com; Three University of Wisconsin companies founded by ES-cell rock star James Thomson are joining up, according to an article from the Associated Press. The new ...

Human Tissue Startup 'Putting the Band Together Again': 11/24/2008 | via xconomy.com; San Diego's Advanced Tissue Sciences tried for 14 years to develop living-tissue patches for healing burns, wounds and chronic sores. But the business went into ...

Tracing a crime suspect through a relative: 11/24/2008 | via latimes.com; California's familial searching policy, the most extensive in the nation, looks for genetic ties between culprits and kin. Privacy advocates and legal experts are nervous. ...

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Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki
November/December 2008
Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey, founders of the personal-genomics company 23andMe, talk about their goals for the company and the drive to personalize medicine.
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