LA Times:
Professors and researchers had to wow tough critics -- fourth-graders from Foster and Carver elementary schools in Compton. The 200 judges (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Increasingly, bioengineers are growing nerve, heart and other tissues in labs. Recently, scientists even reported developing artificial penis tissue in rabbits. Although such research is meant to help treat patients, biomedic (Read More)
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The local campaign pressuring Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) to support health care reform accelerated on Thursday, after a group of more than 650 Yale University students, faculty and staff urged him to reconsider his threa (Read More)
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MARIETTA, Pa. — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - The District:
George Mason and Georgetown universities have signed a letter of intent to open a joint biomedical program at GMU's Prince William campus next year.
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Under optimum conditions, any adult cell can be coaxed into becoming stem-cell like, according to a team of researchers in the United States.Led by Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambrid (Read More)
BioMed Central - Latest articles:
The public sectors of developing countries require strengthened capacity in health informatics. In Peru, where formal university graduate degrees in biomedical and health informatics were lacking until recently, the AMAUTA Gl (Read More)
BioMed Central - Latest articles:
Background:The ChIP-chip technology has been used in a wide range of biomedical studies, such as identification of human transcription factor binding sites, investigation of DNA methylation, and investigation of histone modif (Read More)
Pune-Cities-The Times of India:
The failure of the tuberculosis (TB) control programme in India stems from the failure to interpret biomedical factors in the light of social inequalities. (Read More)
BioMed Central - Latest articles:
Background:Slowness of movement is a factor that may cause a decrease of quality of daily life. Mobility in the elderly and people with movement impairments may be improved by increasing the quickness of fundamental locomotor (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation.Several bedrock assumptions in modern computing are crumbling. Individual processor cores no longer double in speed every two year (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Friday factoids time: The U.S. biomedical and pharmaceutical industry invests between 10-20 percent of revenues in R&D and new product development, spending $58.8b on R&D in 2007. The U.S. government adds an additional $30 b (Read More)
Pune-Cities-The Times of India:
An exciting development in nanotechnology in the biomedical field is the use of fungal extracts in nanoparticle synthesis, wherein large concentrations of gold and magnetite nanoparticles have been obtained. (Read More)
BioMed Central - Latest articles:
Background:The breadth of biological databases and their information content continues to increase exponentially. Unfortunately, our ability to query such sources is still often suboptimal. Here, we introduce and apply commun (Read More)
A Blog Around The Clock:
Crossing the Line? Biomedical Technology in SportsTuesday, October 20, 20096:30-8:30 pm with discussion beginning at 7:00 followed by Q&ALocation: Tir Na Nog 218 South Blount Street, Raleigh, 833-7795In the end, it was a spl (Read More)
L.A. Times - Science:
The president tours a Maryland cancer lab to underscore the biomedical research grants, which are funded under the federal economic stimulus program. (Read More)