As part of the precision medicine initiative at the Cancer Institute of New jersey, investigators--which include colleagues from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical school and RUCDR Infinite Biologics, the world's largest university-based biorepository,
standard of care laboratory testing for breast cancer,"says lead author Kim M. Hirshfield, MD, Phd, breast medical oncologist at the Cancer Institute and assistant professor of medicine at Rutgers
the opportunity exists to provide tailored therapies for patients,"notes Lorna Rodriguez, MD, Phd, director of the precision medicine initiative at the Cancer Institute and professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences
and associate professor of medicine and pharmacology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical school l
#Natural reparative capacity of teeth elucidated These results are published in the journal Stem Cells. The tooth is a mineralised organ, implanted in the mouth by a root.
The results reveal serious obstacles to using the method in medical applications. The scientists have tried to head off ethical concerns by using'nonviable'embryos,
Other key collaborators on this study were Emanuela Ricciotti, Garret A. Fitzgerald and Tilo Grosser of the pharmacology department and the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the Perelman School of medicine, University of Pennsylvania;
"said senior author Dr. David Lyden, the Stavros S. Niarchos Professor in Pediatric Cardiology and a professor of pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College."
who also has appointments in the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center and the Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children's Health at Weill Cornell Medical College."
"said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at Rice's Baker Institute, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine."
Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, at Temple University, Philadelphia a
"Traditional drugs--from cold medicine to chemotherapy--are composed of small molecules of a few dozen atoms, typically.
These packages of medicine will be ignored by the patient's immune system, which works against unknown proteins as well as many synthetic delivery vehicles s
a professor of medical pharmacology and physiology at the MU School of medicine and lead author of the study."
and Stephen I. Ryu, now a consulting professor of electrical engineering at Stanford and a neurosurgeon at the Palo alto Medical Foundation.
X-ray computer tomography (CT) has become an important diagnostic tool in medicine. Conventional CT SCANS are very detailed
"Besides medical applications, multimodal tomography could also open up new possibilities in materials science, for instance, in studies of extremely durable and lightweight carbon fibers and other fibrous materials,
May 6, in the journal Science Translational Medicine.""This research is addressing neglected tropical diseases, "said Fletcher."
#Smarter, cheaper technologies offer improved point-of-care medicine A team from Stanford university School of medicine (Bio-Acoustic MEMS in Medicine Labs) developed assays for the simple and rapid detection
of the Demirici Bio-Acoustic-MEMS in Medicine Laboratory at Stanford School of medicine,"is to simplify the techniques that both capture the biotarget
and Tropical Medicine, could lead to a treatment to reduce the spread of malaria within a population.
#Super-small needle technology for the brain However, one challenge is reducing the tissue/neuron damage associated with needle penetration, particularly for chronic insert experiment and future medical applications.
I think this technology definitely has the potential to be transformative in medicine
#Mechanism of epidemic bacterial disease identified Through identification of increased toxin production by epidemic forms of group A streptococcus (the"flesh-eating"bacterium),
"These findings now give us the opportunity to begin to develop new translational medicine tools
Arraytheir medical diagnostics device is designed to harness centrifugal force--akin to the circular swing of A chair-o-Plane"carnival ride
so the team's device shows great potential for improving the future of medical diagnostics.
and Joseph Wu, MD, Phd, professor of cardiovascular medicine and of radiology, teamed up with a group of genome-sequencing specialists to develop the new technique:
"The development of the new test is an example of Stanford Medicine's focus on precision health,
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered for the first time the mechanism by which state-dependent learning renders stressful fear-related memories consciously inaccessible."
but hopefully it will lead to medical applications. This gives us new opportunities to look at cell structures,
and shared the 2013 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Thomas C. Südhof, a professor at the Stanford School of medicine and Howard hughes medical institute investigator who shared that 2013 Nobel prize with Rothman,
"said the trial's co-primary investigator, Sheri D. Weiser, MD, MPH, UCSF associate professor of medicine at the UCSF Division of HIV, Infectious diseases and Global Medicine at San francisco General
Dr. Lewis is an interventional cardiologist and a professor in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Tuchek said the unique design of the Corevalve Evolut R System llows for superior control during deployment of the Corevalve,
which was published in the New england Journal of Medicine. The study found that patients who received the device had significantly lower mortality than heart valve patients who underwent open-heart surgery.
and Dr Kaddour Bouazza-Marouf, Reader in Mechatronics in Medicine, said the device learns from its user,
have widespread implications for a broad range of industrial, scientific and medical applications in which enzymes are used."
was awarded the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for this work in 1997. Prion researchers have suggested
They presented their findings Aug 26 at the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Milan, Italy.
The research will be published by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the world's largest society of biomedical engineers."
"Neurorecovery Technologies, a medical technology company Edgerton founded, designs and develops devices that help restore movement in patients with paralysis. The company provided the device used to stimulate the spinal cord in combination with the Ekso in this research.
Targeting pathogens and parasites with medicines like antibiotics, or dealing with the conditions that allow transmission.
Phosphonates are an abundant and diverse class of natural signaling molecules that have already proved useful to medicine and agriculture
or inspiration for, nearly two-thirds of all human medicines, yet research in this area has dwindled in recent years due to, among other reasons, high costs and increasing rates of rediscovery,
and developed into medicines that target a protein in the human body that is responsible for chemotherapy resistance in cancers,
and developed into medicines that target a protein in the human body that is responsible for chemotherapy resistance in cancers,
The discovery, published in Medicinal Chemistry Communications, shows that the potential new antibiotics are unlike contemporary antibiotics
an Associate professor of Medicine at Mcgill University, says by way of explaining the importance of the discovery."
''says lead author Dr. Simon Wing, MUHC endocrinologist and professor of Medicine at Mcgill University."
"says James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT's Department of Biological engineering and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES)."
It will require much more effort to accomplish the second goal--packing tiny quantities of medicines into the smart particles,
"Targeted drug delivery is one of the ultimate goals of medicine because it seeks to focus remedies on diseased cells,
to carry a significant medical payload. But in practice this had proven so difficult that when Swartz floated the idea to funding agencies they said no.
on the other hand, they wanted the capsid to deliver medicines to a sick cell, they would hang address tags on the spikes.
After that he will add the next function--further engineering the DNA code to make sure that the protein can self-assemble around a small medicinal payload."
biotechnology and medical treatments.""The very simple design rules that we have discovered provide a powerful engineering tool for many biomedical
an associate professor in the UF College of Medicine's department of anatomy and cell biology. Finding new treatments is critical
which medical experts and researches have attributed to better diagnostic imaging, an aging population and heightened awareness of the disease stemming from the 2011 death of Apple Inc. cofounder Steve jobs. Zajac-Kaye's group discovered that a single protein is behind the process that allows pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors to thrive.
this novel device is very suitable for applications such as soft robotics, wearable consumer electronics, smart medical prosthetic devices,
and of medicine at UCSF and a co-corresponding author on the new study.""But practically speaking,
--which a consortium of researchers at UCSF are applying to diverse biological and clinical questions--could have a major impact on the emerging field of precision medicine."
but efforts to harness them for medical use have been hampered because isolating useful phages from soil
and the inaugural director of the Joint Center for Cancer Precision Medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
The findings are published simultaneously with the ECC2015 presentation in the New england Journal of Medicine. 2 Prof Choueiri
who is Associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school and Clinical Director and Kidney Cancer Center Director at The Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
They hope to work with medical technology companies to commercialise their invention to benefit patients soon n
and development of new medicines by greatly accelerating the computer-aided design of pharmaceutical compounds (and minimizing lengthy trial and error testing);
Medical researchers have developed now a highly effective in vitro technique for producing light sensitive retina cells from human embryonic stem cells.
The authors see numerous applications for terahertz accelerators, in materials science, medicine and particle physics, as well as in building X-ray lasers.
as well as medical applications using X-rays and electron radiation.""The rapid advances we are seeing in terahertz generation with optical methods will enable the future development of terahertz accelerators for these applications,
The study, published in the journal European Urology Focus, was conducted in collaboration with Dr Rosa M. Rabanal of the Murine and Comparative Pathology Unit, Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, UAB,
whether an individual cancer patient will benefit from a specific type of medicine. This is a very effective method,
Penn Medicine has the one of the largest referral clinics for treatment of SS patients in the country.
These results highlight the genetic vulnerabilities that we can use in designing precision medicine therapies."
The next stage of the team's work involves working with medical researchers to test the new technology on animals.
Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine. While current HIV treatments involve pills that are taken daily, the new regimens'long-lasting effects suggest that HIV treatment could be administered perhaps once or twice per year.
#Sound waves levitate cells to detect stiffness changes that could signal disease Utah Valley University physicists are literally applying rocket science to the field of medical diagnostics.
The medical technology company is also the manufacturer of the Dentaplas three-layer coating system.
This same type of approach potentially also could be used to make other currently plant-based medicines for fighting cancer
it may provide an alternative supply for these essential medicines and allow greater access for most of the global population that currently has insufficient access to pain medication,
While medical therapy is usually the first line of treatment, a new minimally invasive implant can dramatically reduce symptoms for men. his is a safe procedure for men with BPH to improve urination
#New treatment options for colon cancer Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Sweden Karolinska Institutet, one of Europe largest and most prestigious medical universities, have discovered that an existing
the senior author of the new study, Trever Bivona, MD, Phd, assistant professor of medicine and member of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC).
a professor of medicine and cellular biology at Northwestern University who was not part of the research team.
Reported online in Nature Medicine, these novel findings suggest a promising new way to fight cancerarticularly cancers that are aggressive
HMS professor of medicine and director of translational therapeutics in the Cancer Research Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess. in1 is a common key regulator in many types of cancer
In this new work, co-senior author Xiao Zhen Zhou, HMS assistant professor of medicine and an investigator in the Division of Translational Therapeutics at Beth Israel Deaconess, decided to take a different
added co-author Pier Paolo Pandolfi, the HMS George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine and director of the Cancer Genetics Program at Beth Israel Deaconess,
such as targeting medicines more specifically into cancer cells and driving charge separation potentially for harvesting energy for batteries.
and medicine. e envision that this protein can create an electrochemical gradient using things like ph,
either medicine affecting the protein and its function thereby inhibiting the proliferation of the cancer cells and their survival,
of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF. The finding was published online on March 16
2015 in Nature Medicine. All mammals, including humans, have two types of fat with completely opposite functions:
That medical mystery is just one of the questions that Ruth Montgomery, associate professor of medicine at Yale School of medicine, seeks to explore with the use of a transformational tool for translational research.
It called Cytof, which stands for cytometry by time-of-flight, and it gives researchers greater insight into the intricacies of immune cells than ever before.
Published today in Science Translational Medicine journal, University researchers, working in collaboration with scientists at King College London
Indeed, Lehmann, who also serves as director of NYU Langone Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and chair of its Department of Cell biology,
Bishop is now cofounder and chief innovation officer of Qualaris Healthcare Solutions, a Pittsburgh-based medical-product development company.
Earlier this year, Advanced Tear Diagnostics, a medical-products company based in Birmingham, Alabama, licensed the same technology to improve
monitoring and treatment of a wide range of medical conditions, said Yash Vaishnav, Azte vice president of business development for life sciences. ekcapital is also a great partner.
Professor Takeshi Iwatsubo, graduate students Kaoru Yamamoto and Zen-ichi Tanei, Assistant professor Tadafumi Hashimoto and Professor Haruhiko Bito at the University of Tokyo Graduate school of Medicine, Professor
May 6) in the journal Science Translational Medicine. his research is addressing neglected tropical diseases, said Fletcher. t demonstrates
The results of the study were published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Surgery, associated with cardiovascular diseases, such as ischemia,
they actively release medicine into the blood. The lifetime of such grafts is determined often by the amount of drug stored within the graft
including gene-based medicine, from reaching their target. His team experiments with human airway mucus and small animals,
Motoharu Sakaue together with Maya Sieber-Blum, Professor of Stem Cell Sciences at the Institute of Genetic Medicine in Newcastle, investigated the possibility of making Schwann cells,
but I think this technology definitely has the potential to be transformative in medicine. h
of which took less than five days to convert sugar into one of two medicinal compounds: either thebaine,
this could broaden access to many plant-based medicines. For thousands of years, people have used yeast to ferment wine,
Now researchers at Stanford have engineered genetically yeast to make painkilling medicines, a breakthrough that heralds a faster and potentially less expensive way to produce many different types of plant-based medicines.
Writing today in Science, the Stanford engineers describe how they reprogrammed the genetic machinery of baker yeast
It can take more than a year to produce a batch of medicine, starting from the farms in Australia,
and refined into medicines. hen we started work a decade ago, many experts thought it would be impossible to engineer yeast to replace the entire farm-to-factory process,
400 gallons of bioengineered yeast to produce a single dose of pain relief the experiment proves that bioengineered yeast can make complex plant-based medicines. his is only the beginning,
infectious diseases and chronic conditions such as high blood pressure and arthritis. rom plant to test tubesmany medicines are derived from plants,
to reprogram the cells into custom chemical assembly lines to produce medicinal compounds. An important predecessor to the Stanford work has been the use of genetically engineered yeast to produce the antimalarial drug artemisinin.
the Stanford team had to fill in a missing link in the basic science of plant-based medicines.
Many plants, including opium poppies, produce (S)- reticuline, a molecule that is a precursor to active ingredients with medicinal properties.
Smolke said. e need options to help ensure that the bio-based production of medicinal compounds is developed in the most responsible way. molke said that in the United states,
where opioid medicines are already widely available, the focus is on potential misuse. But the World health organization estimates that 5. 5 billion people have little
and the techniques we developed show that it is possible to make important medicines from scratch using only yeast,
and fairly provide medicines to all who need
#Scientists pioneer method to track water flowing through glaciers Researchers for the first time have used seismic sensors to track meltwater flowing through glaciers and into the ocean,
He points out that some of the medications developed for cardiovascular medicine to prevent clotting may find new purposes in enhancing tissue repair and regeneration i
Andreas Velten, a Morgridge medical engineering affiliate and scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI
but hopefully it will lead to medical applications. This gives us new opportunities to look at cell structures
The device is expected to make a difference in medical treatments, preventive health care and sports p
along with Dr. Mark Spangehl of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Arizona. By most metrics the antibiotic-resistant and susceptible strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis are phenotypically identical,
#ab-on-a-Chiptechnology to cut costs of sophisticated tests for diseases and disorders Rutgers engineers have developed a breakthrough device that can significantly reduce the cost of sophisticated lab tests for medical disorders and diseases, such as HIV,
such as the ER, are an emerging field in medicine, with several well-recognized neurological ailments linked to two other ones, the mitochondria and lysosomes.
which would enhance the effectiveness of medical interventions. The key breakthrough underlying this new technology came by chance. hile working on the first generation of these DNA-base tests,
and the inaugural director of the Joint Center for Cancer Precision Medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women Hospital,
which would enhance the effectiveness of medical interventions. The key breakthrough underlying this new technology came by chance. hile working on the first generation of these DNA-base tests,
Detailed in a paper published in Genome Medicine on September 28th this technology could prove highly useful in settings where lab equipment
and medical infrastructure is in short supply. While most other commercially available diagnostic tests target specific pathogens, the method used in the study,
whether an individual cancer patient will benefit from a specific type of medicine. This is a very effective method
As the team reports in Science Translational Medicine, the catheter has been used successfully in animal studies to facilitate hole closure without the need for open heart surgery.
the unique adhesive patch was published in Science Translational Medicine. This represented a large step forward in the quest to reduce complications associated with heart defect repair.
and in partnership with Trajan Scientific and Medical and the Federal government. ASTECH Training Centre Researcher Professor Michael Breadmore said the design
Aiming for the clinic The development of LRA is the product of a collaboration led by Tripathi and Dr. Rami Kantor, associate professor of medicine in the Warren Alpert Medical school.
assistant professor of medicine and a co-author on the paper. he next steps are to continue the development of LRA
from the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research at the University of Cambridge, said: e are starting to find that many forms of blood cancer can be traced back to defects in the basic housekeeping processes in our cellsmaturation.
the Selma and Herman Seldin Professor of Medicine. t does something that other components don do,
Holtzman and lead author Yong Zhang, Phd, an instructor in pulmonary medicine, suspect that the researchersone-two punch against the virus may explain the large difference in survival rates between control mice
He is now an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Washington and a UW Medicine researcher. nswering this question
The substance used for medicine is produced by genetically modified bacteria and then purified, avoiding the risk of other contaminant toxins.
reviews over five years worth of research on RGS10 and was published in Future Medicinal Chemistry.
Hooks and Murph tested cells to see how they would react to common chemotherapy medicines.
and there are currently no targeted therapies available. ersonalised medicine is about targeting treatment to an individual particular genetic profile,
Now, a team of researchers from Duke university have shown that these gene-controlling methods are capable of the high degree of precision required for basic science and medical research.
and certain in the long term. s a public research university working to solve some of society greatest health and medical challenges,
says Jean Robillard, M d.,interim president of the University of Iowa and vice president for medical affairs, University of Iowa Health care s
said Robert Mckenna, Ph d.,a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UF College of Medicine,
San diego, have developed a method that cuts down by half the time needed to make high-tech flexible sensors for medical applications.
Coleman team at UC San diego has been working in medical settings for four years. Their sensors have been used to monitor premature babies, pregnant women,
Such structures have been investigated for various medical applications but because they do not like water, they do not travel well in bodily fluids.
Their findings are detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
along with Dr. Samie Jaffrey, professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine. Jun Zhou, a postdoctoral research associate in Qian lab, is the paper first author.
He holds a joint appointment in UCSF Diabetes Center and Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research.
Another real-world use for magnetic field cloaking would be medicine. Magnetic resonance imaging or MRI, utilizes magnetic fields. A cloaking device for magnetic fields could make it easier for doctors to utilize MRI during operations by idingthe field from surgical instruments. hat just one application.
This study was supported by CREST program of Japan Agency for Medical Research and development, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific research of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science f
Schultz thinks there will be medical uses of synthetic organisms long before they are released into the environment to eat oil
Schultz says. think medicine is one area of pretty obvious applications. d
#Transplant Surgeons Revive Hearts After Death Transplant surgeons have started using a device that allows them to eanimatehearts from people who have died recently,
Robert Truog, a medical ethicist at Harvard university, says a question is whether these donors are given really dead
the researchers believe it has a wide range of potential applications, from consumer electronics and medical sensing devices,
including non-fouling medical tools and devices such as scalpels and implants, as well as nozzle heads for 3d printing.
but only medical staff be that doctors, nurses or other medically trained personnel can become erified In the same way Twitter blue tick verifies that a user is who they say they are,
borders, medical specialities and grades. The app is popular with medical students and forms part of their adoption of social media and the new smartphone and tablet tools that are increasingly being used in hospitals,
Could ractor beamtechnology be a reality in medicine? e can move bigger and heavier objects than we have done,
the scientists see medical applications as a priority for the technology. t could be used to manipulate kidney stones, clots,
German-based Roche diagnostics is dedicated to driving personalized and preventative medicine, and with the severity of diabetes on the forefront of focus, Roche, in partnership with SAP, created new preventative care package.
but the potential benefits that can come from adopting on-demand IT in medical research are truly life-changing,
cloud technology is vital to the medical world. On-demand IT cuts costs and increases healthcare options,
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The results are published this week in The New england Journal of Medicine. The new data which builds on preliminary findings presented at the American Society of Hematology's annual meeting in December 2013 include results from the first 25 children and young adults (ages 5 to 22
Shannon Maude MD Phd an assistant professor of Pediatrics and a pediatric oncologist at CHOP and Noelle Frey MD MSCE an assistant professor of Medicine and an oncologist at Penn's Abramson's Cancer Center
The research team is led by Carl June MD the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and director of Translational Research in the Abramson Cancer Center
and review of new medicines that treat serious or life-threatening conditions if a therapy has demonstrated substantial advantages over available treatments.
Collaborators and co-corresponding authors of the paper at Illinois include Timothy Fan associate professor veterinary clinical medicine;
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