Category Archives: Genetics

hannah

Girl Receives Engineered Trachea Treated With Her Own Stem Cells

In a medical breakthrough, South Korean doctors have successfully implanted an artificial trachea into a toddler who had been born without the windpipe. The artificial... more

Written By: | Posted: 05/6/13

autism

New Study Suggests Autism Could Be Diagnosed At Birth – By Analyzing The Placenta

Scientists have made strides recently in coming up with ways to detect autism earlier in children. But a recent study suggests it might be possible to diagnose the disorder... more

Written By: | Posted: 04/26/13

plant

Kickstarter Campaign To Create Glowing Plant Goes Viral – Singularity Labs FTW!

In what they call the “first step in creating sustainable natural lighting,” a group of innovators coming out of Singularity University have launched a Kickstarter... more

Written By: | Posted: 04/25/13

liver

New Device Keeps Liver Alive Outside Body

In what's being called a medical first, doctors were able to keep a liver functioning outside the body and then transplant it into a patient. The device is much better at... more

Written By: | Posted: 04/24/13

dna

US Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not Genes Can Be Patented

Should genes be patented or not? That’s the question currently facing the Supreme Court. Coming up with an answer that’s satisfactory to the researchers, doctors and... more

Written By: | Posted: 04/22/13

brain

New Technique Turns Brain Transparent, Gives Scientists Direct Look Into Brain

The brain remains one of the most impenetrable frontiers of science. Deciphering how its 85 billion neurons and trillion connections between them function together to allow... more

Written By: | Posted: 04/22/13

hep c

RNA-Based Drug Offers New Hope To Hepatitis C Patients

RNA molecule folded back upon itself About 170 million people in the world suffer from chronic hepatitis C, a viral infection that often leads to cirrhosis or cancer of the... more

Written By: | Posted: 04/17/13

kidney

Lab Grown Kidney Transplanted Into Rat

Imagine a future in which no one died anymore waiting for an organ. Harvard researchers have taken a major step toward that reality by not only growing an organ in the lab,... more

Written By: | Posted: 04/15/13

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