Archive for the ‘biotech/medical’ category: Page 2069
Nov 26, 2018
Dangerous Infection Tied To Hospitals Now Becoming Common Outside Them
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
C. Diff Infections Crop Up Outside Hospitals And Nursing Homes : Shots — Health News Infections with Clostridium difficile can be difficult to treat and life-threatening. Once a problem seen mainly in health care facilities, the infections are now occurring often in the community.
Nov 26, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
A daring effort is under way to create the first children whose DNA has been tailored using gene editing.
Nov 26, 2018
Support LEAF in Project for Awesome 2018
Posted by Steve Hill in category: biotech/medical
Since 2007, the Project for Awesome, simply known as P4A, has been helping to make the world a better place. It is an initiative of the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, a Montana-based charitable organization run by Hank and John Green, and their plan is simple: to make the world suck less.
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Nov 26, 2018
AP Exclusive: First gene-edited babies claimed in China
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, ethics, genetics
And so it begins…
HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics. A U.S. scientist said he took part in the work in China, but this kind of gene editing is banned in the United States because the DNA changes can pass to future generations and it risks harming other genes. Many mainstream scientists think it’s too unsafe to try, and some denounced the Chinese report as human experimentation.
Nov 26, 2018
Augmented Reality to Change Surgery Techniques
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: augmented reality, biotech/medical
Mounting an augmented reality device to a surgeon’s head — pioneering new research promises to save thousands of lives by merging classic techniques with modern technology.
At Pisa’s University, in Italy, researchers of the Vostars project, are working to develop a new kind of surgical visor in a bid to improve accuracy of interventions and reducing surgery times by at least 11%.
“The reality is of course the operating field, the anatomy that is in front of the surgeon; on this reality, we insert a virtual information that is acquired from the radiological images of the same patient. ”explained Vincenzo Ferrari, a biomedical engineer turned project coordinator for Vostars.
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Nov 26, 2018
This 13-year-old scientist has invented a better way to treat pancreatic cancer
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Nov 25, 2018
Defect-free Mice born from same-sex parents
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, sex
Healthy mice have been born from same-sex parents in China. To investigate the ways that mammalian reproduction differs from other animals, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences used stem cells and genetic manipulation to produce 29 live, healthy offspring from two female mice. The pups have since grown to adulthood and had babies of their own.
Nov 25, 2018
Spinal-cord stimulators mean big business for device makers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, business
Few medical devices hold as much potential for explosive growth as spinal-cord stimulators, especially in the United States, where they are being pushed as the answer to the country’s opioid epidemic.
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The global market for spinal-cord stimulators has grown from $300 million in 2001 to nearly $2 billion in 2017, according to an estimate by Nevro, a Redwood City, California, company that manufactures the devices.
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Nov 25, 2018
New Nanobots Kill Cancerous Tumors
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology
In animal models, the nanobots caused damage to the tissue of the tumor within 24 hours of treatment.