The Center for Immunotherapy at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) is about to begin a very exciting new cancer clinical trial that will test a personalized immunotherapy to attack cancer cells....View Comments

A sequence alignment is a way of arranging the sequences of D.N.A, R.N.A or protein to identify regions of similarity. These similarities may be consequences of functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships between the sequences. From ...View Comments

Hemophilia is a rare blood-clotting disease famously known for afflicting the royal families throughout Europe. One type, Hemophilia B, also called Christmas disease after Stephen Christmas, the first patient described with it, is caused by ...View Comments

A collaboration of researchers from Wayne State University, the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins Medicine has discovered a potential new treatment for macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. The investigators managed to attach steroids to dendrimers ...View Comments

Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene is not only fun to say, but it is also an incredibly versatile material commonly used as a bearing surface in joint replacements. Polyethylene has low friction, good fracture toughness ...View Comments

Ontario nuclear plants are the first in their industry worldwide to test-drive a futuristic gizmo that measures employees' concentration by reading brain waves. The premise is deceptively simple: Use the electric current released ...View Comments

InterVapor, from Uptake Medical (Tustin, CA), is a non-surgical endoscopic lung volume reduction procedure that uses thermal ablation without leaving foreign materials in the lung. In clinical studies of patients with severe emphysema, InterVapor has demonstrated ...View Comments

Medtronic received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its Aquamantys SBS 5.0 Sheathed Bipolar Sealer for sealing soft tissue and epidural veins during spinal surgery. The device ...View Comments

Stanford’s decade old biodesign program is partnering up with FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health to help the agency adapt the way it screens new medical technologies. The parties have reached a “memorandum of understanding,” ...View Comments

Players of the online protein folding game Foldithave reached another milestone, creating an 18-fold-more-active version of a model enzyme. The gamers worked on an enzyme that catalyses the Diels-Alder reaction, which is used in the synthesis ...View Comments

Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care organization in the United States, has unveiled an Android app and mobile-optimized website through which its 9 million patients can access their own medical information anywhere in the world on their mobile ...View Comments

The FDA has conditionally approved an investigational device exemption (IDE) for a pivotal clinical trial to evaluate a new patented isometric handgrip therapy technology. A product of Zona Health(Boise, ID), the ZonaRx device was developed for ...View Comments