Rewriting Life Device Brings $1,000 Genome Within Reach Ion Torrent introduced its new tabletop sequencer at CES this week. by Erica Westly 2012-01-12T16:50:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Fluorescent Protein Lights Up the Inner Workings of the Brain The advance offers a nontoxic way to study how the organ works, and how disease impairs it. by Erica Westly 2011-12-06T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Fluorescent Spray Could Help Surgeons Identify Cancer Quickly Researchers develop a spray that could make cancer cells glow within a minute of application. by Erica Westly 2011-11-29T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Researchers Create a Pituitary Gland from Scratch The results could be an initial step toward generating viable, transplantable human organs. by Erica Westly 2011-11-09T14:27:00-05:00
Rewriting Life Light-Based Therapy Destroys Cancer Cells The new approach, which features a heat-sensitive fluorescent dye, could eventually replace standard chemotherapy. by Erica Westly 2011-11-08T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life A More Modern Blood Thinner Researchers get closer to making the drug heparin without raw animal materials. by Erica Westly 2011-10-28T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Smart-Phone App Tracks Heart Rate Researchers show that a smart phone can measure some vital signs accurately and conveniently. by Erica Westly 2011-10-14T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Researchers Engineer Mice with Anomalies Linked to Autism, Schizophrenia By creating animals with chromosomal abnormalities, they hope to learn more about how the disorders develop. by Erica Westly 2011-10-04T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Gene Variant Could Explain Why Asthma Treatment Often Fails The discovery could help doctors treat the 40 percent of patients who don’t respond well to inhalers. by Erica Westly 2011-09-26T12:03:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Brain Imaging Reveals What You're Watching Researchers develop an fMRI-based model to reconstruct moving images that people are seeing. by Erica Westly 2011-09-22T19:19:00-04:00