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Pharmaceutical Companies Rethink Emerging Market Potential

Recent market reports indicate that actual drug sales in certain emerging countries could fall short of forecasts as a result of slowing economies, intense local competition, and tight government measures geared at controlling healthcare costs and supporting domestic companies. More...
05 Sep 2012
Image: Laura Indolfi (left) holds up a sample of a sponge-like scaffold that she and Elazer Edelman (right) used to show that implanted cells’ therapeutic properties depend on their shape (Photo courtesy of Patrick Gillooly, MIT).

Engineered Tissue Effectiveness Hinges on Where It Is Grown

Tissue implants comprised of cells grown on a sponge-like scaffold have been shown in clinical trials to help heal arteries damaged by atherosclerosis and other vascular diseases. However, it has been not yet known why some implants work better than others do. More...
04 Sep 2012

Plasmid-Based Culture Method for Massive Growth of Human Stem Cells

A recent paper described the use of plasmids rather than viral vectors to induce mature blood cells to revert to the primitive state of induced-pluripotent stem cells, which could then be used for the development of stem cell-based therapies. More...
04 Sep 2012

Artificial Retina Capable of Restoring Normal Vision

Two researchers have decoded the mouse retina neural code and combined these data to an innovative prosthetic device to restore sight to blind mice. More...
04 Sep 2012

US Appeals Court Rules Breast Cancer Genes May Be Patented, but Nullifies Patents Comparing Sequences

In a 2-1 decision, a US Federal Appeals court once again partially reversed a lower court’s ruling in a case challenging patents on two human genes associated with hereditary breast cancer and ovarian cancer. More...
04 Sep 2012
Image: Bacteria in clumps (Photo courtesy of Younger lab, U-M Medical School).

Simulated Blood Flow Device Demonstrates How Bloodstream Infections Begin

A computer model of how bacteria traveling through the bloodstream clumped together may explain how bloodstream infections resist antibiotics. More...
02 Sep 2012

Glycosylation Gives Growth Advantage to Hypoxic Tumor Cells

Tumors survive in a microenvironment characterized by low oxygen levels by shifting the metabolism of their cells away from the glycolytic pathway used by normal cells and onto the alternative pentose phosphate pathway. More...
02 Sep 2012
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