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This Is NOT A Test: Robot Controls Human

Researchers from the Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronic have developed a robot that can control a human limb using electrodes. By sending small electrical currents to electrodes taped to a.

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“Find & Replace” Function For Cells Speeds Up Genetic Research

ArborVita Associates (AVA), wants to disrupt the current process for performing genetic experiments on mice in order to facilitate faster genetic research that will lead to more discoveries and break-throughs.

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Collaborative Bioscience: A Medical Sales Rep’s Worst Nightmare

Medical device salesman and University of Miami Florida entrepreneur Mark Slaughter had an idea. While selling medical devices to hospital groups around South Florida, he realized that many of these.

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Would You Like Fries With That? Netherlands Dish Up Test Tube Burgers

As if we are not stuffing enough hormones and enzymes in our food today, researchers at The University of Maastricht in the Netherlands have developed the first “in vitro” ground.

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Decoding Cancer To Usher In the Era of Personalized Care

Until recently, the treatment for certain types of cancer was a “one size fits all approach.”  Basically, if you were diagnosed with “ABC” cancer you were given “XYZ” treatment.  However,.

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Why Biotech Startups are Not the Same as Tech Startups

As a former team member of a biotechnology startup, I was amazed by the amount of people, including venture capital investors, who questioned why innovation was not happening in biotechnology.

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Virtual Nurses:The Solution To The Nursing Shortage?

When you think about the most pressing issues in health care today, cost, quality, and access are most likely the first problems to come to mind and for good reasons..

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Does the Future of the Flu Vaccine Lie With Tobacco?

When you hear the word tobacco, chances are you think of cigarettes, chewing tobacco, or ailing public health.  However, thanks to an early-stage biotechnology firm backed by big tobacco companies.

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Found: A Virus that Kills Breast Cancer Cells

Penn State College of Medicine researchers have found a virus that kills human breast cancer cells. This development could lead to new treatments of breast cancer. The virus is called.

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Health IT is Broken & A Revolution Is Needed To Fix It

Would you trust your healthcare to electronic medical record systems that were developed using old technologies with a goal to simply replace paper, not improve on that paradigm?  Right now,.

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