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: Obesity's Cellular Traffic Jam; By Courtney Humphries
Tuesday, January 06, 2009; Research in mice reveals why brain cells become deaf to appetite-suppressing signals.

: The Year in Biomedicine; By Emily Singer
Monday, December 22, 2008; Brain trauma among soldiers, a $5,000 genome, cellular switches, and insight into the brain's beauty.

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Our Past Within Us: By Mark Williams | 2 Comments; The new field known as archeogenetics is illuminating prehistory.

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Recession-Resistant Medicine: By Larry Hardesty; Novel medical treatments thrive as investors get cautious.

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Spinning Silk into Sensors: By Katherine Bourzac; A simple process turns cocoons into optical devices with biological applications.

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Philips iPill: By Erica Naone | 1 Comment; A tiny device delivers drugs exactly where they're needed.

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Interpreting the Genome: By Emily Singer; New technologies will soon make it possible to sequence thousands of human genomes. Now comes the hard part: understanding all the data.

A Way to Spot Cancer Early: By Katherine Bourzac | 12/19/2008 | 1 Comment; A prototype device employs the same magnetic phenomenon used to write data to computer hard drives.

Nanotubes Track Cellular Toxins: By Courtney Humphries | 12/15/2008; Tiny sensors can monitor cancer-causing agents and chemotherapy drugs in cells.

New Ways to Boost Memory: By Emily Singer | 12/11/2008; Enhancing neuron gene expression may improve memory.

Cancer, Carefully Illuminated: By Jennifer Chu | 12/11/2008; A new imaging probe brings live cancer cells into sharp relief.

Diagnosing Disease with Paper and Tape: By Kristina Grifantini | 12/08/2008 | 1 Comment; By adding tape, researchers can make more-complex tests that are portable and cheap.

Broad Use of Brain Boosters?: By Emily Singer | 12/08/2008 | 9 Comments; Use of drugs to enhance memory and concentration should be permitted, experts say.

Greener Glass: By Lauren Cahoon | 12/04/2008; Bacteria could make acrylic glass from sugar.

Drug Trials for Autism: By Emily Singer | 12/03/2008 | 3 Comments; Treatments are being tested for three inherited forms.

Making an Old Brain Young: By Emily Singer | 12/01/2008; Scientists are developing new ways to manipulate the brain's normal plasticity.

Improving Prenatal Testing: By Rachel Kremen | 12/01/2008; A DNA chip could make it easier to diagnose rare conditions while the patient is still in utero.

How Cells Age: By Jocelyn Rice | 11/26/2008 | 8 Comments; Parallels between mice and yeast uncover a potentially universal aging mechanism.

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Biomedicine Blogs

A Simpler Way to Report Drug Side Effects: By Emily Singer | 01/05/2009
How to Spot Stem Cell Snake Oil: By Emily Singer | 12/04/2008 | 1 Comment
Unconventional-Weapons Warnings from Obama Advisors: By Katherine Bourzac | 12/02/2008
An Appetite Suppressant in Time for Turkey Day: By Brittany Sauser | 11/26/2008 | 5 Comments
The Future of Health Care: By Brittany Sauser | 11/20/2008
How to Grow New Eyes: By Emily Singer | 11/19/2008
The Latest Brain Research: By Emily Singer | 11/18/2008
New Treatments for Brain Injury: By Emily Singer | 11/17/2008 | 1 Comment
Cooling the Brain: By Emily Singer | 11/12/2008 | 3 Comments
Bone-Marrow Transplant Appears to Halt HIV: By Emily Singer | 11/10/2008 | 6 Comments

News from Around the Web

Super stethoscope: 01/06/2009 | via news.bbc.co.uk; How FBI technology is driving a medical advance

Observatory: To Assist in Fusion, Researchers Arrange for Cells to Meet Cells: 01/05/2009 | via nytimes.com; New technology may make cell fusion, which is an important tool in biological and biomedical research, more efficient.

Bending the President's Ear: 01/05/2009 | via sciencemag.org; A science adviser is only as effective as the president wants him to be, say the men who have held the job since Sputnik.

Hope of insulin cell transplant: 01/02/2009 | via news.bbc.co.uk; Scientists working towards pancreatic cell transplants as a cure for diabetes have taken the first step to getting around the problem of immune rejection

Text checks: 12/30/2008 | via news.bbc.co.uk; How medics can monitor mental health by text

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