It’s a necessary but sobering annual rite of spring – ASCO members arrive in Chicago for the annual meeting of oncologists at McCormick...

Evidence continues to accumulate regarding epigenetic changes and cancer. A May 30, 2014 article in ScienceDaily reports on a breast...

With Memorial Day now a memory, it’s time to move forward again. To start with a light topic, the White House Science Fair is today. It’s...

Yesterday’s post pointed out the new solid tumor mutation test offered by Foundation Medicine.  The molecular biology revolution also...

Computers, cell phones, cameras and chips are radically and rapidly reinventing testing for physical characteristics, and at...

Velocity continues to increase for turning cutting edge molecular biology into businesses and new treatments. On March 14, the UK...

Digital data today pours out in immense quantities. How to see and convey the signal? With that in mind, Edward Tufte will soon be...

Are you in general healthy? Are you free of the major risk factors for near term death (smoking, obesity, excess alcohol, lack of...

This WSJ article/op-ed provides insights and predictions into the relatively near-term future of personalized medical monitoring, and the...

"Nine blood stem cell colonies are illustrated in the image, which have developed into differentiated cell types, particularly into white...

How much change is ahead in molecular science, and then toxic torts? Consider this. A new paper reports that the University of Chicago’s...

How many medical journal articles did you and your toxic tort team review in depth in 2013? Perhaps you have a deep and skilled team,...

Change is happening. Even the ever stodgy Economist is paying attention to and writing optimistically about genetic therapies. #Science

A new book, the Second Machine Age, makes the point that human minds do not do well in grasping exponential errors or levels of change....

Another week and more revolutionary findings about stem cells and their ability to turn into any kind of cell. Why mention here these...

(Credit: Alex Jerez Roman, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology) What can you get when you combine heart cells, wire and...

Illumina is the world leader in sequencing genes. From 1988-2003, the government-sponsored Human Genome Project blazed a wonderful trail...

Welcome to 2014. Researchers took a succesfull first step on generating organized sets of eye cells using ink jet printing systems. This...

Ever wondered when and how biologists started using mice for cancer experiments? The answers are in an easy to read article from...

Thinking long-term. It’s not necessarily a strength of lawyers or their clients. For scientists, however, it’s often a priority. Thus,...