(Image courtesy of Johns Hopkins. The arrows show the blood vessels constructed from stem cells). Researchers at Johns Hopkins continue...

It’s not quite the Human Genome Project, but researchers are starting to publish data from a study of bacteria inside 1,400 homes. The...

Scientists continue to broaden the possibilities for "museumomics" and "paleomics." The newest accomplishment is sequencing DNA that is...

A reminder of when medicine was built around case reports. A now online case report on a case of silicosis, published by the Cleveland...

MicroRNA are now known as increasingly important in understanding cancer, and so will be taking on new roles in litigation involving...

SCOTUS is often fractured these days, but yesterday managed to unanimously and correctly reject patents on genes in the Myriad case. Why?...

Times and science change. It appears the Cleveland Clinic apparently recently brought online old editions of its own Cleveland Clinic...

(Image of a lung cancer cell. Photo courtesy of National Geographic.) "Seeing is believing" is a phrase learned in youth. It’s a phrase...

(Photo courtesy of TGEN and its Center for Rare Childhood Disorders. Shelby Valint is the child in the center of the picture). The power...

(Image courtesy of OHSU). It’s been done – researchers from Oregon have cloned human, embryonic stem cells. Scientific American and many...

This morning brings a feel good story that coincides with impressive new science – bio-engineered organs. In this instance, a little girl...

New tools make for new findings, and sometimes they are profound. An example of a new tool is NGS. Next generation sequencing is one of...

By all accounts, SCOTUS did not seem interested in drinking the patent think kool-aid offered by Myriad Genetics to try to justify its...

The Myriad case heads back to the US Supreme Court today for oral argument. My hope is that Mryriad’s argument for gene patents goes...

The three-dimensional electron microscopy structure of the complete Tetrahymena telomerase enzyme complex, with previously solved...

Today is the Rally for Medical Research in Washington, DC, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of cancer researchers. The point...

To catch a tumor cell? Well, obviously, you just line up and sort 10 million cells – per second – from a tube of blood. The summary...

Change is good. Once upon a time (that is, back in the 50s and 60s), tired middle-aged and older persons were targeted by ads for...

Science and law intersections sometimes arise in terrible places, but the science remains key. Consider, for example, the new well-known...

It’s good to see the US government building on lessons learned from past investments in big science. The latest target apparently is...