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This chip can pluck the bad apples out of your blood
Many years from now, you’re reclining in one of the many gray-blue armchairs that line the walls of a clinic. Your arm is propped up on a collapsible ...
Research roundup: Muscles from the lab, and more
We know you want to keep up with the relentless march of progress, but sometimes it’s just too relentless. So why not forget all those endlessly...
Will this protein help speed up clinical trials?
Biomarkers are a big deal in the clinical world: if as a doctor you’re able to take one simple measurement that allows you to look into a patient’s fu...
James Peyer: Why primary indications matter
“Aging” isn’t a disease as recognized by the FDA–not yet anyway. But then how will the companies trialing anti-aging drugs eve...
Are cancer prevention and cellular reprogramming really enemies?
Imagine a physiological love triangle: in one corner, a force with the weight of millions of years of evolutionary programming trained on preventing r...
Oxidative stress response: One of the many jobs of tumor-suppressor p53
At its most dramatic, oxidative stress can rend DNA in two and predispose cells to mutations that ultimately result in cancer. But the less bombastic ...
Research roundup: The importance of energy in Alzheimer’s, and more
Since the world of Alzheimer’s therapeutics hasn’t seen much practical benefit from targeting harmful proteins like amyloid-beta, maybe ot...
A bountiful harvest of research
Keeping one eye on your calories, and the other on that delicious-looking pumpkin pie? Don’t worry–your Thanksgiving sins probably wonR...
Cheat codes for youthful cells
For much of the 20th century, the prevailing wisdom was that once cells were fully differentiated, their identities were crystallized eternally–...