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New Milestones in Parkinson’s Research Created by Spectroscopy
25/02/2016
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Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer’s or Huntington’s have one thing in common: so-called amyloid aggregates are deposited in the brain. The protein α-synuclein is one of the main components of the amyloid aggregates and theref...
Cheap PCR Machines Threat Danger to the Traditional Designs
25/02/2016
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Three companies have been trying to develop affordable, robust open-source PCR machines. Although the OpenPCR machine will have a rather traditional design with an aluminum block, Perfetto and Jankowski have experimented with different parts and mat...
Global Wearable Medical Devices Market To Grow to $17B by 2022
05/01/2016
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A November market research report pegs the global wearable medical devices market to reach $16.8 billion by 2022. That is up from $3.5 billion in 2014. Not surprisingly, the Diagnostics & Monitoring segment of the overall wearables market commanded...
US Health Giant Buys Opakim Medical Devices
05/01/2016
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Another giant investment was made in Turkey's health sector, which is currently attracting major foreign investors. Saint Jude Medical, one of the biggest hospital chains in the U.S., purchased Opakim Tıbbi Ürünler's cardiovascular medical devices u...
Samsung’s Bet on Biotechnology Is Test for Heir Apparent
05/01/2016
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In a 740,000-square-foot production facility here, Samsung machines are humming day and night to churn out an unlikely product for the world’s largest maker of smartphones: cancer drugs developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. The Samsung Group's $27.4...
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Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions
10/03/2016
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The CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the potential to be abused. Video provided by NewsyT...