posted on 19 November 2009 5:37PM EST
Many people associate Luxembourg with the banking industry, i.e., local and global financial institutions. However, that small country located in Northwest Europe recently embarked upon something completely different—the establishment of a biobank. The independent and not-for-profit Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg (IBBL) plans to collect, store, analyze, and redistribute biospecimens while preserving the confidentiality of the donor's data. How the IBBL plans to do this is the subject of today’s podcast.
During this GEN podcast, ...more.
posted on 9 November 2009 5:35PM EST
Unclog the Innovation Bottleneck at our Nation’s Universities
By Renee Kaswan
Choice and open competition in a free market – they’re the pillars on which the U.S. economy rests.
Yet the very thing they are designed to foster – innovation – is at risk, because the process by which innovations come to market at universities undermines open competition and inhibits inventor choice.
The federal government invests $30 billion per year in medical research through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the stimulus added another $10 billion over two ...more.
posted on 9 November 2009 11:54AM EST
For anybody who runs a laboratory, it is the stuff of nightmares. It is the enormous hamster wheel on which scientists find themselves interminably scrambling. Yes, it’s the one topic that can make any researcher cringe. I’m sure that by now you’ve figured out that we’re talking about: research funding. Yes, it’s a cold hard fact that even the most brilliant mind can’t run his/her laboratory without money, just as the most beautiful, expensive car cannot run without fuel. The debate regarding how to divide funds among different research areas and laboratories has existed, no doubt, ever since ...more.
posted on 5 November 2009 4:28PM EST
Using an RNA-powered nanomotor, University of Cincinnati (UC) biomedical engineering scientists successfully developed an artificial pore able to transmit nanoscale material through a membrane.
In a study led by Dr. Peixuan Guo, members of the UC team inserted the modified core of a nanomotor into a lipid membrane. The resulting channel enabled them to move both single- and double-stranded DNA through the membrane.
During this week's podcast Dr. Guo talks about the creation of the RNA nanomotor and provides additional ...more.
posted on 4 November 2009 6:29PM EST
Drug delivery seems to be a major theme here this year. I hope Light Sciences Oncology CEO Llew Keltner will forgive my stretching the concept to include the technology his company has developed which is promising to make light-activated therapy for cancer a clinical reality. The traditional approach to light-activated therapy uses a laser to deliver the light, which is not really practical in the clinic. The LSO product, Aptocine ™ is a combination of an LED array delivered to a tumor via biopsy and a non-toxic water soluble photosensitive compound, talaporfin sodium. Phase III results in ...more.
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