Life Science

Take a look at this group that is linked to Georgia Tech – and the Bioneers Southeast Forum coming to Atlanta this week: An interdisciplinary group of scientists and engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently formed the Center for Biologically Inspired Design with "the goal of capitalizing on the rich source of design solutions present in biological processes. ...

SINGAPORE, Oct. 25–A scientific conference on stem cells, senescence and cancer opened here on Tuesday with the participation of about 500 top biomedical research scientists and clinicians from United States, Europe and Asia… The Singapore conference, organized by Keystone Symposia, the well-known organizer of scientific conferences, is the first scientific meeting of its kind to be held outside of North ...

Amazingly one of the first benefits of nanotechnology may be really, really sensitive detectors of cancer. Harvard University researchers have found that molecular markers indicating the presence of cancer in the body are readily detected in blood scanned by special arrays of silicon nanowires — even when these cancer markers constitute only one hundred-billionth of the protein present in a ...

This morning’s NY Times has a fascinating article about the difficulties people with serious illnesses are having with the overwhelming amount of information that is available to them and about how uncomfortable they are making the choices they often face as "autonomous" decision makers. The article starts with the experience of a woman with ovarian cancer. When given differing suggestions ...