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Embryonic stem cells are derived from human embryos. They are valued as they are shown to be ‘pluripotent’ - having the capability to become any of the 220 types of cell in the human body. They have the potential to generate new heart, liver, brain, muscle and bone tissue to replace diseased or damaged tissue in people […]
Just to let you know that I attended one of the largest medical exhibitions in the world. Medica is vast! 16 exhibition halls in Dusseldorf, Germany housed every conceivable medical device, test and invention.
I have to admit I was a little disappointed at the low numbers of molecular diagnostic and genetic tests on show but […]
Following my article on latest prognostic tests for breast cancer, Dutch firm Agendia BV are leading the field again! Their Mammaprint® test is the first microarray to gain FDA approval and now they have won a prestigious award for innovation in the field of breast cancer.
The 2007 Frost & SullivanEuropean Product Innovation Award in the field of biomarker-based […]
Some patients, particularly young children, may be born with a genetic mutation which means they are at risk of hearing loss after taken antibiotics called aminoglycosides. There is now a drive to consider screening patients for the genetic mutation known as m.1555A-G which is held in around 1 in 1,611 newborns in the USA, 1 in […]
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