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• Risk genes for Alzheimer’s and mental illness linked to brain changes at birth

  Some brain changes that are found in adults with common gene variants linked to disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and autism can also be seen in the brain scans of newborns. ”These results suggest that prenatal brain development may be a very important influence on psychiatric risk later in life,” [...]

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• The promise of “computational medicine”

  Computational medicine, a fast-growing method of using sophisticated computer models to figure out how disease develops, promises a new era of personalized medicine.

  “We are poised at an exciting time in medicine,” writes Raimond L. Winslow, director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of Computational Medicine and lead author on the Science [...]

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• Designer Atoms

  Three University of Chicago chemistry professors hope that their separate research trajectories will converge to create a new way of assembling what they call “designer atoms” into materials with a broad array of potentially useful properties and functions.

  These “designer atoms” would be nanocrystals—crystalline arrays of atoms intended to be manipulated [...]

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• Hydrogen peroxide vapor enhances disinfection of superbugs

  Infection control experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that a combination of robot-like devices that disperse a bleaching agent into the air and then detoxify the disinfecting chemical are highly effective at killing and preventing the spread of multiple-drug-resistant bacteria, or so-called hospital superbugs.

  An Evaluation of Environmental [...]

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• Flu outbreaks predicted with weather forecast techniques

  Scientists at Columbia University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have adapted techniques used in modern weather prediction to generate local forecasts of seasonal influenza outbreaks. By predicting the timing and severity of the outbreaks, this pilot system can eventually help health officials and the general public better prepare [...]

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• Neural stem cell transplants slow progression of ALS

  Results from a meta-analysis of 11 independent amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research studies are giving hope to the ALS community by showing, for the first time, that the fatal disease may be treatable. Multimodal Actions of Neural Stem Cells in a Mouse Model of ALS: A Meta-Analysis was published online in December [...]

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• Bioinformatics Explained Simply

  Explainer: what is bioinformatics?

  By Mark Ragan, University of Queensland

  Bioinformatics underpins and enables research across the life sciences.

  This ranges from high-volume reductionist science (genomics, proteomics and the other “omics”, regulation of gene activity, epigenetics, protein and RNA structure and function, cell organisation) to comparative, evolutionary [...]

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• Gray Swoope: “Strong Momentum for Florida in the Life Sciences Industry”

  Over the past decade Florida has leapt ahead of the competition to establish itself as the new location for life sciences innovation and industry growth. Florida is now home to the 2nd fastest growing biotech industry in the U.S., 2nd among states for FDA registered medical device manufacturing facilities and [...]

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