Smart Phones Help Manage Chronic Illness
Apps that connect to medical monitors have been shown to improve the health of people with diabetes and hypertension—and could ease the burden on the health-care system.App stores are exploding with...
View ArticleTransplanted Gut Bugs Protect Mice from Diabetes
Intestinal microbes from male mice changed the hormones and disease rates of female mice.By exposing female mice to the gut bacteria of a healthy adult male, researchers were able to prevent the...
View ArticleSynthetic Biology Could Speed Flu Vaccine Production
Advanced genetic engineering is already changing vaccine development and could make inroads into other branches of medicine.Synthetic biology is breathing new life into the old-fashioned world of...
View ArticleSmartphone Tracker Gives Doctors Remote Viewing Powers
Here’s the smartphone technology that alerts a doctor when patients are headed for trouble.At the Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, nurses can see into the lives of some diabetes...
View ArticleA Breathalyzer That Knows When You’re Burning Fat
Monitoring acetone in breath could tell dieters whether their efforts are paying off.People trying to lose weight may not always be able to tell whether a new diet or exercise regime is having the...
View ArticleStem Cells from a Diabetes Patient
Researchers hope stem cells could one day treat chronic conditions like diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.A series of breakthroughs in cloning technology over the last year and a half are stoking hopes...
View ArticleDNA-Based Research May Have Unveiled Long-Sought Diabetes Treatment
A synthetic drug that controls blood sugar in obese mice demonstrates the potential of a DNA-dependent method for developing new chemical compounds.After decades of searching, researchers may have...
View ArticleA Chip Offers a Faster and Cheaper Test for Type 1 Diabetes
An inexpensive but precise method of detecting type 1 diabetes could be a life-saver.Stanford University scientists say they have developed a new test for type 1 diabetes that will cost a fraction of...
View ArticleA Pancreas in a Capsule
Stem-cell advocates pin their hopes on a method of treating diabetes.Fourteen years ago, during the darkest moments of the “stem-cell wars” pitting American scientists against the White House of George...
View ArticleThe Problem Solver
Cancer. Diabetes. Liver disease. If there’s a bioengineering challenge, Robert Langer, ScD ’74, is ready to tackle it.When Robert Langer completed his doctorate in chemical engineering in 1974, he...
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