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Biotech, Children, DNA, Science & Technology News

Decoding your baby’s DNA: It can be done. But should it be?

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Maverick Coltrin was diagnosed with pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy shortly after he was born. He now gets checkups to make sure his seizures are under control and that he’s still healthy. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

Maverick Coltrin entered the world a seemingly healthy 8-pound boy. But within a week, he was having seizures that doctors could neither explain nor control. They warned that he would probably die within a few months.

“I remember my world just came crashing down,” said his mother, Kara Coltrin, 24.

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Biotech, cutting edge, Medical Breakthrough, Science & Technology News

No more painful fillings! This dental breakthrough fixes cavities “naturally” using peptides

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Scientists have developed a method for filling cavities by mimicking nature.

The sound of the dentist’s drill could be a thing of the past with news that scientists have created a way to fix tooth cavities without the need for painful fillings.

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Biotech, Health & Fitness, Medicine, People Making a Difference

Life… UNLIMITED: Beating ageing is set to become the biggest business in the world, say tycoons

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Silicon Valley billionaires are investing in slowing the ageing process

They include PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

Investor Jim Mellon is leading the anti-ageing race on this side of the Atlantic

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Biotech, Engineering, Inventions, Medical Breakthrough

Stanford researchers develop stretchable, touch-sensitive electronics

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Stanford researchers have set the stage for an evolution in electronics by taking the concept of ‘artificial skin’ to the next level, demonstrating not only a stretchable circuitry that can feel the touch of a ladybug, but a manufacturing process to mass produce this circuitry.

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Biotech, cutting edge, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough

New CRISPR method takes on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

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The advance of CRISPR gene editing technology, which uses an RNA strand to guide an enzyme called Cas9 to cut a specific portion of DNA, has raised concerns and sparked debate as people envision a not-so-distant future populated by bioengineered super-crops, genetically flawless pets, and customized babies. While the method could be used for these purposes, it’s also showing potential as a valuable medical tool, with a seemingly new condition added each week to the list of what CRISPR may one day cure.

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Biotech, Medical Breakthrough, Science & Technology News, Stem cells

Scientists grow full sized, beating human hearts from stem cells

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It’s the closest we’ve come to growing transplantable hearts in the lab

Of the 4,000 Americans waiting for heart transplants, only 2,500 will receive new hearts in the next year. Even for those lucky enough to get a transplant, the biggest risk is the their bodies will reject the new heart and launch a massive immune reaction against the foreign cells. To combat the problems of organ shortage and decrease the chance that a patient’s body will reject it, researchers have been working to create synthetic organs from patients’ own cells. Now a team of scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School has gotten one step closer, using adult skin cells to regenerate functional human heart tissue, according to a study published recently in the journal Circulation Research.

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Biotech, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Wearables

Electronic skin can display a heartbeat on your hand

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You’d know someone’s health just by looking at them.

Electronic skins might not only detect health troubles in the near future, but display them for the world to see. University of Tokyo researchers have developed an e-skin that can measure vital signs like your heartbeat and display them in real time on a skin display. The design blends a breathable nanomesh electrode and stretchable wiring with an array of micro LEDs that can output basic images bending with your body. Others know right away if you need help — they’d just have to look at your hand (or anywhere else the sensor works) to get an idea of what’s wrong. The sensor can pair with a smartphone and transmit its info to the cloud, too.

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