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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that problems with a digestive process in cells can clog arteries.

Writing in Source Code for Biology and Medicine, a trio of bioinformaticians presents a satire on working in the field that outlines how not to succeed. "By scrupulously following these guidelines one can be sure to regress at a highly satisfactory rate," the authors write. While written in sarcasm, these humorous how-tos - "make sure the output of your application is unreadable, unparseable, and does not comply to any known standards," for example - speak to the challenges of successfully navigating a career in the burgeoning field.

In a major discovery, biologists at Tufts University were able to cause tissue to grow a new organ by simply altering the membrane voltage gradients of cells: they caused tadpoles to grow eyes outside of the head area.

$32 million to develop a technology system designed to mimic the functions of specific organ systems representing a broad spectrum of human tissues, including the circulatory, musculoskeletal and nervous systems.""

"Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have developed a model that makes predictions from which differentiated cells - for instance skin cells - can be very efficiently changed into completely different cell types - such as nerve cells, for example. This can be done entirely without stem cells. These computer-based instructions for reprogramming cells are of huge significance for regenerative medicine"

Fascinating insight into the findings of research into the human microbiome.  the idea that microbes can both hurt and heal us. that future medicine will work on improving the ratio of microbes instead of wiping them out completely. 

Crowd funding for medical research. What a great new trend.

 Circadian rhythms can boost the body's ability to fight intestinal bacterial infections, UC Irvine researchers have found.

Ward Round is an exciting new medical learning experience where you are placed in the role of the doctor to solve clinical medical mysteries against the clock. Test your medical knowledge and improve your clinical deductive skills through varied cases, spread across nine specialties, to become the ultimate diagnostician.

A newly developed software tool will make detecting abnormalities in cell and tissue samples faster, more accurate, and more consistent.

The health battles of millions, recorded digitally, open a world of virtual research. The antidepressant Paxil was approved for sale in 1992, the cholesterol-lowering drug Pravachol in 1996. Company studies proved that each drug, on its own, works and is safe. But what about when they are taken together? By mining tens of thousands of electronic patient records, researchers at Stanford University quickly discovered an unexpected answer: people who take both drugs have higher blood glucose levels. The effect was even greater in diabetics, for whom excess blood sugar is a health danger. 

A talk exploring the idea that cancer is related to injury of some sort. Cancer cells may arise to fix the injury but the the process goes wrong. Muscle cells cover 50% of the body yet almost never get cancer. Why? Eva takes us through her findings from investigating these links.