On Topic Experimental Man

Growing Heart Cells Just for You

September/October 2011
By David Ewing Duncan

What can heart cells generated from my blood tell me about my risk for disease—and about what drugs I should take if I get sick?

The Experimental Man section explores new tools and technologies in personalized medicine, and one man’s quest to use these to test his genes, brain, and body for customized health care. More >

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A non-destructive method for imaging single proteins could help solve one of the biggest challenges in biology

Demonstration of Actuation-at-a-Distance Effect for Labs on a Chip

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Bio-Assembling in 3-D with Magnetic Levitation

A new system grows tissue in 3-D without protein matrixes

Biophysicists Discover Four New Rules of DNA 'Grammar'

For 60 years, biologists have known of only two grammar-like rules that govern the language of DNA. Now they've found four more

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