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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 People
Video
How Scientists Make Heart Cells
The Tools
Slideshow
Visiting Wisconsin to See My Heart
The Blog
Blog
My Genome Via E-mail
Blog
The Great Bio-Divide
- By David Ewing Duncan
- 10.31.2011
- 9 Comments
At TEDMED - the gap is yawning between hopes and visions and reality in biomedicine
Blog
George Church on the Future of Stem Cells
- By David Ewing Duncan
- 09.14.2011
- 3 Comments
Q&A with the Harvard geneticist.
Article
Stem-Cell Engineering Offers a Lifeline to Endangered Species
- By Emily Singer
- 09.04.2011
- 1 Comment
A technology used to develop new medical treatments might one day revive endangered or extinct species.
Blog
Experimental Man Redux
- By David Ewing Duncan
- 08.23.2011
- 1 Comment
The experiments continue in one man's quest to test drive the latest in high tech medicine.
Video
The Science of IPS Cells
- 08.23.2011
Biologist James Thompson and others discuss the discovery of IPS cells: the science and the potential for research and personalized medicine.
Video
Stem Cells and Entrepreneurs
- 08.23.2011
How Cellular Dynamics International is commercializing the new technology of induced pluripotent stem cells.
Blog
Avatar Tech Helps Doctors Test for ADHD
- By David Ewing Duncan
- 05.31.2011
Reflectors attached to my head and ankles--like those used in James Cameron's Avatar--measure my distractibility.
Blog
Linking Environmental Chemicals to Disease
- By David Ewing Duncan
- 05.21.2010
- 1 Comment
Stanford researchers use a novel approach to link pesticides and an ingredient in vitamin E to diabetes.
Blog
Company will reverse-engineer my cells
- By David Ewing Duncan
- 01.25.2010
CDI has offered to bioengineer cells from my blood to create heart cells.
Blog
More experimental man in 2010
- By David Ewing Duncan
- 01.04.2010
This is the year we figure out what to do with all of the DNA being generated by faster, cheaper sequencing technologies - and more
San Francisco-
based journalist and author
This 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.
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