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
- 4 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
