The National Institutes of Health has awarded a University of Maryland research team a $1.8 million grant to develop new data visualization tools for the open-source genome bioinformatics initiative Bioconductor. ..

How will you and your family be protected by the new actions the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking to keep your food safe? The first two of seven rules proposed to implement the landmark FDA Food Safet..

At 1 am today, apple held a new product release conference at Graham Bill Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Let’s look at the new highlights in medical health field. Highlight one: Apple Watch Key words: ..

People may be able to contract Alzheimer's during certain medical procedures in the same way as the brain disease CJD, say researchers. Contaminated surgical instruments or injections, such as human growth hormo..

World Economic Forum released the ten annual emerging technologies in 2015, including flying robots, imitated human brain chip and other ten major breakthroughs in technology progress. This list is released every ye..

Recently, Jack Ma participated in Xiamen International Trade Investment Forum and made an address with a topic of Business Is Harder But More Opportunities. Ma has started to participate the Davos Forum sinc..

Thermo Fisher Scientific said today that it has received the in vitro diagnostics device (IVDD) CE mark for its Thermo Scientific Prelude MD HPLC, Endura MD mass spectrometer, and ClinQuan MD software. The approva..

Current peanut allergy tests are not very reliable when it comes to diagnosing the severity of an individual's allergic reaction, which can range from hives to life-threatening anaphylactic shock. Severity of..

In a robust clinical study, researchers have determined the precise magnitude of change in cardiac troponin levels required for early diagnosis of a heart attack (myocardial infarction (MI)), thus improving the alread..

A European research consortium has developed a test for the detection of drug resistant strains of the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which yields results within a few days rather than the per..

Wang Jianlin, CEO of Dalian Wanda Group be a guest in certain speech program whom shared his own growing and starting a business experience, and his reflections on life with the top of Only Persistence Makes You Succe..

Earlier this year, MIT Technology Review released the list of Breakthrough Technologies 2015. The liquid biopsies are closely linked with life science. Jay Flately, the CEO of Illumina said the liquid biopsies mar..

A new blood test promises to predict which people will have severe allergic reactions to foods such as peanuts and shellfish. Physicians typically use skin prick tests (SPT) or blood tests that measure levels of..

A device as the size of a Ping-Pong ball can extract a small blood sample while held against the skin for two minutes which may make blood sampling less painful and more convenient. A slight vacuum in the device..

In a large prospective multicenter set of two clinical validation studies, a new bronchial genomic test was found effective in helping to prevent unnecessary invasive, often risky and expensive procedures during diagn..