"Scarcely a week ago, a leading genomics company, Illumina, announced it could sequence a human genome for the new, low price of $1,000. This week attendees at a personalized medicine conference heard a Silicon Valley startup say it would get the price down to $100." Read more.

Scope, Stanford School of Medicine blog

"Clinical trials are getting underway to test whether the body’s immune system can be “taught” to recognize and kill ovarian cancer cells, explained Oliver Dorigo, MD, PhD, at a lecture sponsored by the Stanford Women’s Cancer Center and the Stanford Health Library. One advantage of this approach is that it targets cancer cells and leaves healthy cells alone. " Read more.

Scope, Stanford School of Medicine blog

"John Rogers was in his lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign six years ago, testing new ways to make electronic circuits, when one of his team members made a mistake. The researcher accidentally pulled a piece of rubber taut as he placed it underneath a circuit; when he released the stretched rubber, it sprang back and the circuit became a wavy, buckled mess. " Read more.

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