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INTELLIGENT DRUGS. Quantum dots are used as tags for proteins in cell assays. Could they be used as tags to biological or small molecule drugs to develop a new generation of intelligent drugs that respond to their environment as a trigger to releasing their payload? http://lnkd.in/NkF_eu View in LinkedIn

US REFERENCE LABS are being challenged by the FDA for possible new regulation, and the American Clinical Lab Association has filed a Citizen's Petition disputing that the FDA has the authority to regulate them, because by definition they are not 'devices' over which the FDA does has legislative authority. The existing approval for reference labs is under the Clinical Labs Improvement Act or CLIA, and has resulted in a safe and orderly industry for many decades. How about a real problem target like the food industry. Did I mention tobacco? View in LinkedIn

PREDICTION: Computerized contact lenses to replace Google Glass? One of the lovely things about the moment of time we live in is that there are so many clever new things being developed that one is like a kid in a candy store. Take this concept. After robotic sand grains that swarm to feel a shape for 3D printing, surely computerized contact lenses are child's play? It is possible that we live today in the most technologically innovative era yet in history. http://lnkd.in/HyscMH View in LinkedIn

ANTIBIOTIC POLLUTION. Alexander Fleming changed history by discovering penicillin, earning him the Nobel Prize in 1945. But our over-zealous use of antibiotics, including in high density meat and fish production, has encouraged nasty pathogenic antibiotic-resistant bacteria. These molecules are in our food, and in most water supplies. With a thin pipeline of new antibiotics in trials, public health officials are concerned. View in LinkedIn

HEALTHCARE TRENDS: right on the money. Except for massive changes as a result of regenerative medicine (growing artificial organs and body parts in test tubes), and except for a revision of pricing of very effective biological drugs, this prediction of the future of medicine hits the spot. I would lastly add that DNA vaccines against a host of diseases will emerge as an important trend. A good read, and makes me think we will look back at our current age of medicine as a barbaric and careless wasteland. Room for great optimism. http://lnkd.in/6Wbh6P View in LinkedIn

CARTILAGE bioengineering to replace damaged cartilage is making strides. We can expect routine cartilage replacement within a decade. View in LinkedIn

THE AVANDIA story continued. http://lnkd.in/6vaty3 View in LinkedIn

DMD was once a model of find the gene, find the defective protein, and the cure will emerge. Not quite that simple! View in LinkedIn

GSK's record-breaking 3.0 Bn USD fine for concealing adverse cardiac data on the diabetes drug Avandia, and FDA's complicity in hiding the data is reviewed in this compelling article. Sadly, this remarkable fiasco has done little to preserve the reputation of the drug maker nor the FDA. And that the subject is being re-opened appears to be yet another bad judgement call. Ouch. http://lnkd.in/UQ5zpx View in LinkedIn

SUPERPAPER with microfluidic channels for sample flow using desktop printer to make cheap disposable diagnistics: the marriage of solid phase microfluidics (old) with cellulose based diagnostics (old) to make something new and original. View in LinkedIn