Archive for May 2016

More Briefs Coming in Stem Cell Lawsuit

16:47 Add Comment
More Briefs Coming in Stem Cell Lawsuit - After months of inactivity, a lawsuit challenging the legality of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) __gVirt_NP_NN_NNPS <__ funding for human embryonic stem cells (hESC) research may soon be moving again. Today, plaintiffs' lawyers in Sherley v....

Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? An Explosive 'Maybe'

15:46 Add Comment
Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? An Explosive 'Maybe' - Whether or not cell phones cause brain cancer is an issue that has been debated (but no answer) for years, and aujourd 'hui the World health Organization (WHO) stepped into the fray. A WHO committee that evaluates various potential carcinogens found...

Chimp Committee Shakeup Follows Humane Society Complaints

14:45 Add Comment
Chimp Committee Shakeup Follows Humane Society Complaints - The chairman of a committee set up to help US National Institutes of Health decide to pursue biomedical and behavioral research with chimpanzees resigned . The organizers of the committee - the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National...

Italy's Funds for HIV/AIDS Research Running Dry

13:44 Add Comment
Italy's Funds for HIV/AIDS Research Running Dry - Despite the Italian researchers HIV / AIDS gain a level above berth in the field, the government has no plans to continue the National Programme AIDS research, which in its heyday in the 190s, received € 25 million per year. The program, long part...

Cell Lines Lost in Flood at Copenhagen Biobank

12:43 Add Comment
Cell Lines Lost in Flood at Copenhagen Biobank - Aftermath. stage to the biobank earlier this week. Danish Cancer Society hundreds weekend floods in Copenhagen destroyed cell lines Biobank of the Danish Cancer Society. Scientists are still working to assess...

Stem Court Ruling a Decisive Victory for NIH

11:42 Add Comment
Stem Court Ruling a Decisive Victory for NIH - The biomedical research community is excited by the decision of the Federal Court today to throw a trial that threatened to close research funded by the federal government on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). United States District Court for the District...

Departing Director Reflects on NCRR Breakup

22:41 Add Comment
Departing Director Reflects on NCRR Breakup - National Institutes of Health Barbara Alving, director of the National Institutes doomed of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) announced earlier this week that she resign at the end of September....

U.K. Panel Says Women Egg Donors Should Be Paid

19:38 Add Comment
U.K. Panel Says Women Egg Donors Should Be Paid - Women who donate their eggs for research in the UK should be compensated for the discomfort, risk, and inconveniences they suffer, according to a report published yesterday by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. In its report "The human body: donation...

Panel Calls for Google Maps of Human Disease

18:37 Add Comment
Panel Calls for Google Maps of Human Disease - A group of experts today called for the creation of a massive data network that combines advanced genomic and molecular data Stroke patients with their routine medical records. Such a database would be a boon to research and help advance medical care...

Building a Breakable Capsule

17:36 Add Comment
Building a Breakable Capsule - Ventilation. When a new polymer absorbs infrared light ( left ), it discards ( right ), releasing any cargo inside. N. Fomina et al, Macromolecules, 44 (2011); American Chemical Society impose therapeutic drugs sometimes more...

Surprising Cells Stymie Sepsis

15:34 Add Comment
Surprising Cells Stymie Sepsis - Sepsis is not only one of the diseases of old people used to die before the discovery of antibiotics. It is still a major killer. Now, a new study shows that immune cells called B cells prevent sepsis in mice, a discovery that could help scientists design better treatments...

Journals Warned to Keep a Tight Lid on Diesel Exposure Data

13:32 Add Comment
Journals Warned to Keep a Tight Lid on Diesel Exposure Data - A long legal battle over a health study of $ 11.5 million to determine whether the diesel exhaust damage the lungs of miners suddenly expanded to take on review by scientific peers. Editors at least four research publications say they...

Gene Therapists Ask to Be Released From the RAC

12:31 Add Comment
Gene Therapists Ask to Be Released From the RAC - Apers0n / Wikimedia the main US professional society representing gene therapists have argued this week that the clinical trials their maturation area should no longer be required to undergo an examination by a...

U.S. Requires New Dual-Use Biological Research Reviews

11:30 Add Comment
U.S. Requires New Dual-Use Biological Research Reviews - The US government today issued a new policy that will require federal agencies to systematically examine potential risks associated with funded studies the federal government involving 15 "high consequence" pathogens and toxins, including avian...

Has NIH Finalized Design for Children's Study?

22:29 Add Comment
Has NIH Finalized Design for Children's Study? - continues to dog the controversial one Advisory Board will be National children study (NCS), an ambitious federal plan to track the health of 100,000 children from birth up 'at age 21. next Tuesday to consider reducing...

Squabble Over NEJM Paper Puts Spotlight on Antishock Drug

18:25 Add Comment
Squabble Over NEJM Paper Puts Spotlight on Antishock Drug - A seemingly small mistake in an article The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) landed a Danish physician and researcher in hot water last month after a German company threatened to sue for potential losses that could run into the...

Genome Sequencing Clears Up a Cancer Medical Mystery

17:24 Add Comment
Genome Sequencing Clears Up a Cancer Medical Mystery - Outlier. metastatic tumors of the bladder cancer patient ( red arrows ) disappeared when she took an experimental drug (CT images taken before the drugs and at 3 months, 6 months and 15 months) . G. Iyer et...

Reprogrammed Cells Earn Nobel Honor

16:23 Add Comment
Reprogrammed Cells Earn Nobel Honor - Honoré. John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka Creative Commons Attrib. 2.0 Generic The discovery that the cell development is not a one way street won the Nobel Prize this year in physiology or medicine. John B. Gurdon, a...
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)