Archive for August 2017

Stem Cell No Stranger litigants Limelight Scientific

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Stem Cell No Stranger litigants Limelight Scientific - One day after the Department of Justice said it plans to appeal the injunction that suspended federal funding for research embryonic stem cells, more details have emerged about the scientists who won this round. James Sherley, a researcher on...

Appeals Court Stays Stem Cell Injunction

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Appeals Court Stays Stem Cell Injunction - A federal appeals court this morning, stayed, or suspended, preliminary injunction issued two weeks ago that funding federal for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research stopped. The Court of the United States calling for D.C. Circuit took less than a day...

Lung Cancer Screening promises great benefits, Big Costs

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Lung Cancer Screening promises great benefits, Big Costs - One of the largest clinical trials ever managed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) ended today with news but hope the budget in jeopardy. NCI Director Harold Varmus announced at a press conference that the National Lung Screening Trial...

NIH Considering New Translational Medicine Institute

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NIH Considering New Translational Medicine Institute - Weeks after deciding to cut one of its 27 institutes and centers, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now seeking to create a new center focused on translational medicine. An advisory board will vote on the proposal next week. According...

Labelling follows testosterone

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Labelling follows testosterone - A Health Canada scientist continued his boss, Ottawa Citizen reports, saying his effort to change the label of the drug testosterone leads call it mentally unstable and give poor performance evaluations. Thaddeus Yarney, a reproductive endocrinologist, claiming...

Mixed Messages on Alzheimer test

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Mixed Messages on Alzheimer test - There is a striking contrast in media coverage of the FDA advisory committee meeting yesterday on a test for a signature feature of Alzheimer's disease. A The New York Times , cutting Gina Kolata enthusiasm is at least half full: F.D.A. Sees Promise in Alzheimer's...

Over fourteen Senators Question NIH Reorganization

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Over fourteen Senators Question NIH Reorganization - concerns a group of senators has registered on the National Institutes of plane (NIH) of Health to abolish the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR ) to make way for a new center for translational science. In a letter dated February 14...

A safer way to detect Down syndrome

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A safer way to detect Down syndrome - A would-be mom worried Down syndrome faces an unpleasant choice: undergo an invasive test that can kill the fetus, or forego a definitive answer until after birth. But a new method that involves tracing the differences between DNA and the mother of his baby could...

Brighten hopes for Embattled Australian Medical researchers

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Brighten hopes for Embattled Australian Medical researchers - MELBOURNE, Australia- After a week of national events, the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on April 19 sought to reassure scientists that his government was rethinking a rumor of $ 423 million ($ 400 million AUD) cut medical...

Brighten hopes for Embattled Australian Medical researchers

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Brighten hopes for Embattled Australian Medical researchers - MELBOURNE, Australia- After a week of national events, the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on April 19 sought to reassure scientists that his government was rethinking a rumor of $ 423 million ($ 400 million AUD) cut medical...

Panel wants NIGMS Stop Grants funding glue

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Panel wants NIGMS Stop Grants funding glue - An expert group has asked the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to scrap 11 years, $ 368 million foray great in biology. Only two of the five original "glue grant" from the NIH institute were clear success, concludes an external review...

When Snake Bites ... Try Ointment

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When Snake Bites ... Try Ointment - Time is the enemy for people who have been bitten by a poisonous snake, but a new study may give them a little more from him. The researchers identified an ointment that slows the spread of certain types of snake venom through the body, which could give snakebite...

Australia Stem cell Regs resist the examination

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Australia Stem cell Regs resist the examination - MELBOURNE, Australia- Rejecting arguments that stem cell regulations in Australia are too permissive, an independent group the July 7 advised the government not to change the rules. "The Australian current legislation strikes the right balance by...

Immune cells 'Serial Killer' Put the cancer in remission

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Immune cells 'Serial Killer' Put the cancer in remission - The patient was dying of leukemia. One hundred and seventy of 0 cells in his bone marrow had a mutation causing cancer, and her lymph nodes were swollen, a sign that the cancer was deteriorating. He had already been on several courses of...

New WHO Data Leads to Prevention late guidelines for couples

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New WHO Data Leads to Prevention late guidelines for couples - retries HIV prevention Upbeat findings presented last week at an international AIDS conference held in Rome complicated by the World health Organization (WHO) write much awaited guidelines for heterosexual couples where one partner is...

Glowing kittens fight against feline AIDS

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Glowing kittens fight against feline AIDS - Scientists have genetically modified cats by infecting their eggs with a virus containing a foreign gene first time this method has worked in a carnivore. Experts say the advance could make the cat a valuable new genetic model and potentially protect against...

Study casts doubt on an aging gene Key

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Study casts doubt on an aging gene Key - For years, researchers who study aging have pursued a dream: a way to mimic the effects of extending the life of calorie restriction without drastic diet. It was ten years ago, a group claimed that artificially stimulate the activity of a gene offered a way...

Monkeys Control Virtual Limbs with their spirits

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Monkeys Control Virtual Limbs with their spirits - Regarding the prosthetic hands, you can not beat the Luke Skywalker receives in The empire against attack . Not only will this robotic arm allow him to wield a lightsaber with great dexterity, each finger twitched when their robot thicket. Although...

Court approves the rescue Italian Research Center

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Court approves the rescue Italian Research Center - One of the most prestigious private biomedical research centers in Italy the Vatican Bank may have gained a new lease on life. On Friday, October 28, an Italian bankruptcy court gave the green light to an offer made by the Institute for Works of...

Update UNAIDS urges countries to Rev Up Response

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Update UNAIDS urges countries to Rev Up Response - How to get to zero: Faster. Smarter. Better. This is the title of a new report released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) to update the status of the epidemic in the preparation of the World Day AIDS on 1 December....

Update UNAIDS urges countries to Rev Up Response

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Update UNAIDS urges countries to Rev Up Response - How to get to zero: Faster. Smarter. Better. This is the title of a new report released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) to update the status of the epidemic in the preparation of the World Day AIDS on 1 December....
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