Archive for October 2018

Fires FDA warning shot at the Australian Vaccine Maker

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Fires FDA warning shot at the Australian Vaccine Maker - MELBOURNE, Australia- A warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Australian vaccine manufacturer CSL Biotherapies has shaken confidence in the country's biotechnology superstar. The letter dated June 15 accuses CSL not...

Magnetic nanoparticles Fry Tumors

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Magnetic nanoparticles Fry Tumors - Any parent fretting about the fever of a child knows that temperatures a few degrees above normal can kill. But cancer researchers have now found a way to cure high temperatures. In a new study, a team found that injecting mice with tiny magnets and start up the...

How Blasts injure the brain

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How Blasts injure the brain - By some estimates, more than 300,000 US troops have suffered traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of these injuries resulted from roadside bomb blasts and other explosives planted by insurgents. Lack of knowledge on how an explosive...

Mass Exodus roils Brazilian Neuroscience Institute

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Mass Exodus roils Brazilian Neuroscience Institute - A rebellion in the ranks scientists created some recent turmoil at the famous research center on the brain of Brazil, the International Institute of Edmond and Lily Safra of Neuroscience of Natal (ELS-SSEETT). Since late July, 10 principal investigators...

Advocacy for impact assessments of health

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Advocacy for impact assessments of health - In 07, the developers of a senior-housing project planned in Oakland, California, decided to move the entrance 'adjacent to a busy road in a quiet Court. The change would make it safer for residents as they walked to and from home. The idea, from a group...

Senate Panel Trims NIH budget to $ 10 million

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Senate Panel Trims NIH budget to $ 10 million - A panel of the Senate today approved a 2012 bill spending slightly reduce the National Institutes of Health budget ( NIH), the cutting of $ 10 million to $ 30.5 billion. The bill would also make a priority of director Francis Collins NIH creating a...

Mummy In The oldest case of prostate cancer in ancient Egypt

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Mummy In The oldest case of prostate cancer in ancient Egypt - There are some 2250 years in Egypt, a man known only today that M1 has struggled with a long, painful, progressive disease. A dull pain throbbed in the lower back, then spread to other parts of his body, making most movements a misery....

Bails Out of Geron stem cell

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Bails Out of Geron stem cell - Geron, the company that helped pioneer research embryonic stem (hES) of human cells, said yesterday that it stops its first-in -the-world clinical trial and pulling further work on stem cells. The company, based in Menlo Park, California, will instead focus on its cancer...

Neuroscience courtroom Not Ready for Prime Time

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Neuroscience courtroom Not Ready for Prime Time - positive evidence? New Royal Society report concludes that many fruits of neuroscience, as the analysis of the brain, are not yet ready to use in legal proceedings. National Institutes of Health LONDON ...

Leukemia drugs and Magnet Japan Net Price

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Leukemia drugs and Magnet Japan Net Price - winners left to top left: .. Brian J. Druker, Masato Sagawa, Janet D. Rowley, and Nicholas B. Lydon Japan Foundation Prize TOKYO -A trio of US scientists will share this year of Japan Prize for their work on bringing...

Mixed Numbers to CDC

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Mixed Numbers to CDC - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would see a minimal increase in total funding in 2013 budgeting $ 39 million bringing its total to $ 11.2 billion . However, more than half of this total is not discretionary funds, but from other sources, including nearly...

Panel Calls for Closer Monitoring Biomarker Tests

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Panel Calls for Closer Monitoring Biomarker Tests - IOM [1945017grandsproblèmes] A long awaited review of the research flawed at Duke University found using genetic signatures to guide the cancer treatment. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) said that so-called diagnostic...

Dangers of Chinese medicine revealed by DNA studies

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Dangers of Chinese medicine revealed by DNA studies - mixture of animals. A product made using saiga critically endangered also contained goat and sheep DNA. M. L. Coghlan et al. PLoS Genetics 8 (April 2012) Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is enjoying...

The publication of the Dutch government study H5N1 OK

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The publication of the Dutch government study H5N1 OK - AMSTERDAM -The Dutch government gave virologist Ron Fouchier of Erasmus MC an export license for its H5N1 transmissibility controversial study, allowing Fouchier to send a revised manuscript of his paper science . The license "is in my...

Psychiatric Drug May Kill Cancer stem cells

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Psychiatric Drug May Kill Cancer stem cells - A well known medicine for treatment of schizophrenia can be a cancer killer, too. In laboratory studies, the drug eliminated a precursor of leukemia cells without harming normal cells. That means it could give doctors a long way out to eliminate any trace...

A breath of fresh air microbubbles

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A breath of fresh air microbubbles - Just breathe. Am injected microparticle (yellow) may deliver oxygen molecules in red blood cells (red) to transport the body. D. Kunkel / Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc., D. Bell / Harvard University, Hospital J. Kheir / BostonChildren,...
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