Archive for November 2018

Cancer of the mother can infect her Fetus

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Cancer of the mother can infect her Fetus - A striking case in Japan confirmed that pregnant women with cancer can transmit the disease to their fetuses. These transmissions normally blocked by the placenta are rare, so the work will not likely change how doctors screen or care for pregnant women....

How swine flu vaccines are as Disco

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How swine flu vaccines are as Disco - Pandemic make strange bedfellows in this case, advocates of public health and the falcons defense. Commission on the Prevention of WMD and terrorism posted a video that asks why the United States is still based on a centuries-old technology based on eggs...

Staring at Goats, geoengineering World

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Staring at Goats, geoengineering World - Here is an overview of some of the stories that we followed on science political blog of science Insider: a petition presented earlier this year at the direction of the American Physical society Council to change the...

NIH Slammed Again for Lax oversight of conflicts of interests

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NIH Slammed Again for Lax oversight of conflicts of interests - National Institutes of Health is again taken to task for doing too little to manage potential conflicts of researchers interest, such as consulting for drug companies. This time federal investigators say NIH should strengthen the rules...

Wisconsin won a battle on

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Wisconsin won a battle on - cholesterol compounds Chalk another win patent to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Its powerful IP-complement the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) -appears have knocked a biotechnology partner, Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc., Burnaby, Canada, said he tried...

Greedy Virus helps spread the disease

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Greedy Virus helps spread the disease - go. Protein projectiles (red) growing the virus particles away towards uninfected cells. Science / AAAS "Mine, all mine!" This is what the vaccinia virus seems to say after it invades a cell and prevents his companions...

Drug Cattle may help fight against river blindness

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Drug Cattle may help fight against river blindness - Infected . The worm responsible for river blindness can cause serious skin lesions. WHO A veterinary drug that kills the worms in cattle can also fight against river blindness, a debilitating infection parasite...

Podcast: Children of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

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Podcast: Children of Assisted Reproductive Technologies - SAN DIEGO -Is babies born through IVF different from those born naturally? And new fertility treatment creating a larger population of infertile? "The answer is maybe yes," said Andre Van Steirteghem of the Brussels University Hospital Center...

New approach to cancer: fast, cheap, and Radical

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New approach to cancer: fast, cheap, and Radical - Frustrated by the cost and slow death pace of drug development, a group of researchers today launched a new unique strategy for clinical trials execution. Their goals are bold. They want to bring many products being tested in a single framework,...

Biotech crops found to offer substantial benefits to farmers

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Biotech crops found to offer substantial benefits to farmers - US farmers have benefited from the introduction of genetically modified crops, according to a new report * published today by the National research Council of the National Academies. Farmers who switched from conventional crops have...

A Surprising Clue to Tourette Syndrome

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A Surprising Clue to Tourette Syndrome - Sufferers of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome are plagued by unwanted movement and verbal tics that range from extra winks and Grimaces involuntary grunts or even curse. Although the disease tends to run in families, little is known about its genetic basis....

Accidental Swap sample 23andMe

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Accidental Swap sample 23andMe - 23andMe has informed customers it wrongly mixed samples of less than 96 people, leaving at least one parent would worry that his daughter had been at birth with another baby. The company has not yet commented publicly error, publishing information only to its customers,...

More Bad News for Diabetes Drug

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More Bad News for Diabetes Drug - Criticism of Avandia diabetes therapy reached its climax. The drug has been in the spotlight since 07, when it was linked to heart attacks. Yesterday, two new results analysis studies for hundreds of thousands of people have reaffirmed that the drug can be dangerous...

Injunction Leaves stem cell researchers in Limbo Legal

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Injunction Leaves stem cell researchers in Limbo Legal - The decision of the court yesterday temporarily blocking federal funding for work with human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) left researchers working with cells in limbo government lawyers decide how to react. Judge Royce Lamberth of the US...

Legal analysis: analysis of the case of stem cell

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Legal analysis: analysis of the case of stem cell - Does the human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research violating the law? And is it logical to stop federal funding of work while the courts weigh this question? Yesterday, the Chief Justice Royce Lamberth of the US District Court in Washington ruled...

IVF Pioneer Wins Nobel Medicine

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IVF Pioneer Wins Nobel Medicine - The father of in vitro fertilization (IVF) won the Nobel Prize this year in physiology or medicine. Robert G. Edwards, professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, U.K., is the only prize winner. "His achievements have helped treat infertility, a medical condition...

Questions Persist With NIH Genetic Testing Registry

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Questions Persist With NIH Genetic Testing Registry - WASHINGTON, DC .- Tens of geneticists have shown at a public meeting today at the center one day conference here and expressed concern about a planned register of genetic testing administered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The gathering,...

Howard Hughes to launch new Labs researchers abroad

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Howard Hughes to launch new Labs researchers abroad - The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today announced a new competition to help scientists born abroad trained in the United States are building research programs after they return to their country of origin. early career scientists from...

brain scan may Dominated Jury Sentencing Convicted Murderer

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brain scan may Dominated Jury Sentencing Convicted Murderer - Testimony on the brain activity of a convicted murderer may have saved him from the death penalty. Earlier this month, a Miami jury rejected the death penalty and chose life in prison for Grady Nelson, who in 05 stabbed his wife 61 times,...

A universal marker for tumor cells?

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A universal marker for tumor cells? - Cancer researchers have discovered a new genetic abnormality in tumor cells that distinguishes them from normal cells. In mice and humans, the angled cancer cells in large quantities of a specific type of RNA that has been ignored so far. This discovery could...

US Bioethics Panel to consider clinical trials around the world

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US Bioethics Panel to consider clinical trials around the world - Driven by concerns about a US-sponsored study ethics in the 1940s, bioethics advisers to President Barack Obama formed an international panel today will consider whether current rules adequately protect volunteers in global clinical...

What is the current radiation threat to food and water in Japan?

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What is the current radiation threat to food and water in Japan? - Health concerns have increased in Japan after the government found unacceptable levels of radiation in milk and vegetables from several regions and in drinking water Tokyo. The radiation comes from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...

"Mosquito Disease-Proof 'could spread like Wildfire

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"Mosquito Disease-Proof 'could spread like Wildfire - Suppose you are one of many scientists racing to design mosquitoes unable to transmit malaria or other major scourge and you succeed. Now what? You can free the creatures in the real world, but if they are not a unique advantage, they are largely...

UN forces introduced cholera in Haiti, Panel concludes

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UN forces introduced cholera in Haiti, Panel concludes - Back to the source. the "black" open water pit where wastewater from the Nepalese camp was spilled twice a week. Final Report of the Independent Panel on the cholera outbreak in Haiti evidence "overwhelmingly"...
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