Archive for December 2018

Hair Cut From

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Hair Cut From - most, hairy. The mice grew new follicles - and new hair (white) - after injury healed Mayumi Ito / University of Pennsylvania Desperate. bald should not try at home, but the researchers found that mice will regrow hair, not only the skin,...

Small Molecules, Big Problem

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Small Molecules, Big Problem - foreign invasion. aggressive breast cancer cells (fluorescent spots) have spread in the lung of a mouse. Li Ma / Whitehead Institute A new study has found that a small molecule can trigger breast cancer cells to go on a rampage...

Preserved human ancestor stone

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Preserved human ancestor stone - Pierre man. This partial skull of a man 500,000 years was found in a travertine slab of a career like this in Turkey. John Kappelman / University of Texas, Austin workers of travertine plant near Denizli, Turkey, were recently...

New map for malaria

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New map for malaria - Catching malaria. Most recent map of malaria worldwide, dark red indicates the greatest risk of disease. Project and Malaria Atlas PLoS Medicine About $ 1 billion a year goes into malaria treatment and prevention, but money hitting...

Genome Institute chief Step Down

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Genome Institute chief Step Down - out. Francis Collins resigns at NHGRI. Maggie Bartlett / NHGRI Francis Collins, the medical researcher perhaps best known for steering the Human Genome Project, is stepping down as director the National Human Genome Research...

Stem Cell Breakthrough ALS research

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Stem Cell Breakthrough ALS research - cells go. iPS cells show telltale signs of motor neurons. J. T. Dimos et al. Science express Scientists say they have demonstrated the viability of a new way of studying the disease using a patient's own cells. Yesterday,...

A breath Viral From the Past

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A breath Viral From the Past - The hot wax. A cache of ancient tissue samples from Kinshasa - stored in paraffin - including one from 1960 that was infected by HIV. Dirk Teuwen The second oldest specimen ever discovered HIV has postponed the date of the virus...

Senator new target: a former director of NIMH

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Senator new target: a former director of NIMH - Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has landed another big name in its probe of financial conflicts of interest in science . Today New York Times reports on the investigation Grassley psychiatrist Frederick Goodwin, former director of the National Institute...

psychological testing for researchers? On biological agents

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psychological testing for researchers? On biological agents - If academics working on dangerous pathogens must undergo periodic psychological assessments to ensure they are not mentally unbalanced as US army researcher Bruce Ivins seems to have had? At present, they are not. But the question was...

Harvard Med is cracking the whip

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Harvard Med is cracking the whip - As Massachusetts General Hospital and the Senate of the United States to investigate allegations of conflict of interest, Harvard Medical School has appointed a committee to review its rules governing conflicts. Of The Boston Globe US Senator Charles E. Grassley,...

Obama vs. Bush: Yes, climate change is unhealthy

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Obama vs. Bush: Yes, climate change is unhealthy - Howard Frumkin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works today on climate change impacts on health. Recall that in October 07, the last time CDC gave a testimony on this...

A fight on open access and patent reform

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A fight on open access and patent reform - Here is an overview of some of the stories of science policy, we covered last week on science political blog the science Insider: in open access news, the powerful chairman of the US House of representatives judiciary...

Bioethics Panel Probes Medical Tests Marketed

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Bioethics Panel Probes Medical Tests Marketed - ordinary people can now try to be masters of their own health, as private companies offer online DNA testing and CT or whole body MRI. But these services often offer health information without the advice of a doctor, have generated much controversy...

Swine flu spreads, but gravity and genetics Remain Murky

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Swine flu spreads, but gravity and genetics Remain Murky - Although the spread of swine flu appears to be accelerating and the virus begins to dominate global headlines the-World Organisation health (WHO) stopped short catch the pandemic alert level this weekend, even if she can do it on Monday or...

Swine flu could come from America?

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Swine flu could come from America? - HIV / AIDS could shed light on the origins of the swine flu. And what it shows overturns the common wisdom. study A 04 asked where Mexicans who emigrated to California for seasonal agricultural work have been infected with HIV. It turned out that more migrants...

Look closest Yet outbreaks in Mexico and one N.Y.C.

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Look closest Yet outbreaks in Mexico and one N.Y.C. - School The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ( MMWR ) published two dispatches that offer the most detailed look yet at two homes what is now called swine associated with H1N1. A report focuses on Mexico and the other on a school in New...

Even Hotel, Different Virus

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Even Hotel, Different Virus - The Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong Kowloon district became notorious in 03 when a doctor from mainland China, SARS patients, infected others who carried the virus in Canada, Singapore and Vietnam. The Metropole is back in the news, now it is known as Metropark and problems...

New Drug Pipeline NIH for neglected diseases

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New Drug Pipeline NIH for neglected diseases - The National Institutes of Health, a bastion of basic research, made a foray into drug development. NIH leaders today announced a 5-year plan of $ 0 million to set up a drug development services center at the agency. Chemists and toxicologists from the...

CDC flu too optimistic Peak?

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CDC flu too optimistic Peak? - May 26, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that the swine flu outbreak in the country could have crested. But Donald Olson, an epidemiologist based in New York City who heads the influenza surveillance project...

With New FDA to expand role of tobacco

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With New FDA to expand role of tobacco - The Senate today voted 79-17 to approve a landmark bill tobacco that President Barack Obama said he sign once it is reconciled with a house of representatives measure. The bill, for the first time, empower the FDA to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products,...

Researchers satisfied Final Rules Stem Cell

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Researchers satisfied Final Rules Stem Cell - Scientists have expressed their satisfaction with the final guidelines on research with human embryonic stem cells (ES) issued today by the National Institutes of Health. The new rules, which set the criteria for determining the ES cell lines can be...

Advisory Panel urges vaccination program against swine flu US

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Advisory Panel urges vaccination program against swine flu US - At a meeting described as "urgent" today in Atlanta, Georgia, the Advisory Committee on Practices immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that the launch of the US government vaccination program against the virus H1N1, 09. 15 member...

Group Sues Pro-embryo NIH policy on stem Cell

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Group Sues Pro-embryo NIH policy on stem Cell - A Christian group has filed a lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health, alleging that the policy on stem cell administration Obama violates federal law, reports the online journal Kansas Liberty.com . The complaint was filed with the Federal...

Early famous HHS Flu Vaccine Results

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Early famous HHS Flu Vaccine Results - Swine In an effort to allay growing concerns about the swine flu pandemic, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released all the stops today spread the news that one dose of a vaccine against the new H1N1 virus is likely to protect adults. ...

A connection between sleep and Alzheimer's disease?

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A connection between sleep and Alzheimer's disease? - You should not stay up all night worrying, but a new study has found a link between lack of sleep and a biomolecule thought to be important in the development of the disease Alzheimer. in humans and mice, the levels of a peptide called amyloid-β...
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