Archive for May 2019

Danish Archipelago launches mass sequencing plan

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Danish Archipelago launches mass sequencing plan - Far out. The entire Faroese population can have its genome sequenced free Wikimedia Commons / TUBS inhabitants of the Faroe Islands could become the first World population to offer whole genome sequencing...

National University of Singapore Clears Ito Misconduct Charge

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National University of Singapore Clears Ito Misconduct Charge - The National University of Singapore (NUS) today announced that it has found no evidence of research misconduct by Yoshiaki Ito, a high-profile cancer researcher accused of manufacturing data. However, the conclusion does not resolve...

Plan B Decision Ignores solid science, said FDA Head

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Plan B Decision Ignores solid science, said FDA Head - The Obama administration took power with the promise that the policy would not trump science, but many say now that he has not always lived up to this commitment. Fallout continues today to yesterday's announcement of emergency contraception...

An NIH budget Apartment in 2013

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An NIH budget Apartment in 2013 - There is little to encourage biomedical researchers in the budget proposal the president released today: the proposal would take the National Institutes of budget (NIH ) health at current levels of $ 30,860,000,000. While the budgets of most of the 27 NIH institutes...

Daylight at Last for lung cancer study Risks Diesel

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Daylight at Last for lung cancer study Risks Diesel - After 20 years of research and almost as many years of defense industry groups to court for control of their data , government scientists can finally publish two documents showing that miners exposed to diesel fumes have an increased risk for...

Biobanks asked to help Deliver Bad (genetic) New

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Biobanks asked to help Deliver Bad (genetic) New - National Institutes of Health last year, as part of our coverage of the 10th anniversary of the human genome science took a long look at the ethical dilemmas facing geneticists when they search on the given...

Flu moratorium should continue research, Fauci said

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Flu moratorium should continue research, Fauci said - Although the statement on whether to publish two studies of H5N1 bird flu controversy appears to be declining, researchers must continue conform to a voluntary moratorium on certain types of studies of the virus, a senior US science official said...

Live Chat: Nanotechnology Is the Future of Medicine

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Live Chat: Nanotechnology Is the Future of Medicine - See below for the chat box ?. Join us every Thursday at 15 pm EDT for a live conversation with scientists and experts worldwide. Today Topic Nanotechnology, the science of manipulating the very, very small, could revolutionize...

Live Chat: The Science of transplant organs

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Live Chat: The Science of transplant organs - See below for the chat box. Join us every Thursday at 15 pm EDT for a live conversation with scientists and experts worldwide. Today Topic Our immune system keeps us free from harmful bacteria and viruses. But he also treats a...

Flushing Out Drug Users

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Flushing Out Drug Users - Tabloid journalists-have long Known That You can discover dirty secrets by going through people's garbage. Now, Researchers-have done something similar in the name of science, we Albeit grander-scale-and smellier. They-have Analyzed the sewage of 19 European cities to find...

"The pill" for men is closer to reality

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"The pill" for men is closer to reality - There may be new hope in the search for "the pill" for men, a male contraceptive that would more effective than condoms and more easily reversible than vasectomy. A compound called JQ1, which was originally developed as a cancer therapy, can also cause reversible...

Progeria Trial Gets Mixed Reviews

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Progeria Trial Gets Mixed Reviews - Treaty. Children with progeria brandish trophies after completing 2 years of a clinical trial for lonafarnib now reported to prolong the lifespan. The Progeria Foundation in 1998, toddler son Leslie Gordon Sam was diagnosed...

Sticks discredited stem cell researcher at the Japanese claim

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Sticks discredited stem cell researcher at the Japanese claim - The day after his disciplinary dismissal of Tokyo University for "damaging the honor or the university's credibility "Hisashi Moriguchi maintained in an interview with science Insider that he has really contributed to a revolutionary...

Another blow to polio eradication in Pakistan

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Another blow to polio eradication in Pakistan - Like the program of the Pakistan polio has made significant progress in the fight to eradicate the disease, he was hit by a devastating bout of violence. Six workers of the vaccination campaign were killed yesterday and today, and two others were injured...

Health is your country?

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Health is your country? - Would you compare the impact of smoking in Estonia and Argentina? A massive release of data today by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, Seattle, allows thousands of other comparisons of health data from 187 countries over...

Dengue cases three times as thought

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Dengue cases three times as thought - danger zones red areas are at high risk of developing dengue. green areas are low risk. Jane Messina The red of the area that you live on the map to the right, the greater the risk of contracting dengue, a painful viral...

Gene Therapy ... against the flu?

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Gene Therapy ... against the flu? - in 09, a global collaboration of scientists, public health agencies and businesses ran to make a vaccine against a pandemic flu virus, but the majority was not ready until the pandemic had peaked. Now, researchers have developed...
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