Archive for August 2020

"End of Homeopathy NHS," Say British MPs

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"End of Homeopathy NHS," Say British MPs - In a report published today, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee of the UK decided that homeopathy is nothing more than a placebo and should not be provided by the National health Service, as it has been since its establishment in 1948....

Israel intensifies its efforts to bring science Expat

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Israel intensifies its efforts to bring science Expat - The Israeli government passed a $ 350 million plan to attract new scientific working abroad, Israeli media reported yesterday. According to Haaretz , the system will create 30 academic centers of excellence to attract scientists currently working...

New Peptide help break cancer drugs against tumors in

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New Peptide help break cancer drugs against tumors in - All drugs against cancer share a problem: They penetrate only a few cells in the tumor. Now a team of biologists has identified a molecule that helps cancer treatments deep into tumors, at least in mice. The approach has yet to be tested in...

More News Genome-analysis of studies dustup

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More News Genome-analysis of studies dustup - A hard takedown of a popular type of the study of human genetics in the pages of Cell has generated reviews online chatter, and at least one researcher plans to submit a response to the review. Jon McClellan psychiatrist and geneticist Mary-Claire King,...

ScienceShot: Snails on Speed ​​

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ScienceShot: Snails on Speed ​​ - oxymoron Talk: A snail on speed. No, the researchers were not trying to make gastropods glide faster, they have tried to improve their memories. When the great snail pond ( Lymnaea stagnalis ) wades through the water poor in oxygen, it extends a special tube to the...

Recipe for the disease: a gene and a virus

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Recipe for the disease: a gene and a virus - Many of us carry genes for diseases that we will never get. Take Crohn's disease, an autoimmune disease that attacks the digestive system: Well over half of the population holds at least a genetic variant linked to Crohn's disease, but only a fraction...

FDA panel gives Avandia a thumbs down Described

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FDA panel gives Avandia a thumbs down Described - Two days of complex statistical and sometimes convoluted debate on the drug against diabetes Avandia ended today, but left his ultimate fate uncertain. A joint committee of endocrinology, drug safety, and diabetes experts advising the Food and Drug...

FDA, Europe Curb Diabetes Drug Risky

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FDA, Europe Curb Diabetes Drug Risky - The United States and Europe are both greatly restrict the use of the drug against the Avandia diabetes, culminating several years of concern the drug increases the risk of heart problems. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) taking Avandia from the market, while...

NIH Scientists Show Crackdown on too restrictive consultation

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NIH Scientists Show Crackdown on too restrictive consultation - There are five years after a scandal erupted on employees who consulted for drug companies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) banned most of these relationships by scientists internally. A new study mixed effects. The rules do...

Dutch government faulted in Massive disease outbreak

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Dutch government faulted in Massive disease outbreak - Under control. After explosive growth in 08 and 09, cases of Q fever (shown per week) have reported dropped sharply in 2010. Frederika Dijkstra (RIVM / CIb / EPI) AMSTERDAM -The Dutch government failed...

Collins plan to reshuffle NIH Draws More Flak

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Collins plan to reshuffle NIH Draws More Flak - The revolt spreads against a plan by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins to create a new center on medicine translational by reallocating bits of the existing $ 31 billion agency. Today, the top advisory body to the National...

Pinched CDC Budget focuses on preventing chronic diseases

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Pinched CDC Budget focuses on preventing chronic diseases - The purse strings are tightening in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which already seen the budget decreased in recent years. discretionary budget request for the agency in 2012 will dip to $ 5.89 billion, down from...

Little protection for people on the front lines

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Little protection for people on the front lines - With mounting fears over the spread of radiation from nuclear power plants damaged by Japan, the most at risk are those try the more difficult to contain. The New York Times called the skeleton crews of workers and soldiers inside plants "may...

New Effort Launched vaccine research as a lawyer Steps down

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New Effort Launched vaccine research as a lawyer Steps down - revolving door to the world of vaccine took a quick tour today as the head of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise has announced his retirement and a new foundation for vaccine research was born. Alan Bernstein, who took the reins at the...

Diabetes Pill Deaths Prompt French Drug Regulatory reform

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Diabetes Pill Deaths Prompt French Drug Regulatory reform - PARIS- say he hopes to avoid a repeat of the scandal Mediator, the French Health Minister Xavier Bertrand today unveiled what he described as the biggest overhaul to the drug regulatory system ever undertaken in the country. Bertrand was...

Breast Cancer Drug Gets Unanimous Thumbs Down

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Breast Cancer Drug Gets Unanimous Thumbs Down - SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND -An advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sided with this afternoon the organization, agreeing in a unanimous vote, 6-0, the drug Avastin should not be approved for breast cancer. Although the FDA...

Longevity Sciences Paper Retracted

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Longevity Sciences Paper Retracted - The authors of a controversial genetic article published last year in Science published a retraction today, recognizing "technical errors" in their investigation gene strategy. The work, led by Paola Sebastiani and Thomas Perls of Boston University, claimed...

Sperm Made (Mostly) in a flat Produce normal mouse

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Sperm Made (Mostly) in a flat Produce normal mouse - Scientists have long wanted to produce sperm and eggs in the laboratory to not only better understand this process of fundamental reproduction, but also to discover new ways to help infertile couples conceive. Using embryonic stem (ES) cells, which...

Insides Target Cancer Antibody

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Insides Target Cancer Antibody - Inside job. When mice with cancer cells which have a green fluorescent protein within them were given antibody against GFP, they have developed less lung tumors compared to control mice ( left ). Ke Guo et al., Science Translational...

Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV

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Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV - unreceptive welcome. CripplingCCR5 receivers can block cell doors to HIV. Illustration by Katharine Sutliff / Science Last year, a man from Berlin, Timothy Brown, became world famous as the first and so far only person to have...

Connecticut offers $ 291 million to the Land Branch Jackson Lab

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Connecticut offers $ 291 million to the Land Branch Jackson Lab - Connecticut offers pony up $ 291 million to help open a new branch of The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), an institute more known genetic research as the primary mouse breeder to scientific research. Today, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy...

Overweight? Reset Neighbourhoods

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Overweight? Reset Neighbourhoods - Health in the 'hood. people who were moved to richer areas ( left ) poor neighborhoods ( right ) in Chicago has become less obese and healthier Fotosearch (left). Image courtesy of Sean Parnell (right) If you started to...
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