Archive for September 2020

A One-Two Punch against sleeping sickness

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A One-Two Punch against sleeping sickness - long slog. In Uganda patient is treated with eflornithine, which requires intravenous infusion every 6 hours for 14 days. Andy Crump / WHO NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - This is far from the ideal therapy, but scientists...

Genomicists Canadian Lament Cuts

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Genomicists Canadian Lament Cuts - Researchers funded by Genome Canada, Canadian excellence by funding organization in large-scale genomics and proteomics research, react with shock to the news that the Canadian government withdraws funds from the 9-year-old organization. The Government states that...

Permanent protection against the flu?

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Permanent protection against the flu? - Open wide. The hemagglutinin protein on the surface of an influenza virus allows it to enter into a cell. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology , advance online publication (22 February 09) If you had the flu...

Stem Cell Roundup decision

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Stem Cell Roundup decision - (Update: President Obama signed an executive order lifting the federal restrictions on funding for stem cells) the Washington post has a good primer on stem cell policy, and New York Times reports that President Obama will avoid issuing an opinion on the controversial...

How TB convince patients to take their medication?

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How TB convince patients to take their medication? - Pay them. But how do you know they did it? public health experts have long struggled to convince TB patients resistant to drugs to continue taking their drugs after they get better to eradicate resistant strains. But the monitoring of compliance...

Notices can travel Halt a virus?

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Notices can travel Halt a virus? - This is a question on the lips of everyone these days, with governments issuing contradictory warnings about avoiding the countries affected by swine flu. But travelers as nervous reconsider the planned Mexican vacation, officials of the World Health Organization...

This soothing voice on the swine flu

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This soothing voice on the swine flu - For healthcare organizations who fight against swine flu (recently renamed H1N1), it is a delicate balance: Be honest and clear without triggering panic. Officials of the World Health Organization, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and its European...

Pandemic: High-Tech vaccines against influenza coming

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Pandemic: High-Tech vaccines against influenza coming - The threat of H1N1 swine flu appears to be easing, but the virus could come roaring back later in the year, and experts are now debating whether to produce a vaccine against pandemic influenza. A key problem is that almost all the vaccine against...

Is it a pandemic a pandemic?

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Is it a pandemic a pandemic? - Effect Measure, a lively and popular blog written by anonymous public health scientists / practitioners, has an entertaining riff on the confusion over whether to call the swine flu outbreak ' a pandemic. "The argument boils down to this," write the authors of the measure...

marmosets Report for Duty Lab

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marmosets Report for Duty Lab - Glowing discovery. These baby marmosets are home to a foreign gene introduced first in their parents Hideyuki Okano / Keio University. Erika Sasaki / CIEA marmosets whose skin turns green under ultraviolet light can take a...

academic groups say more drugs links must be reported

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academic groups say more drugs links must be reported - For the past year, the biomedical research community of the United States was rocked by a Senate probe revealing that several prominent researchers failed to disclose properly heavy payments they received from drug companies. The National Institutes...

FDA Mulls a new experience: an opening

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FDA Mulls a new experience: an opening - More than two dozen speakers, including an expert in dietary supplement and breast cancer advocate, vented frustrations today a lack of long-time transparency to the US Food and Drug Association. The unusual gathering, held in Washington, and webcast, is the...

Fears that funding for HIV / AIDS will decrease

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Fears that funding for HIV / AIDS will decrease - A survey of people working on HIV / AIDS in 71 countries in various forms of the United Nations have found that 31% expect the global financial crisis will impact the ability to provide antiretroviral treatment. These 71 countries have 3.4 million...

Pandemic H1N1 in Canadian pigs Odd Smells

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Pandemic H1N1 in Canadian pigs Odd Smells - Since Canadian officials announced in May that pigs on an Alberta farm housed the new H1N1 virus that causes the swine flu outbreak, scientists have struggled to explain its origins. Researchers had hoped scrutiny swine virus isolates clarify things, but...

Only 1.4% for Boost From NIH Panel Senate

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Only 1.4% for Boost From NIH Panel Senate - A Senate spending panel equaled the request of President Barack Obama to the National Institutes of Health funding in 2010, a coup inch $ 442 million to $ 31.8 billion. This slight bump of 1.4% is less than half of the increase in the House of Representatives...

PNAS Submission Rules Changes, cancer researcher Sued

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PNAS Submission Rules Changes, cancer researcher Sued - Here is an overview of some of the stories that we followed on science political blog of science insider: on Proceedings of the national Academy of sciences will be stop a submission option for members,...

Samples of suspected plague in scientific died

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Samples of suspected plague in scientific died - An autopsy last week revealed that a geneticist who died mysteriously have succumbed to the plague. Malcolm Casadaban, 60, studied a weakened form and would benign bacterium responsible for plague, Yersinia pestis in his laboratory at the University...

Hurry Up and Wait Kansas Agri-Bio Lab

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Hurry Up and Wait Kansas Agri-Bio Lab - A Homeland Security Bill spending that received final congressional approval yesterday will give the Department of Homeland Security 32 million $ next year to continue planning the National Facility Bio and Agri-Defense in Manhattan, Kansas. But the construction...

Roundup 10/23: The Future So Bright Edition

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Roundup 10/23: The Future So Bright Edition - Derrick Mealiffe / wikimedia commons President Barack Obama has no new initiatives in his today's visit to the Massachusetts Institute of technology, where he highlighted the clean energy technology and the need...

Swine Flu Vaccine Distribution Dilemmas: Hey, You, No Cuts

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Swine Flu Vaccine Distribution Dilemmas: Hey, You, No Cuts - concern seems to be rising in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in groups of people at low risk of cuts online to receive the limited supplies of vaccine against H1N1. A letter sent today CDC Director Thomas Frieden local...

Herpes never sleeps

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Herpes never sleeps - Busybody. A new study suggests that HSV-2, seen here as orange particles, is always active, even when patients do not show symptoms. Dennis Kunkel Microscopy Inc./Visuals Unlimited, Inc. Genital herpes comes and goes - at least that...

London Superlab Gets a plan and design

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London Superlab Gets a plan and design - LONDON -At a press conference today, researchers, government and biomedical charity officials and architects have unveiled the design drawings and a scientific vision for a gigantic laboratory facility here that...

Origin of the Tasmanian devil tumors identified

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Origin of the Tasmanian devil tumors identified - Hard-bitten. When Tasmanian devils bite each other, they can spread a deadly cancer. Tom Brakefiled / Getty Images Tasmanian devils can be fierce, but they are no match for a contagious cancer that decimated...

Busy Bees need a balanced diet

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Busy Bees need a balanced diet - Dirt. The bees just fed a variety of pollen may be less able to sterilize the food in the hive. Alban Maisonnasse The bees worldwide contribute about work worth $ 215 billion to agriculture, with industrial farmers often bringing...

How cancer wreaks havoc on bones

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How cancer wreaks havoc on bones - Rongé. normal bone ( left ) is a solid mass. But relaxin stimulates the body's own cells to eat holes in the (white dot). A similar hormone insulin accelerates the destruction of the bone caused by malignant tumors, a team...
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