Archive for February 2021

UPDATE: In a rare gesture, science without the consent of the authors Paper Retracts Virus Tied This mouse for chronic fatigue syndrome

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UPDATE: In a rare gesture, science without the consent of the authors Paper Retracts Virus Tied This mouse for chronic fatigue syndrome - After enduring more than 2 years criticism that included evidence of contamination and misrepresentation of data, a science paper that linked a mouse retrovirus...

Scrambling NIH Shift $ 50 million in Alzheimer's research

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Scrambling NIH Shift $ 50 million in Alzheimer's research - Yesterday, the Obama administration announced that it wants to strengthen national investment Institutes (NIH) of the health research on Alzheimer's disease with $ 80 million in new funding in the budget proposal of the President for 2013...

New NIH database brings clarity to genetic testing

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New NIH database brings clarity to genetic testing - Hoping to dispel confusion about the increasing confusion of genetic testing, the National Institutes of Health (NIH ) today unveiled a new database that lists thousands of tests voluntarily submitted by companies and non-profit laboratories. ...

Supreme Court rejects key patents Biotech

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Supreme Court rejects key patents Biotech - In a unanimous opinion today, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected the patents behind a diagnostic test sold by Prometheus Laboratories San Diego, California. The decision was a blow to the biotech company and a win for a test laboratory linked...

Plasma Flashlight zaps bacteria

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Plasma Flashlight zaps bacteria - therapy . A flashlight portable plasma can kill bacteria in minutes. (Credit :. X. Pei et al Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics ) X. Pei et al, Journal of Physics D :. Applied Physics (2012) Kill harmful bacteria in...

Just a spoonful of castor oil

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Just a spoonful of castor oil - castor oil can have a bad reputation among the people who were force-fed spoonfuls like children, but it is not a myth that tonic has health effects. Today, scientists have elucidated the molecular mechanism of the active ingredient in castor oil, which has been used...

Escape reveal colon cancer

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Escape reveal colon cancer - Road The researchers understand why a popular therapy for the treatment of colon cancer often eventually stops working: The tumors naturally carry genetic changes that allow certain their cells to evade the drugs and continue to grow. The good news is that doctors may...

Shooting polio workers in Pakistan

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Shooting polio workers in Pakistan - A man working for the World health Organization (WHO) on the campaign to eradicate polio was shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan, on the evening of 20 July. Muhammad Ishaq was shot outside his clinic in a slum in Karachi rough known...

Amgen Cancer Drug Pulls

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Amgen Cancer Drug Pulls - Hardy. Pancreatic cancer often thwarts drugs, including one by Amgen that just failed. Wikimedia / KGH The failure of treatment of pancreatic cancer, announced Wednesday by its manufacturer Amgen, is yet another sign that a class...

NIH Looks In New Translational Center Chief

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NIH Looks In New Translational Center Chief - National Institutes of Health's new Translational Research Center (NIH) has its first head: Christopher Austin, a neurologist and former Merck researcher led drug discovery efforts at NIH for the last 10 years. The NIH Director Francis Collins announced...

Who sees the risk of cancer Minimal From Fukushima Accident

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Who sees the risk of cancer Minimal From Fukushima Accident - The World Health Organization (WHO) today released a report saying that the Fukushima nuclear disaster will cause no increase observable in cancer rates among residents of other countries and very small increased risk of cancer among residents...

Chip Detects Rogue Cancer Cells Miniature

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Chip Detects Rogue Cancer Cells Miniature - needle in a haystack. a cancer cell ( left ) can cause havoc if it enters the bloodstream. Researchers use micro-scale instruments ( right ) to remove the cancer cells in blood samples. (left) Emre Ozkumur; (Right)...

Sepsis candidate drug could prevent flu

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Sepsis candidate drug could prevent flu - Death Excluding options. in some severe cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 09, the virus was resistant against all viral compounds, leaving doctors without medicines. Zhang Xiaowei / Xinhua / Newscom The 1918 Spanish...

Images mislabeled bedevil Landmark Paper Cloning

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Images mislabeled bedevil Landmark Paper Cloning - On defense. said Shoukhrat Mitalipov errors in the cloning paper invalidate the results Oregon Health & Science University. One day after a prominent paper in the journal Cell was reported for image...

Is a Slim Physics Contagious?

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Is a Slim Physics Contagious? - What makes some people thin and other full-figured? Besides diet and genetics, the community of microbes that lives inside of us may be partly responsible. New research on twins suggests that lean people harbor bacteria than their obese counterparts do not. And, given...

How Beefs Up the Brain exercise

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How Beefs Up the Brain exercise - mind over matter. new research explains how abstract benefits of exercise-reverse depression in the fight against cognitive decline, could come from a group of key molecules. iStockphoto / Thinkstock Although our muscles...

A New Reason Why Newborns can not fight colds

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A New Reason Why Newborns can not fight colds - adaptation to the world. A new study suggests newborns suppress their immune system to stay healthy while bacteria colonize their gut. iStockphoto / Thinkstock One of the biggest vulnerabilities of infants is...
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