Archive for October 2021

Congress considers the risks of synthetic biology, benefits

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Congress considers the risks of synthetic biology, benefits - A week after J. Craig Venter announced the successful synthesis of a genome and use it to control a cell self- replication, it was on the microphone again, this time to appear before the Committee of the US House energy and commerce. With...

Stopping stem cells Snake Oil

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Stopping stem cells Snake Oil - SAN FRANCISCO, California- Clinical peddling unproven treatments stem cells are on the warnings of the International Society for research on stem cells (ISSCR). The company has talked for years against the purveyors of dubious therapies that have a scientific basis...

Drugs + mosquito = antimalarial vaccine?

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Drugs + mosquito = antimalarial vaccine? - Scientists have been working for decades to develop a vaccine against malaria but the Plasmodium parasite is a formidable enemy. Although a promising vaccine finally reached clinical trials terminal, it provides only partial protection against the disease,...

"Band-Aids" Bad Bloodstream of Lupus

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"Band-Aids" Bad Bloodstream of Lupus - The cells of blood coagulation called platelets are generally good, stanching wounds so that we not bleed to death. But for people with lupus, the cells are wicked that aggravate the disease, according to a new study. The work also suggests that a commonly prescribed...

Lasker Award Honor Key Signaling Molecules work

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Lasker Award Honor Key Signaling Molecules work - Four scientists have won a Lasker prize for work that includes the discovery of a hormone appetite mediation and discover a protein that stimulates the growth of blood vessels. The Laskers are generally considered the most prestigious award in the...

Malaria in India may be 13 times worse than Feared

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Malaria in India may be 13 times worse than Feared - The number of people who die each year of malaria in India may be 13 times higher than currently estimated, according to a study published online today in The Lancet . As with all estimates of malaria deaths, however, some researchers are skeptical...

Sherley Institute asks government support in Stem Cell Suit

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Sherley Institute asks government support in Stem Cell Suit - In an ironic twist, the institute which employs James Sherley, one of two scientists who pursued to block research on stem cells financed by the federal government, is weighing on the other side. Today the Boston Biomedical Research Institute...

Minnesota bioethicists Critique Their

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Minnesota bioethicists Critique Their - University Eight bioethicists at the University of Minnesota are charging their own institution committed an "alarming series of ethical violations" in a clinical trial where a young man committed suicide in 04. the eight, including nearly half of the faculty...

Is the Alzheimer written in blood?

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Is the Alzheimer written in blood? - Wherever he is buried in the body, illness leaves traces in the blood, or so the thinking goes. But finding these biomarkers, which can help catch the disease early on, was a futile exercise, with a promising candidate after another lose its luster once it receives...

Preparatory Questions CDC PrEP orientation

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Preparatory Questions CDC PrEP orientation - CDC in November when the researchers revealed positive results of the first large-scale trial of anti-HIV drugs to prevent the sexual transmission of virus, a barrage of questions immediately surfaced on how best to...

Second Chance for candidates NIH Grant

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Second Chance for candidates NIH Grant - Have you missed the funding cut despite a stellar score on your U.S. National Institutes of Health grant (NIH)? Do not give up hope. The National Health Council (NHC), a nonprofit umbrella group based in Washington DC, to some 100 groups of patients and companies,...

Cancer diagnosis by Smart Phone

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Cancer diagnosis by Smart Phone - Would you know if you have cancer? There may soon be an app for that. Cancer researchers have developed a small device that, using a smart phone could allow physicians to know within 60 minutes if a suspicious mass in a patient is cancerous or benign. Instead of...

Chernobyl can teach Japan on limiting exposure to radiation

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Chernobyl can teach Japan on limiting exposure to radiation - As workers struggle with damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, the potential risk of more radiation will be released remains unknown. But the events unfolding since Friday earthquake gave those responsible for public health time to...

In Memoriam: Baruch Blumberg, Scientific moving

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In Memoriam: Baruch Blumberg, Scientific moving - Baruch Blumberg, who went by the nickname Barry, is best known for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for discovering hepatitis B virus and development of a vaccine against this disease. But he often lived life away from the...

Paralyzed Man Shows Recovery remarkable

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Paralyzed Man Shows Recovery remarkable - Reason to smile. stimulation of the injured spinal cord of Rob Summers has restored a voluntary movement. The Lancet there Five years, Rob Summers was 20 years old and about to enter his first year State University...

Researchers Coax hearts to heal

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Researchers Coax hearts to heal - heart attacks kill because they are strangling the heart muscle cell destruction and preventing the body to pump properly. Now, researchers reveal they have nudged cells in mouse hearts to repair some of the damage, a finding that could lead to new treatments for...

Insider To Take Over Troubled Cancer Institute Spanish

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Insider To Take Over Troubled Cancer Institute Spanish - Maria Blasco Courtesy of Life Length Spanish molecular biologist María Blasco, 45, will take the leadership of Spanish National Centre for cancer research (CNIO) in Madrid, where she is now a deputy director....

The new drug hope for 'aging' children

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The new drug hope for 'aging' children - A drug approved for the treatment of cancer and prevent rejection of transplanted organs can also help children with progeria, a disease that resembles accelerated aging and typically kills those who are afflicted by their teenagers-a new study. The effects...

Will Embrace NIH Biomedical Research Award?

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Will Embrace NIH Biomedical Research Award? - Centuries after the British government offered up to £ 20,000 for those who have developed a precise method for determining longitude British cabinetmaker a ship won with his invention of great price-clock precision for scientific or technical achievements...

HIV widespread in the Middle East men who have sex with men

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HIV widespread in the Middle East men who have sex with men - In most people in the Middle East and North Africa who have sex with men (MSM ) face severe stigma and harsh laws, creating a hidden population that researchers of HIV / AIDS and social workers have difficulty reaching. Now, review the...

Mental patients fusion Disabled With Robots

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Mental patients fusion Disabled With Robots - They are not quite psychic yet, but the machines are better at reading your mind. Researchers have invented a new noninvasive method for recording brain activity patterns and use them to direct a robot. Scientists hope that technology will give "locked...

New head of the Basic Research Institute of NIH

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New head of the Basic Research Institute of NIH - The new head NIGMS Chris Kaiser. Patrick Gillooly / MIT National Health fundamental research Institutes (NIH) Institute has a new director. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cell biologist Chris Kaiser...

Genes unmuffled Slow Down Lung Cancer

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Genes unmuffled Slow Down Lung Cancer - A new approach for the treatment of lung cancer, which aims to activate dormant blocking tumor genes has shown promising results in a small clinical trial. The 45 patients on average lived a few months longer than they would have without treatment, and tumors...
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