Monthly Archives: July 2010

Ben Bova: Gene therapy will one day cure diseases … It’s the ‘law’

They said it couldn’t be done. No less a genius than Leonardo da Vinci tried to design a workable airplane. He got as far as building a couple of gliders and apparently even soared off the roof of a barn … Continue reading →

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Tonight’s Event–and the Morbid Anatomy Library–in the New York Times!

Tonight’s Morbid Anatomy Presents at Observatory event–featuring collector and film-maker Ronni Thomas on “Diableries”– amazing 19th Century 3d stereo ’tissues’ depicting the daily life of Satan and his cohorts (as seen above)–and the Morbid Anatomy Library got a write up … Continue reading →

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N.C. A&T State hosts bioengineering workshop for high schoolers

Twenty high school students are attending a week-long series of workshops where they’re exploring their dreams of helping others through bioengineering.

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Spinning Some Silken Science

Spiders and silkworms make silk by the yard. Why can’t we copy them? Silk is strong, light and flexible and is being examined for use in everything from medical sutures to advanced electronics. Silk researcher David Kaplan explains the challenges … Continue reading →

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3 Top Stocks at Half-Price

Investors still think highly of these companies, despite their fire-sale prices.

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Generex Biotechnology Corp. is Today’s Focus Stock on MicroStockProfit.com

DALLAS — MicroStockProfit.com announces an investment report featuring Generex Biotechnology Corp. . The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and recent company news that you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

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Nanotechnology focus of festival

Will a month-long festival of nanotechnology be a matter of science imitating art or art imitating science?

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Dogs Imitate People

Dogs just can’t help it. They automatically and voluntarily imitate the behavior of their owners, even if it costs them a snack.

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Patients Lose Weight After Total Joint Replacement

Osteoarthritis patients who were also obese lost weight after undergoing total knee or hip replacement surgery, according to a recent study published in Orthopedics.

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Health Reform Law: What It Means for Women

The new health reform law — the Affordable Care Act — bodes well for as many as 30 million women — a number that includes 15 million women who are uninsured, according to a new report.

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Kids Getting in Bed with Parents? Get Children to Sleep in Their Own Beds

WebMD answers common concerns about children who co-sleep with their parents at night and how to help them break the habit and sleep in their own beds.

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Oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy may protect women against brain aneurysms

Results from a new study suggest that oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may yield additional benefit of protecting against the formation and rupture of brain aneurysms in women. The findings from this first-of-its-kind study by a neurointerventional expert … Continue reading →

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Prostate Cancer: A New Ground Zero

A type of prostate cell that has been largely ignored by cancer researchers can, in fact, trigger malignant prostate cancer, according to new studies by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists and their colleagues. HHMI researcher Owen N…

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Ancient DNA Identifies Donkey Ancestors, People Who Domesticated Them

Genetic investigators say the partnership between people and the ancestors of today’s donkeys was sealed not by monarchs trying to establish kingdoms, but by mobile, pastoral people who had to recruit animals to help them survive the harsh Saharan landscape … Continue reading →

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Association For Molecular Pathology Responds To Genetic Test Registry Request For Information

The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) submitted written comments in response to the Request for Information made by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for its Genetic Test Registry (GTR). AMP conducted a survey of its membership to formulate a … Continue reading →

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Researchers Find New Translocation; Weak Spots In DNA Lead To Genetic Disease

A genetics research team based at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia continues to discover recurrent translocations-places in which two chromosomes exchange pieces of themselves. As many as 1 in 600 persons carry balanced chromosome translocations, which involve no loss or … Continue reading →

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Researchers Identify Key Enzyme In DNA Repair Pathway

Researchers have discovered an enzyme crucial to a type of DNA repair that also causes resistance to a class of cancer drugs most commonly used against ovarian cancer…

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DeCODE Shows How Genetic Risk Of Kidney Disease Frames Response To Environmental Risk Over Time

Scientists at deCODE genetics and colleagues at Radboud University in the Netherlands describe how the impact of a single letter variation in the sequence of the human genome (SNP) conferring risk of kidney disease varies with age and with the … Continue reading →

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Choice Of Neurotransmitter Influenced By Electrical Activity In Developing Brain

Cascades of genetic signals determine which neurotransmitter a brain cell will ultimately use to communicate with other cells. Now a pair of reports from biologists at the University of California, San Diego, have shown for the first time that electrical … Continue reading →

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Study Identifies Molecular Mechanism Triggering Parkinson’s Disease

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a molecular pathway responsible for the death of key nerve cells whose loss causes Parkinson’s disease. This discovery not only may explain how a genetic mutation linked to Parkinson’s causes … Continue reading →

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More Misinformation from Alcor’s Chief Medical Advisor

Alcor Life Extension Foundation, of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Suspended Animation, of Boynton Beach, Florida, charge a bundle for procedures based on vascular cannulations and perfusion technology. These are common procedures, in conventional medicine, and anyone qualified to perform those procedures … Continue reading →

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Daily Scholarships – Study Of Analytical Methods For Preparing And …

Therapeutic Areas and Research Programs in the Stem Cell Space : Therapeutic and Other Markets Addressed by Stem Cells , Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs), Stem Cell Therapeutics for Cardiac and Ischemic Diseases , Stem Cell Therapeutics … Go here to … Continue reading →

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CIRM Research Results: Geron to begin stem cell trial for spinal …

CIRM has funded follow-up work by Keirstead and others to improve on this potential therapy and expand the application of these cells to other diseases . Here is Hans Keirstead discussing the long path from basic research to this … … Continue reading →

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Autism in the News – Friday, 07.30.10 « Autism Speaks Official Blog

Autism in the News – Friday, 07.30.10. July 30, 2010 Autism Speaks Leave a comment Go to comments. Original post: Autism in the News – Friday, 07.30.10 « Autism Speaks Official Blog

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Health Reform Law: What It Means for Women « debt settlement,debt …

Stem Cell News. .. More here: Health Reform Law: What It Means for Women « debt settlement,debt …

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