Posts tagged medicine

She figured out a way to kill cancer stem cells; that is all.  She won $100,000 for inventing the technology.

Ummmm, can I get that as a generic over the counter?  Don’t think so.

More info at “Researchers Create Glowing Kittens in Fight Against AIDS” via laughing Squid and at the AAAS, but a subscription might be needed for the second link.

“The underlying disease process of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS and Lou Gehrig’s disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims, has long eluded scientists and prevented development of effective therapies. Scientists weren’t even sure all its forms actually converged into a common disease process.

But a new Northwestern Medicine study for the first time has identified a common cause of all forms of ALS.”

The Open Poster Repository for Biology & Medicine

This is an open access repository from the Faculty of 1000.

Since its launch in June 2010, it has grown quite considerably, and now includes posters from over 180 international meetings, with some of our top-performing posters receiving 400-850 views in a month.

From the Discover Magazine Blog on Health and Medicine.

“Many, and possibly most, scientists spend their careers looking for answers where the light is better rather than where the truth is more likely to lie. They don’t always have much choice. It is often extremely difficult or even impossible to cleanly measure what is really important, so scientists instead cleanly measure what they can, hoping it turns out to be relevant.”

“The database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) was developed to archive and distribute the results of studies that have investigated the interaction of genotype and phenotype.”

Also from a press release — “The National Institutes of Health has expanded a genetic and clinical research database to give researchers access to the first digital study images. The National Eye Institute (NEI), in collaboration with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), has made available more than 72,000 lens photographs and fundus photographs of the back of the eye, collected from the participants of the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS).”

The Scientist has two articles covering the controversy surrounding the editorial board and editor of the non-peer-reviewed journal, Medical Hypotheses.

Journal editor facing axe and Radical journal gathers support