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Industry Wants Key Elements of Obama Administration’s Overhaul Reversed, but Fears the Removal of Coverage Mandate Health-industry groups are pressing to roll back key provisions in the Obama administration’s health-care overhaul if Republicans recapture the House, but they’re also worried that the party could go too far. If they win the House, Republicans have promised [...]
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Too many connections in the frontal lobe of the brain may help explain some of the learning problems experienced by people with autism, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. They said autistic children with a common autism risk gene appear to have a lot of brain connections clustered in the frontal lobe, a part of the [...]
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A new genetic analysis tips the scales to one side of a long-term debate on the evolution of jawless vertebrates [Published 18th October 2010 08:00 PM GMT] Genetic evidence is laying to rest a long-standing argument over the evolution of jawless vertebrates — hagfish and lampreys — and providing insights regarding the common ancestor of [...]
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The biologist, with Dr. Patrick Steptoe, developed techniques that led to the first ‘test tube baby,’ Louise Brown, and millions of other births. In Vitro Fertilization Pioneer, Robert Edwards,…, posted with vodpod
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Botanical Biopharming In 2001, ProdiGene was a poster child for the plant biotechnology industry. A privately owned biotech in College Station, Texas, ProdiGene was the first to successfully commercialize a product made from a transgenic plant—a protein called trypsin produced in corn kernels and sold to the pharmaceutical industry for mammalian cell culturing. They also [...]
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Ozcan’s lensfree cell phone microscope The seeds for electrical engineer Aydogan Ozcan’s latest invention—a lensless microscope that can spot pathogens in blood and water samples in remote areas with no access to other imaging technology—were planted in the shadows. Ozcan first had the idea for lensfree imaging as he sat alone in his lab experimenting [...]
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Some Nerve “My interest in science came from basic curiosity,” says Rodolfo Llinás of the New York University School of Medicine. “My interest in the nervous system came from my grandfather.” As a precocious preschooler, Llinás lived with his paterfamilias, a psychiatrist who ran his practice from home. There, the young boy encountered individuals with [...]
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Some breast cancer tumors may not originate from stem cells as previously believed, according to a study published in the September 3rd issue of Cell Stem Cell. The discovery is an important step in the development of treatments for these cancers. BRCA1 structure Image: Wikimedia commons, Lijealso “Understanding the origins of these types of breast [...]
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A US district judge had issued a ban on some federally-funded embryonic stem cell research. The White House says it’ll quickly appeal the decision. In the meantime, scientists are left in limbo wondering if or when their work can continue. (Aug. 24) Stem cell ruling to be appealed, posted with vodpod
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WASHINGTON — The US Justice Department said Tuesday it will appeal a judge’s decision to block federal funding for stemcell research, risking an election year fight over hot button issues of science and religion. “I can confirm we plan to appeal,” said Tracy Schmaller, a Justice Department spokesperson, adding that the department was “likely to [...]
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In early 2010, some scientists offered their predictions for the new decade which this blog covered in the post, “Scientists Predict: The 2010s Will Be Freakin’ Awesome–With Lasers.” In what could be an early sign of that sunny prognostication coming true, researchers have announced that they’ve controlled the beating of an embryonic heart with an [...]
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Dr. Wes (a cardiology blogger whom all should read) wrote a very compelling post about technology and the bondage it can create for doctors: The devaluation of doctors’ time continues unabated. As we move into our new era of health care delivery with millions more needing physician time (and other health care provider’s time, for [...]
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Heart Tissue You only get so much of it, but researchers are working to help the body regenerate damaged heart cells. Nephron via Wikimedia Perhaps it’s in the nature of regenerative medicine news to multiply. Earlier today stem cell researchers announced the first clinical trial using adult stem cells to treat a spinal cord injury [...]
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Intel and GE will combine health-IT assets to form a company that focuses on providing medical care technologies to the elderly and people with chronic illnesses, the companies announced on Monday… The new company will “tackle chronic diseases and age-related disease,” said Ishrak, who will serve as the company’s chairman. Read complete article in this [...]
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Medical device maker Endologix Inc. said Thursday it received Food and Drug Administration approval for its PowerFit Aortic Extensions stent. Stents are mesh-wire tubes that are used to prop arteries open after they have been surgically cleared of fatty plaque. The device is used in surgery to repair abdominal aortic aneurysms. Shares of Endologix fell [...]
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Nearly a year after the US Food and Drug Administration placed a hold on the first clinical trial of human embryonic stem cells, the company Geron has been cleared to continue its study of spinal cord injury, it announced today (July 30). Human embryonic stem cells Image: Wikimedia commons, Nissim Benvenisty “We are pleased with the FDA’s [...]
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Food & Drug Administration (FDA) plan to work together to get medical device makers and hospitals the spectrum they say they need. The news came in the form of a Memorandum of Understanding signed by FCC chair Julius Genachowski (right) and FDA administrator Margaret Hamburg. The move comes less [...]
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#1 Neurons complete hippocampus loop There’s a new, important function for a once-obscure cell population in the brain: CA2 pyramidal neurons, a subset of cells in the hippocampus, form a link between electrical inputs and outputs in the hippocampus. V. Chevaleye et al., “Strong CA2 pyramidal neuron synapses define a powerful disynaptic cortico-hippocampal loop,” Neuron, [...]
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Genetically identical cells may be far more different than previously believed. Published this week in Science, researchers find striking variation in levels of gene expression among individual, genetically identical E. coli, seemingly the result of simple chance. “The paper is quite rich,” said Sanjay Tyagi, a molecular biologist at New Jersey Medical School who was [...]
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La Gerencia del Hotel San Simón, tiene el gusto de AVISAR a aquellos que quieran estar en el centro de acción de Bogota A pocas cuadras de La Academia Nacional de Medicina sitio donde se llevara a cabo las conferencias del Congreso Bicentenario NUEVAS TARIFAS Han rebajado la Tarifa del : Cuarto Tipo Suite, a [...]
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WASHINGTON — The federal government issued new rules Tuesday that will reward doctors and hospitals for the “meaningful use” of electronic health records, a top goal of President Obama. The rules significantly scale back proposed requirements that the health care industry had denounced as unrealistic. The Department of Health and Human Services said doctors and [...]
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Los investigadores afirman que esos anticuerpos se encuentran en la sangre de muchos infectados con el VIH. Un equipo de investigadores de Estados Unidos identificó tres anticuerpos naturales que son capaces de neutralizar más del 90 por ciento de las variedades principales del virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) , según un artículo que publica la revista Science.
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Two new lab-grown versions of lungs may one day serve as a way to sidestep both animal testing and organ transplantation. Image: Wikimedia commons, Patrick J. Lynch One engineered rat lung, described in Science Express today (June 24), even successfully helped rats breathe for brief periods. “This is the first ever published paper that really [...]
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Genetically modifying the stem cells of HIV patients may one day prove to be an effective, one-time therapy against the hard-to-kill virus, according to the results of a proof-of-principle trial published this week in Science Translational Medicine. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Image: Wikimedia commons, NIAID In contrast to the widely used highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), [...]
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An experimental pill from Pfizer Inc. shrank tumors in patients with a rare form of lung cancer that is caused by a defective gene and occurs mostly in nonsmokers, a study showed. The medicine, crizotinib, reduced tumor size in 57 percent of patients and stopped the progression of the disease in 87 percent of those [...]
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Researchers in Cleveland may be close to a medical breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer.Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic claim a single vaccination can prevent breast cancer tumors from forming in animals, while stopping the growth of existing tumors. While the group is optimistic, they warn it’s a big leap from results in animals [...]
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