Posted on September 2, 2010 by Blue Sky Science
Personalized medicine is very popular among medical researchers these days, and it’s not hard to see why. By tailoring treatment to fit an individual patient, for example by using information about their genetic makeup, scientists hope to make treatments more effective while at the same time avoiding or minimizing adverse effects. Anti-vivisectionist Dr. Greek writes [...]
Filed under: News, Science News | Tagged: nobel prize, monoclonal antibody, mouse, dario ringach, Harold Varmus, breast cancer, Ray Greek, Herceptin, trastuzumab, Personalized medicine, Axel Ullrich, Genentech, humanized antibody, tumor xenograft, Robert Weinberg | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 31, 2010 by Blue Sky Science
Heart failure, where the heart is unable to maintain a sufficient blood flow to supply the body’s needs, is a leading cause of death, especially among the over 65’s. Half of all chronic heart failure patients die within four years of diagnosis. It can have a number of causes, for example damage to heart tissue [...]
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Posted on August 17, 2010 by Blue Sky Science
It’s just over a decade since the completion of the first working draft of the human genome was announced, and seven years since the publication of the complete sequence, but in that short time the impact of this new knowledge on all areas medical research has been immense. Sequencing the human genome was a huge [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2010 by Blue Sky Science
There’s an interesting story on the BBC website about new research on nerve cell regeneration after spinal cord damage in mice, work undertaken by a team led by Dr. Zhigang He of the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Children’s Hospital Boston. Those of you who follow developments on the field of spinal cord repair may [...]
Filed under: News, Science News | Tagged: spinal cord, spinal cord injury, nerve cell, neuron, optic nerve, mTOR, PTEN, Dr. Zhigang He, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Children's Hospital Boston, nerve regeneration, nervous tissue, central nervous system, CNS | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 3, 2010 by speakingofresearch
Back across the pond, in Leicester (pronounced “les-ter”), animal rights activists are warming up for a battle against a new £15 million (around $24 million) biomedical facility which the University of Leicester is building. Looking through the local rags, an interesting article came up in “this is Leicestershire” from a reporter who took a look [...]
Filed under: Animal Rights News, News | Tagged: animal research, animal testing, vivisection, Tom Holder, benefits, animal rights, animal rights activists, University of Leicester, Leicester | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 30, 2010 by Blue Sky Science
A team of NIH-funded scientists and veterinarians at Columbia University, the University of Missouri, Clemson University, and the Medical University of South Carolina, have this week announced a significant advance in tissue engineering, for the first time they have used cutting–edge tissue engineering technology to produced a moving joint, in this case the hip, in [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2010 by Blue Sky Science
There was exciting news on Monday when it was announced at an international AIDS conference in Vienna that microbicide gel had dramatically reduced the transmission of HIV in a Phase 2 clinical trial involving 889 women in South Africa. If confirmed by larger phase 3 trials this gel will offer millions of women a way [...]
Filed under: News, Science News | Tagged: paul browne, americans for medical progress, monkey, hiv, aids, SIV, michael d hayre, hayre fellow, Dr. Koen Van Rompay, Hayre Fellowship, clinical trial, HIV prophylaxis, macaque, tenofovir, microbicide gel | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 19, 2010 by Blue Sky Science
Vaccines make a crucial contribution to public health, saving hundreds of millions of people from deadly or debilitating diseases every year, but it’s also fair to say that getting your shots is not the most pleasant of experiences. It’s not just a question of short term discomfort, many people suffer from needle phobias that can [...]
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