Published in August 15th, 2008
Researchers Peter Majewski and Chiu Ping ‘Candace’ Chan in South Australia “have discovered a simple way to remove bacteria and other contaminants from water using tiny particles of pure silica coated with an active nano-material.” Here’s the news story.
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Published in August 1st, 2008
The Salk Institute’s Ron Evans just released a study where certain drugs trick a mouse’s body into thinking it exercised. Sounds a bit matrix-like to me, but if it could work on humans without side effects, the demand would be overwhelming.
From USA Today:
“Sedentary mice that took the drug for four weeks burned [...]
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Published in July 26th, 2008
This is a great article by Gregory Pence at the University of Alabama. He argues that:
“Wholly unintentionally, the U.S. ban on federal funding jump-started innovation in assisted reproduction. One byproduct of the ban was that the National Institutes of Health and ethics committees had no mechanism for regulating research in these private clinics. In [...]
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Published in June 29th, 2008
Today was the first day of the science part of the M Foundation’s aging conference at UCLA. There were many impressive speakers and academics, but the most impressive was Zheng Cui from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He has discovered that white blood cells in cancer resistant mice can be used to [...]
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Published in June 27th, 2008
Personalized medicine is touted as the wave of the future, but recent government action points to problems for Americans looking to join the health revolution. Last week, California’s Department of Public Health issued cease-and-desist letters to 13 genetic testing startups, threatening to deny service to consumers curious about their DNA.
“Any laboratory offering genetic tests to [...]
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Published in June 20th, 2008
This is a great article by Gordy Slack. He argues that we shouldn’t be so quick to write off creationists, as they do make some good points.
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Published in June 4th, 2008
From Resveratrol Partners’ press release:
“Once mega-doses of resveratrol (more than 500 mg) began to be employed, side effects like anemia, Achilles heel tendonitis, anxiety reactions, numbness in the fingers, began to be reported,” says Bill Sardi, spokesperson for Longevinex® (long-jev-in-ex), a leading brand resveratrol dietary supplement. “This is probably because resveratrol is a copper chelator [...]
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Published in June 4th, 2008
The WSJ today reported that “New genetic research emerging from a major cancer meeting [annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology] could help doctors better identify the drugs most likely to work in their patients — but sharply reduce the market for certain blockbuster cancer drugs.”
Interesting that they are predicting more drug products [...]
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Published in May 29th, 2008
If you didn’t get a chance to clone your cat before Genetic Savings & Clone shut down, you now have a chance to clone your Dog. New company, BioArts, is having Woo Suk Wang of Seoul, South Korea perform the clonings. Yes, he’s the guy who was discredited after he falsely claimed to [...]
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Published in May 22nd, 2008
This op-ed by James A. Bianco, president and CEO of Cell Therapeutics, makes a lot of sense. He says: “What’s missing from the debate is the public policy encouragement to produce more “smart” medicine.”
I agree. All too often, anti-aging activists simply turn to the idea that the solution is more money. [...]
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Published in May 12th, 2008
From the UK Times: “THE British doctor who pioneered test-tube babies has forecast that within decades stem-cell technology will make it possible to grow replacements for virtually any part of the human body.
Robert Edwards, 82, said the emerging field of regenerative medicine would enable a patient’s own cells to be used to build hearts, livers [...]
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Published in March 24th, 2008
This is amazing and shows the power of regenerative medicine.
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Published in March 24th, 2008
The Alzheimer’s Association recently reported that one out of eight baby boomers is expected to get Alzheimer’s disease, creating a total of 10 million victims. This staggering prediction underscores the need for brain health and augmentation, a new market that tech players are fortunately beginning to enter.
Just as it is possible to go to work [...]
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Published in March 13th, 2008
The Allen Institute for Brain Science is launching a four-year, $55 million project to build an atlas of genes’ activity in the brain. From the WSJ:
“Jones and his colleagues will take about a half dozen brains from recently dead people who were neurologically and psychiatrically healthy. Then they’ll divide each brain into somewhere between 500 [...]
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Published in March 7th, 2008
This article summarizes research by Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He has found that a mutation that causes a decrease the activity of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) results in short stature but longer life. Here is [...]
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Published in February 8th, 2008
The next generation of parents is set to embrace genetic testing of kids for diseases that may occur later in life, according to a study published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics. This is big news given that many medical professionals oppose the practice and there is a movement in Congress to secure genetic [...]
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Published in January 26th, 2008
At this week’s Digital Life Design (DLD) conference in Germany, renowned scientists Craig Venter, Ph.D., and Richard Dawkins wowed the audience with a conversation about genes and information technology. They discussed how evolution is becoming man-made, which brings up a number of interesting issues.
“Genetics has become a branch of information technology,” Dawkins opined. There’s a [...]
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Published in January 24th, 2008
Today, the J. Craig Venter Institute announced that they have created the first man-made chromosome. The next step will be to place it inside a living organism so it can replicate and they can claim to have created an artifical life form. Wow.
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Published in January 17th, 2008
This is yet more step on the way to fully personalized medicine. The new test, which will analyzes blood or saliva samples, will soon be offered by ProActive Genomics. Here’s the full story from the NYT.
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Published in January 17th, 2008
University of Minnesota researchers created a beating heart in the laboratory by injecting fresh heart cells into a non-living rat heart matrix. Amazing stuff.
“In the United States alone, about 5 million people live with heart failure, 550,000 new cases are diagnosed every year, and 50,000 die waiting for a donor heart. The work is [...]
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