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Telomerase Gene Therapy Extends Lives Of Mice By Up To 24 Percent
Written by: Peter Murray 10 hours ago
Scientists are doing their best to give us the gift of immortality. The latest in the fight against ever dying [...]
“Good” Cholesterol Not So Good After All, New Study Shows
Written by: Peter Murray 4 days ago
The revelation that high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, is the “good cholesterol” has suffered a major blow. A meta-study involving over [...]
New Study Shows Gene Therapy For HIV Safe After A Decade
Written by: Peter Murray 5 days ago
A clinical trial testing a gene therapy for HIV patients is now 11 years old. Recently, the researchers running the [...]
Scientists Make Bird Flu Transmissible Between Humans Then Tell World How To Do It
Written by: Peter Murray 8 days ago
The emergence of the avian flu in 2003 caused alarm around the world as it spread through countries in Asia, [...]
Controversial Anti-Aging Chemical Resveratrol Back In The Spotlight With New Details About How It Works
Written by: Peter Murray 13 days ago
Resveratrol, the famed anti-aging supplement extracted from red wine, has experienced its share of controversy. An experimental artifact, a pair [...]
Same Kidney Transplanted Twice
Written by: Peter Murray 25 days ago
Twenty-seven-year-old Ray Fearing suffered from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a common type of kidney disease, and needed a new kidney. [...]
Regenokine: The Unproven Treatment That Professional Athletes Are Flying To Germany For
Written by: Peter Murray 30 days ago
Kobe Bryant did it. Alex Rodriguez did it. Golfer Fred Couples did it, even the late Pope John Paul II [...]
Drug To Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease Receives FDA Approval
Written by: Peter Murray 37 days ago
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lily just got FDA approval on a chemical that would enable clinicians to detect a biological marker [...]
New Bedside Genetic Screen Yields Results In An Hour
Written by: David J. Hill 42 days ago
A new point-of-care system accurately screens a patient’s DNA for a single gene in an hour. The shoebox-sized device from Canadian-based Spartan [...]
Group Set To Sequence 1000 Genomes By The End Of The Year
Written by: Peter Murray 50 days ago
When the Human Genome Project got underway in 1990 it was expected to take 15 years to sequence the over [...]