Category: Genetics
Gene Therapy For Blind Again A Success, More Patients To Be Treated
Written by: Peter Murray 6 days ago
In 2009, 12 people participated in a clinical trial through which they received an experimental gene therapy for an inherited [...]
While Average Lifespans Increase, 114 Remains A Stubborn And Mysterious Upper Bound. Why?
Written by: Peter Murray 8 days ago
Ray Kurzweil predicts that in the coming decades the term “life expectancy” will become irrelevant. By then medical advances and [...]
Hospital Throws Down $25,000 Prize To Decode Genomic Information
Written by: David Hill 13 days ago
Children’s Hospital Boston recently announced a $25,000 competition for the development of an interpretation and communication system that can deliver genomic [...]
Embryonic Stem Cells Used To Improve Vision Of Blind Patients
Written by: Peter Murray 27 days ago
Macular degeneration had left Sue Freeman, 78, legally blind. She couldn’t go for a walk by herself, she couldn’t go [...]
India Finds Cases Of Tuberculosis Completely Resistant To Drugs
Written by: Peter Murray 36 days ago
This is scary. A report out of India identifies four new cases of tuberculosis that are completely resistant to drug [...]
Hold Off On That Glass Just Yet – Red Wine Researcher Charged With Falsifying Data
Written by: Peter Murray 38 days ago
The next time you toast a Cabernet Sauvignon to your heart health, you might be better off just toasting Tim [...]
Latest Victory For Regenerative Medicine: Pituitary Grown From Embryonic Stem Cells
Written by: Peter Murray 68 days ago
Chalk up another part of the body that can be grown from stem cells – at least in mice. Scientists [...]
New Gene Therapy Stops The Bleeding In Hemophilia Patients (video)
Written by: Peter Murray 70 days ago
Finally, some good news about gene therapy. And just in time for the holidays. A recent study showed that giving [...]
Freezing Life: Cryogenics Is The Last Hope For Many Endangered Species
Written by: Peter Murray 78 days ago
The Great Barrier Reef is dying. As pollution and other man-made influences threaten the reef, which is not expected to [...]
Financial Priorities Force Geron To End Human Trials For Promising Stem Cell Treatment
Written by: Peter Murray 93 days ago
The promise of future stem cell treatments just took a significant hit. Biopharmaceutical trailblazer Geron Corporation just called it quits as [...]
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Copper’s New Role: Germ Killer
Written by: Peter Murray 100 days ago
We’ve already got hand sanitizer at every entrance and waiting room, signs in the bathrooms to remind us to wash [...]
After 24 Years, Joe Cohen’s Malaria Vaccine Will Probably Be World’s First
Written by: Peter Murray 120 days ago
Joe Cohen didn’t know much about malaria when he agreed to head the vaccine research program at a company that [...]
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Are You BioCurious? Now You Can Join the Club, Use the Lab, Hack Your Biology.
Written by: Aaron Saenz 131 days ago
The Do It Yourself community is breaking new ground. Forget learning how to knit, building your own computer, or fixing [...]
Matthew
to clarify; i agree that absurd was not the best word choice. no scientific question is absurd, no matter how irrelevant or inapplicable it seems. even if [...]
IvoryTowerScientist
I can not help but think if singularity-level civilizations had come to Earth and seen human civilization in the past ten thousand years they might have stepped [...]
turtles_allthewaydown
I wouldn't have the hubris to say we're the first in the galaxy! The galaxy is pretty big, and we're out on one arm in a localized 'bubble'. [...]