Category: Biological

Medical scientists develop ‘game changing’ stem cell repair system | UNSW Newsroom

Source: Medical scientists develop ‘game changing’ stem cell repair system | UNSW Newsroom

Posted: April 6, 2016 in Biological

Pig heart kept beating inside baboon for more than two years – UPI.com

In a recent study, researchers were able to keep a pig heart beating inside a baboon for more than two years. Source: Pig heart kept >>>

Posted: April 6, 2016 in Biological

Can drugs force HIV to evolve? – Futurity

Scientists say it may be possible to steer the evolution of HIV proteins and eventually make HIV stop evolving resistance to drugs. Source: Can drugs >>>

Posted: April 5, 2016 in Biological

Novel Nanoparticle Shows Real-time Cancer Treatment Results

Being able to detect early on whether a cancer therapy is working for a patient can influence the course of treatment and improve outcomes and >>>

Posted: March 30, 2016 in Biological

Nanoparticles deliver anticancer cluster bombs

Scientists have devised a triple-stage “cluster bomb” system for delivering the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, via tiny nanoparticles designed to break up when they reach a >>>

Posted: March 29, 2016 in Biological

State isn’t using blood-test data that could help focus Exide cleanup efforts – LA Times

The state of California has blood test results showing high levels of lead in children living near the closed Exide battery plant in Vernon but >>>

Posted: March 26, 2016 in Biological

In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery | Quanta Magazine

Scientists have created a synthetic organism that possesses only the genes it needs to survive. But they have no idea what roughly a third of >>>

Posted: March 25, 2016 in Biological

Scope maker Olympus sought price hike amid superbug outbreak

Soon after doctors at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center traced deadly infections to tainted medical scopes last year, they pressed the device maker to lend >>>

Posted: March 25, 2016 in Biological, Editorial, Social

Modern Peanut’s Wild Cousin, Thought Extinct, Found in Andes – Scientific American

A new study reveals how two ancient species of this legume were combined 10,000 years ago, in Andean valleys, to create the modern peanut Source: >>>

Posted: March 24, 2016 in Biological

Mainstream CBS and MSNBC censor Bernie Sanders when he criticizes Monsanto, the TPP and Big Pharma

Mainstream CBS and MSNBC censor Bernie Sanders when he criticizes Monsanto, the TPP and Big Pharma Source: Mainstream CBS and MSNBC censor Bernie Sanders when >>>

Posted: March 24, 2016 in Biological, Editorial, Social