Archive for February, 2009
Lose Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kind-heartedness That Counts <<>>
Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Ethics on February 26, 2009 – 12:00 pm -Why do people do upright things? Is thoughtfulness hard-wired into the brain, or does this predisposition begin via experience? Or is goodness some conglomeration of identity and nurture?
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Stimulus folding money includes funding to compare drugs and treatments <<>>
Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Ethics on February 17, 2009 – 9:45 pm - Mid the provisions in the fiscal stimulus containerize that President Obama signed today is $1.1 billion in federal funding to probe how different treatments funnel up against each other. The mazuma order probably go to comparing drugs, devices and medical procedures, in an effort guided by a caucus of 15 respectful servants.
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Stimulus tab includes funding to refer drugs and treatments <<>>
Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Ethics on February 17, 2009 – 9:45 pm -Among the provisions in the remunerative stimulus combination that President Obama signed today is $1.1 billion in federal funding to explore how exceptional treatments collect up against each other. The legal tender desire no doubt go to comparing drugs, devices and medical procedures, in an energy guided by a directors of 15 public servants.
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Dispatch Through Briefs: Hushed on the Nano Gamble <<>>
Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Nanotechnology on February 6, 2009 – 11:00 am -Amnio Another Amniocentesis and other prenatal tests designed to assess fetal health enrapture a elfin risk of failing. Now Chinese researchers may keep set an substitute diagnostic method based on a facility that distinguishes caring DNA from fetal DNA in the mother’s blood. That ability could primacy to simple, no-risk blood tests that find out whether a fetus has a stew caused by single-gene mutations, such as cystic fibrosis and sickle stall anemia. The fetal DNA, which tends to be shorter than that of the mother, is duplicated and subjected to a “molecular counting” standard operating procedure that tallies both mutant and general genetic figures. Researchers can use the evidence to determine whether the fetus has inherited a monogenetic disease. The San Diego–based biotech actors Sequenom plans to elaborate on the assay for commercial giving out. The scrutinize appears in the December 16, 2008, Proceedings of the Resident Academy of Sciences USA. --Gary Stix
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