NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 31st October 2006 04:02 PM GMT] Does early detection work? The New York Times today posts a story about Claudia Henschke, a radiology professor at Weill Cornell Medical College who?s pushing for routine CT scans to detect lung cancer earlier. The phrases are so well trodden, they?re often taken at face value: ?We?re lucky we caught it in time,? or ?If only we?d found it sooner.?
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 20th October 2006 01:39 PM GMT] For someone forecasting Armageddon, E.O. Wilson is surprisingly optimistic. The Harvard professor, along with Harvard divinity professor Harvey Cox spoke at the Philadelphia Free Library last night with a message of hope ? not just for rescuing the humanity from its path of self- and planet-destruction, but for doing so through a deeper communication between science and religion.
Wilson?s latest book, The Creation, calls upon the... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 4th October 2006 10:20 AM GMT] Roger Kornberg of Stanford University presumably got the call from Stockholm at 3am in California. He won a solo Nobel in Chemistry for elucidating the mechanics of transcription via the crystallization of RNA polymerase. He?s the third American life scientist to pull down a Nobel this year and the second to win the prize in his family. Father, Arthur Kornberg won the 1959 prize in Physiology or Medicine for elucidating DNA... Click to continue
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