News: A cancerous melody Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 25th September 2009 06:07 AM GMT] A project at Harvard Medical School aims to bring music to medicine in a way that goes beyond setting the mood in the waiting room. Gene transcription and translation are anything but ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story News: NIH picks stem cell panel Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 21st September 2009 07:37 PM GMT] The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established a much-awaited panel charged with deciding whether human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines derived in the ... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this news story News: Plague may have killed researcher Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 21st September 2009 02:59 PM GMT] A University of Chicago geneticist studying the genetics of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, may have died from exposure to a weakened strain he worked with in the laboratory. Wayson stain of Yersinia pestisImage: Wikimedia ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Primate study triggers lawsuit Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 18th September 2009 04:57 PM GMT] A six-month dispute between a biotech company and a university primate facility it contracted for a study on spinal cord injury has prompted a lawsuit. Cambridge-based biotech ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Colorblind monkeys see new light Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 16th September 2009 06:00 PM GMT] Gene therapy has successfully given colorblind adult monkeys the ability to see red and green, according to a study published this week in Nature, demonstrating a striking plasticity in the adult visual system and providing new hope for treating ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: 2009 Lasker Awards announced Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 14th September 2009 04:57 PM GMT] John Gurdon of Cambridge University and Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and the University of California, San Francisco, will share ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Neurons don't waste energy Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 10th September 2009 07:00 PM GMT] A classical model of how neurons power their chemical messages may need revision. Neurons from the rat hippocampus use three times less energy to propagate an action potential down an axon than was previously believed, according to a new study ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Stem cell co. faked success: SEC Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 9th September 2009 04:59 PM GMT] A stem cell company is in hot water with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for falsely representing an early-stage experimental stem cell therapy as nearing human trials. Image: Wikimedia commons, Centers ... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this news story News: School sued for fake cancer test Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 8th September 2009 04:04 PM GMT] A biotechnology company is suing the University of Pittsburgh over a test for prostate cancer, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported last week. The lawsuit claims the test is ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: Brain proteins make fears last Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 3rd September 2009 07:00 PM GMT] Why are fearful memories so hard to shake? The answer may lie in developmental changes in the extracellular environment in the amygdala -- the emotional center of the brain -- where such memories are formed, according to a study published this week ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story News: Y causes sex disorders Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 3rd September 2009 05:00 PM GMT] The Y chromosome has a unique approach to ensuring its survival, but that self-preservation mechanism may cause a range of sexual disorders from male sterility to sex reversal, in which a person's genetic sex is opposite his anatomical development, ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story News: Epilepsy paper retracted Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 2nd September 2009 03:56 PM GMT] Researchers have retracted a highly-cited 2003 Nature Genetics paper which identified mutations underlying some types of epilepsy after discovering some blatantly erroneous ... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this news story

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