Items tagged with medicine

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New Malaria World Map Published Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 - 16:15:00 - Ehud Rattner Researchers released a detailed map of global malaria risk, and it shows that some at-risk countries are getting less investment per capita than... read more

Researchers Publish Deadly Disease Map Friday, February 22nd, 2008 - 12:20:45 - Iddo Genuth An international research team has provided the first scientific evidence that deadly emerging diseases have risen steeply across the world, and has... read more

A Sweet Success for Embryonic Stem Cells Thursday, February 21st, 2008 - 23:55:01 - Sarah Gingichashvili Scientists have for the first time prodded human embryonic stem cells to become functional pancreatic cells. The work, published online today in... read more

Researchers Explain Spread of 1918 Flu Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 - 20:19:45 - Iddo Genuth MIT researchers have explained why two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus allowed the disease to spread during the 1918 pandemic that killed at... read more

Artificial Playmates for Autistic Children Monday, February 18th, 2008 - 10:56:21 - Sarah Gingichashvili Children with autism spectrum disorder are unable to sustain play, make-believe games, and fluid social interaction - at least with real people. But... read more

Genetic Barcoding Help Create Cancer Drugs Friday, February 15th, 2008 - 20:01:26 - Iddo Genuth Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators have invented a quick and relatively inexpensive method for identifying genes that are... read more

New Technique Makes Tissues Transparent Thursday, February 14th, 2008 - 20:23:40 - Iddo Genuth If humans had see-through skin like a jellyfish, spotting disease like cancer would be a snap: Just look, and see a tumor form or grow. A new optical... read more

Small RNAs May Stop Breast Cancer Thursday, February 14th, 2008 - 12:14:00 - Iddo Genuth Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have identified small pieces of ribonucleic acid (RNA) that suppress the spread of breast cancer to the... read more

Lab On A Chip Mimics Brain Chemistry Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 - 20:14:02 - Iddo Genuth Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a micro-scale tool - a lab on a chip - designed to mimic the chemical complexities of the brain. The system... read more

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