Science and Health News

Russian scientists are working on the problem of heat cell stress and stress-induced cell ageing.

Rapamycin is a bacterial by-product that was discovered in 1964 in the soil at Easter Island, by a group of Canadian scientists who had gone there to study the health of the isolated local population.

UC Berkeley scientists have developed a quicker and more efficient method to alter the genes of mice with CRISPR-Cas9, simplifying a procedure growing in popularity because of the ease of using the new gene-editing tool.

By increasing the level of a specific microRNA (miRNA) molecule, researchers have for the first time restored chemotherapy sensitivity in vitro to a line of human pancreatic cancer cells that had developed resistance to a common treatment drug.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Probuphine, the first buprenorphine implant for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. Probuphine is designed to provide a constant, low-level dose of buprenorphine for six months in patients who are already stable on low-to-moderate doses of other forms of buprenorphine, as part of a complete treatment program.

TAU researchers combine electronics with living tissues to create a self-regulating cardiac patc

Among the valuable holdings in London’s Wellcome Library is a rough pencil sketch made in 1953 by Francis Crick. The drawing is one of the first to show the double-helix structure of DNA-Nature’s blueprint for the design of sea snails, human beings, and every other living form on earth.

Did you hear about the secret meeting earlier this month at Harvard Medical School? The one where scientists schemed to create a parentless human being from scratch? Maybe you read one of the skeptical news articles, or the stories illustrated with images from the dystopian sci-fi classic «Blade Runner» or of a robot Frankenstein. One blogger compared the meeting to a gathering of «Bond villains.»