My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
August 31, 2012 | By Trevor Timm This morning, a bipartisan group of Representatives, led by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), sent a pointed letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and…
African antimalarial research bears first fruit Promising new compound becomes the first stemming from an African–MMV collaboration to enter preclinical development 28 August 2012 A recently discovered compound from the…
Why some fats are worse than others All dietary fats are not created equal. Some types of fats have been linked to ailments like heart disease and diabetes, while others,…
Contact: F.Ossing ossing@gfz-potsdam.de 49-331-288-1040 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres New estimate of living biomass Previous estimates about the total mass of all life on our planet have to be…
Contact: Hilary Glover hilary.glover@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22370 BioMed Central Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the viruses that most infected people carry without ill effects. Once infected you are infected for life and,…
46% now die with £10,000 or less saved Many do not have cash to absorb financial 'shocks' such as big medical bills Single retirees more likely to be poorer By…
By Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations | August 30, 2012 BERKELEY —Crises are said to bring people closer together. But a new study from UC Berkeley suggests that while the have-nots…
Contact: Nick Hanson newsbureau@mayo.edu 507-284-5005 Mayo Clinic Patients in clinical trial taking Olmesartan had symptoms of celiac disease ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered an association between a…
Contact: John Alderete, WSU professor of molecular biosciences alderete@vetmed.wsu.edu 509-335-8125 Washington State University Finding could lead to better diagnosis and treatment PULLMAN, Wash.—Researchers have identified a way in which men…
Contact: Anita Srikameswaran SrikamAV@upmc.edu 412-578-9193 University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences PITTSBURGH, Aug. 15 – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) have identified the oncoprotein…
By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:19:30 EST, 30 August 2012| UPDATED:20:09 EST, 30 August 2012 Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has been selling 150,000 shares of Facebook stock a…
ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) — First place in an EU competitive call on "Unconventional Computing" was awarded to a collaborative proposal coordinated by Prof. John McCaskill from the RUB Faculty…
We asked several academics to let us know their thoughts about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The TPP is a secretive, multi-national trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual…
Half the students in Ivy League college's Introduction to Congress class may have copied each other's Paul Harri guardian.co.uk, Thursday 30 August 2012 19.59 EDT The scandal may be…
Exclusive: U.N. patents body roiled by misconduct feud By Emma FargePosted 2012/08/30 at 10:50 am EDT GENEVA, Aug. 30, 2012 (Reuters) — Four months after a U.N. agency's decision to…
By Lucian Constantin | IDG News Service August 30, 2012 Kaspersky security researchers present their findings about Wiper malware affecting servers at Iran's oil ministry in April Security researchers from…
A traditional electric meter, left, sits next to the smart meters that ComEd began installing in Naperville in 2009. (Chuck Berman/Tribune / August 30, 2012) By Gregory Karp Tribune…
By Agence France-Presse Thursday, August 30, 2012 17:44 EDT Topics: Bryan Underwood ♦ Underwood ♦ us justice department WASHINGTON — A former civilian guard at a US consulate in China…
August 30, 2012 Government Withholding Information About Unconstitutional Spying at NSA Washington, D.C. - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) today, demanding answers about illegal…
Woodruff Health Sciences Center Aug. 30, 2012 Pregnant women who are highly exposed to common environmental chemicals - polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFCs) - have babies that are smaller at birth and…
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