My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
Contact: Jessica Guenzel Jessica.Guenzel@nyumc.org 212-404-3591 NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine NEW YORK, September 3, 2012 – A new study by researchers at NYU School…
By Muriel Kane Sunday, September 2, 2012 20:19 EDT A new ordinance for “extraordinary events” put in place by the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, which is hosting the Democratic…
Contact: Laura Udakis l.udakis@sgm.ac.uk 44-079-908-26696 Society for General Microbiology Digested coconut oil is able to attack the bacteria that cause tooth decay. It is a natural antibiotic that could be…
Contact: Tom Hughes tahughes@unch.unc.edu 919-966-6047 University of North Carolina Health Care IMAGE:Thomas Kash, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies in the University of North…
By Larry Elliott, The Guardian Sunday, September 2, 2012 12:01 EDT The last decade saw the end of cheap oil, the magic growth ingredient for the global economy after the…
Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer daniel.oppenheimer@utexas.edu 512-745-3353 University of Texas at Austin Ancient enzymes function like nanopistons to unwind RNA AUSTIN, Texas—Molecular biologists at The University of Texas at Austin have solved…
By Ross Kenneth Urken Posted 12:25PM 08/30/12 --> To most of us, "debtors' prison" sounds like an archaic institution, something straight out of a Dickens novel. But the idea of…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6HgLcMmIKk] In Appreciation to our Friends at the EFF...Engineering Evil Denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly common phenomena, used by a variety of actors—from activists to…
Hardline cleric deliberately framed Rimsha Masih, believed to be just 13, in order to 'get rid of Christians', court hears Jon Boone in Islamaba guardian.co.uk, Sunday 2 September…
'...But what happens when it rains?' Cloud computing may be the latest buzz-word, but half of us think it can be affected by bad weather By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED:11:48 EST,…
By Agence France-Presse Sunday, September 2, 2012 8:13 EDT Topics: disease outbreak ♦ health authorities ♦ Quebec Legionnaire A Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in Quebec City has killed 10 people since…
Contact: Angela Dansby aldansby@ift.org 312-782-8424 x127 Institute of Food Technologists When cinnamon is in, Escherichia coli O157:H7 is out. That's what researchers at Kansas State University discovered in laboratory tests…
Contact: Heidi Hardman hhardman@cell.com 617-397-2879 Cell Press The bacteria responsible for the plague and some forms of food poisoning "paralyze" the immune system of their hosts in an unexpected way,…
One third of junior drugs are not tested on children sparking demand for probe Official study calls for urgent investigation after 'high number of drug errors' 95 per cent of…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH96O5niEnI] Up, down, bank, take a photo! Researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, have developed a quadcopter that can be controlled by thought alone. The idea is to…
Contact: Aaron Lohr alohr@endo-society.org 240-482-1380 The Endocrine Society Fructose, the sugar widely used as high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks and processed foods, often gets some of the blame for…
Contact: Kim Irwin kirwin@mednet.ucla.edu310-206-2805 University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences Pancreatic cancers use the sugar fructose, very common in the Western diet, to activate a key cellular pathway…
Exposure to Common Toxic Substances Could Increase Asthma Symptoms ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2012) — Children who are exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were commonly used in a range of…
Still no shame for thalidomide cover-up Victims of the drug scandal have been offered an apology, but Harold Evans, who was in charge of the Sunday Times and broke the…
A judge has deferred hearing of Rimsha Masih over charges of burning sacred Islamic texts after legal wrangling Jon Boone in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, Saturday 1 September 2012 09.16…
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