15 minutes could save you from going blind
Of the five senses (or six, if you’re a little boy in an M. Night Shyamalan movie) most people would agree that vision is their most valuable sense. As people age, this most prized faculty...
View ArticleNew diagnostic test for coma patients
Consciousness is tricky. There is little understanding of consciousness, and there is no universally agreed upon definition of consciousness. So how can we tell if a person is conscious? In healthy...
View ArticleHope and innovation, not fear, should drive scientific transparency
From the horrific Tuskegee incident to the more recent autism scandal, the exposure of scientific fraud illuminates the need for full disclosure of data not only to scientific peers, but also to...
View ArticleControlling biofilm: the new frontier of bioreactors
Bioreactors carry out biological or chemical processes in a biologically active environment. For years, they have proven to be a useful and promising form of technology. Scientists used some of the...
View ArticlePersonalized medicine: How genetic testing, data mining and mice are changing...
Personalized medicine is medical care customized to a patient’s specific genetic and demographic profile. It is an odd idea to think that traditional medicine was not always personalized, but truly...
View ArticleArtificial heart makers hoping to expand technology towards permanent implants
Italian doctors at Rome’s Bambino Gesu hospital saved the life of a 16-month-old boy this week by implanting the world’s smallest heart to keep him alive until a permanent donor could be found. The...
View ArticleState Department, Universities Blast UN Attack on Patents
If the UN Secretary General and the members of his “High Level Panel on Access to Medicines” thought the State Department was bluffing when it warned against their attempt to make intellectual...
View ArticleFDA Approves NorthStar’s Tc-99m Generator
The Food and Drug Administration recently announced approval of the RadioGenix™ System, a technetium 99m (Tc-99m) generator. The RadioGenix™ System is developed by NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes,...
View ArticleCan You Trademark COVID?
Try typing COVID in your search engines and you will likely get billions of results. Meanwhile a bit more than 2 years before, this and the coronavirus word were practically unknown. As Einstein once...
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