A first-of-a-kind prostate cancer treatment that uses the body’s immune system received federal approval yesterday, offering an important alternative to more taxing treatments like chemotherapy… Dendreon Corp.’s Provenge vaccine trains the immune system to… Click here for the entire article found on the Boston Globe website. Click here for more information on prostate cancer. Share
Chang Xian Zhang and his collaborators have been one of the world’s most active teams in the search to understand the functions of the Nem1 gene… Click here for the complete article. Click here for more about cancer. Click here for more information on diabetes. Share
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While cancer victims usually blame themselves — I shouldn’t have smoked, should have eaten better, should have exercised — or the cruelty of chance, they may now have a new scapegoat: Grandma… Click here for the entire article. Click here for more information on healthy eating. Share
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The pledges are part of Bloomberg’s National Salt Reduction Initiative, a coalition of cities and health organizations that aim to reduce salt in restaurant and packaged foods by 25 percent over five years… Click here for the entire Reuters report. Click here for more information about salt. Share
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John DeVincenzo studies paediatric infectious disease at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. He and his colleagues tested the ability of short interfering RNA (siRNA) to inhibit viruses of the respiratory tract, where cells are exceptionally willing to take up RNA snippets… Click here for the complete article found on the New [...]
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Get ready for the first generation to cash in on the “longevity dividend”… Click here to access the blog article. Click on “Longevity Rules: How to Age Well Into the Future” to learn more about the book. Share
Medical science attributes increasing longevity to a complex interplay of diet, exercise, and genetics. But attitude, researchers suggest, is another factor we can learn from our elders: Act as if you’re still living, rather than dying… Click here for the complete ABC News report. Click on Elsa’s Own Blue Zone: America’s Centenarian Sweetheart’s Insights for [...]
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The Church Aims to Fund International Research Group to Back Adult Stem Cells… Click here for the ABC News report. Click here for more information on adult stem cells. Share
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In the battle against cancer and other diseases, precise analysis of specific proteins can point the way toward targeted treatments. Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), together with Fujitsu Laboratories of Japan, have developed… Click here for the complete article. Click here to learn more about targeted treatments. Share – – – – – [...]
John West is very familiar with whole genome sequencing (WGS). He was a general manager with Illumina after they acquired Solexa, where he had been CEO. So it’s no surprise that John West hired Illumina to sequence him, or even that his wife Judy followed suit. What has caught attention is that he asked his [...]