November 29, 2022
(Science) – A 65-year-old woman who was receiving a promising experimental treatment to slow the cognitive decline caused by her early Alzheimer’s disease recently died from a massive brain hemorrhage that some researchers link to the drug. The clinical trial … Read More
November 25, 2022
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include: “Patient Satisfaction with Surgical Informed Consent at Jimma Medical Center, Ethiopia” by Tsegaw Biyazin, Ayanos Taye and Yeshitila Belay “Patients’ Views on Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Treat Parkinson’s … Read More
November 23, 2022
(The Conversation) – We are scientists who support ethical animal research that reduces suffering of humans and animals alike by helping researchers discover the causes of disease and how to treat it. One of us is a neuroscientist who studies … Read More
November 22, 2022
(Science) – After some early but cautious optimism, a company is shelving its pioneering gene-editing treatment for a rare inherited blindness disorder. Editas Medicine announced today the trial trying to use the gene editor CRISPR to treat Leber congenital amaurosis … Read More
November 21, 2022
(Undark) – Epstein-Barr virus has infected about 95 percent of adults. Yet only a tiny fraction of them will develop multiple sclerosis. Other factors are also known to affect a person’s MS risk, including genetics, low vitamin D, smoking, and … Read More
November 21, 2022
(The Conversation) – But what about correlations involving genes? How can researchers be sure that a particular trait or disease is truly genetically linked, and not caused by something else? We are statistical geneticists who study the genetic and nongenetic … Read More
November 21, 2022
(Wired) – The Aedes aegypti mosquito is not just a nuisance—it’s a known carrier of dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika viruses. Distinguished by the black and white stripes on its legs, the species is one of the most dangerous to humans. … Read More
November 18, 2022
(STAT News) – Remember that messenger-RNA-based Covid-19 vaccine you got? Just a few days later, the teeny molecular messengers contained in the shot were already gone. Despite scientists’ best attempts to bolster mRNA and improve its stability, these molecules are … Read More
November 17, 2022
(Wired) – After so much hemming and hawing about the amyloid hypothesis, this new drug would seem to have proved it—lecanemab cleared amyloid beta from people’s brains, and the progression of their disease slowed. In the research world, though, the … Read More
November 17, 2022
(New York Times) – But as an increasing number of adolescents identify as transgender — in the United States, an estimated 300,000 ages 13 to 17 and an untold number who are younger — concerns are growing among some medical … Read More
