NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 31st October 2006 04:02 PM GMT] Does early detection work? The New York Times today posts a story about Claudia Henschke, a radiology professor at Weill Cornell Medical College who?s pushing for routine CT scans to detect lung cancer earlier. The phrases are so well trodden, they?re often taken at face value: ?We?re lucky we caught it in time,? or ?If only we?d found it sooner.?
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 20th October 2006 01:39 PM GMT] For someone forecasting Armageddon, E.O. Wilson is surprisingly optimistic. The Harvard professor, along with Harvard divinity professor Harvey Cox spoke at the Philadelphia Free Library last night with a message of hope ? not just for rescuing the humanity from its path of self- and planet-destruction, but for doing so through a deeper communication between science and religion.
Wilson?s latest book, The Creation, calls upon the... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 16th October 2006 04:22 PM GMT] A little under two years ago, Lou Hawthorne, CEO of Genetic Savings and Clone, told me that he hoped the pet cloning company would be profitable within two years, at which point it would consider an initial public offering. Apparently, they didn?t make it. News outlets reported last week that the company had sent letters to all of its clients announcing it would be closing by the end of the year. Clients could continue to bank their... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 13th October 2006 04:25 PM GMT] In our May issue, James Aiken, the CEO of the Keystone Symposia, wrote that ?the long reach of Bill Gates? had ?finally touched the Keystone Symposia, and all of conference planning, really.? Aiken was writing a grant proposal to the Foundation, and they required him to show measured value for the conferences.
Aiken went on to describe a method for quantifying the conferences? impact. When he tallied the results of the instrument... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 4th October 2006 10:20 AM GMT] Roger Kornberg of Stanford University presumably got the call from Stockholm at 3am in California. He won a solo Nobel in Chemistry for elucidating the mechanics of transcription via the crystallization of RNA polymerase. He?s the third American life scientist to pull down a Nobel this year and the second to win the prize in his family. Father, Arthur Kornberg won the 1959 prize in Physiology or Medicine for elucidating DNA... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 2nd October 2006 10:29 AM GMT] Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello have won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in controlling the activity of genes.
This is likey to be a welcome award. RNA interference has taken labs by storm and shows some promise in the clinic.
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