Health Blogs
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Bioorthogonal chemistry: pharma lab inside the body
The traditional way of making medicines from ingredients mixed together in a factory may be joined by a new approach in which doctors administer ingredients for a medicine separately to patients, and the ingredients then combine to produce the medicine inside patients’ bodies.
That’s one promise from an emerging new field [...]
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Nanoscale sensor electronically reads the sequence of a single DNA molecule
University of Washington scientists have devised a nanoscale sensor to electronically read the sequence of a single DNA molecule. This fast and inexpensive technique could lead to affordable personalized medicine, potentially revealing predispositions for afflictions such as cancer, diabetes or addiction.
“There is a clear path to a workable, easily produced [...]
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If you punish yourself, you're gonna get bruised
Number of comments: 0That is the inside of my upper right arm and a ridiculously colorful and large bruise. I got it after falling off my Bosu ball Saturday morning.
It's also the exact moment when I decided to stop punishing myself because the scale wasn't moving. I've been beating myself up the [...]
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We Will Not Boycott Starbucks
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The National Organization of Marriage is calling for a boycott of Starbucks. They are reacting to the following memorandum according to their boycott website: ‘On January 12th, 2012, Starbucks issued a memorandum declaring that same-sex marriage 'is core to who we are and what we value as a company.' The [...]
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J. Craig Venter Describes Biofuels, Vaccines and Foods From Made-to-Order Microbes
Just as aspiring authors often read hundreds of books before starting their own, scientists are using decades of knowledge garnered from sequencing or “reading” the genetic codes of thousands of living things to now start writing new volumes in the library of life. J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., one of the [...]
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So, in case you were wondering…
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…I didn’t match. There are probably many reasons why. I was geographically limited in two ways: my custody agreement limited me to the Southeast, and I only applied in cities where I knew people. I am an osteopathic student who … Continue reading → [...]
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CS/HB 655 Biomedical Research bill signed by Gov Rick Scott
CS/HB 655 Biomedical Research bill has been signed by Governor Rick Scott. Mostly housekeeping measures around James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program and the William G. “Bill” Bankhead, Jr., and David Coley Cancer Research Program.
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Worm model of back-up telomere repair strategy could speed identification of anti-cancer drugs
Rapidly dividing cancer cells are skilled at patching up damage that would stop normal cells in their tracks, including wear and tear of telomeres, the protective caps at the end of each chromosome.
Loss of telomeres forces cells out of the dividing game and into a growth arrest state called “senescence,” [...]
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Mindfulness and The Four Agreements
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We are often asked if there is anything to read, other than CoupleDumb, that can help change your way of being and introduce mindfulness in a concrete manner. The only book that fits that bill is ‘The Four Agreements’. We have mentioned the ‘Four Agreements’ several times on CoupleDumb and [...]
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