Today is the Rally for Medical Research in Washington, DC, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of cancer researchers. The point...

To catch a tumor cell? Well, obviously, you just line up and sort 10 million cells – per second – from a tube of blood. The summary...

Change is good. Once upon a time (that is, back in the 50s and 60s), tired middle-aged and older persons were targeted by ads for...

Science and law intersections sometimes arise in terrible places, but the science remains key. Consider, for example, the new well-known...

It’s good to see the US government building on lessons learned from past investments in big science. The latest target apparently is...

(The image is courtesy of the Danish National Biobank.) Recent articles about genetic investigation of the Irish potato famine lead to...

For Valentine’s Day, no law but some insights on the science of romance drawn from this full text online article by University of Notre...

Will endocrine disrupters become "the next asbestos?" Consider the following on the topic: "Human and animal life is widely exposed to...

Pictured above is an old fashioned epipen. It’s used to dispense a cheap drug when needed. The device is pictured because this week...

An ongoing reality is that government monies are key catalysts for science and new products, which in turn lead to more jobs. For...

(Image courtesy of Johns Hopkins press release and AAAS Translational Medicine/AAAS) Stem cells. Some scoff, but their usefulness is...

2012 ends with a new paper illustrating the power of genomics to find a likely cause of diseases such as cancer. In short, researchers...

(Image courtesy of Nature) _______________________________________________________________________________ As 2012 exits, here’s a brief...

23. It’s a number made special by Michael Jordan. But now 23 also has special meaning for persons facing T-cell lymphoma. The number...

The Centers for Disease Control recently issued a report quantifying the increase in diagnosed diabetes as having doubled in 15 years...

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An egg and cheese "breakfast sandwich is a time bomb in a bun." So says a new press release from …. a plaintiff’s firm ? No. The...

(Image from NIH) Wow. Researchers figured out a way to remove the extra copy of chromosome 21 that is the cause of Down’s syndrome....

Western Kenya, Ugenya District. One World Futbol is the game ball. (Photo: Tiba Foundation) A good news story about science, children,...

As the US exits the confrontational world of political campaigns, it’s refreshing to read a story about cooperation and support. Both...