Kirk Hartley
Stem Cells Used to Build Blood Vessels Outside the Body and Then Transplant Them Into Mice
(Image courtesy of Johns Hopkins. The arrows show the blood vessels constructed from stem cells). Researchers at Johns Hopkins continue...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jul 5, 2013
- 1 min
Bio “Mapping the Great Indoors” – Ecologists Look at Bacteria in Our Homes
It’s not quite the Human Genome Project, but researchers are starting to publish data from a study of bacteria inside 1,400 homes. The...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jun 30, 2013
- 1 min
Scientists Sequence 700,000 Year Old Horse DNA
Scientists continue to broaden the possibilities for "museumomics" and "paleomics." The newest accomplishment is sequencing DNA that is...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jun 25, 2013
- 1 min
A Silicosis Case Report and Cite to LeRoy Gardner’s 1936 Paper
A reminder of when medicine was built around case reports. A now online case report on a case of silicosis, published by the Cleveland...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jun 25, 2013
- 1 min
MicroRNA Science – The Art and History
MicroRNA are now known as increasingly important in understanding cancer, and so will be taking on new roles in litigation involving...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jun 14, 2013
- 3 min
SCOTUS Unanimously Rejects “Patent Think” – Gene Patents Rejected for BRCA Genes
SCOTUS is often fractured these days, but yesterday managed to unanimously and correctly reject patents on genes in the Myriad case. Why?...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jun 10, 2013
- 1 min
Changes in Science – 1986 Cleveland Clinic Case Study of a Cystic Mesothelioma
Times and science change. It appears the Cleveland Clinic apparently recently brought online old editions of its own Cleveland Clinic...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jun 2, 2013
- 2 min
Visualizing Cancer, and ASCO 2013
(Image of a lung cancer cell. Photo courtesy of National Geographic.) "Seeing is believing" is a phrase learned in youth. It’s a phrase...
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Kirk Hartley
- May 26, 2013
- 4 min
Genomics Overcomes One Tiny Mutation That Was Slowly Trying to Kill a Wheelchair Bound Child Who Fac
(Photo courtesy of TGEN and its Center for Rare Childhood Disorders. Shelby Valint is the child in the center of the picture). The power...
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Kirk Hartley
- May 17, 2013
- 1 min
Human Embryonic Stem Cells Now Cloned
(Image courtesy of OHSU). It’s been done – researchers from Oregon have cloned human, embryonic stem cells. Scientific American and many...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 30, 2013
- 2 min
Bio-Engineered Organs: Regenerative Medicine is Starting to Happen
This morning brings a feel good story that coincides with impressive new science – bio-engineered organs. In this instance, a little girl...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 18, 2013
- 2 min
Next Generation Sequencing Yields a Big Find for Epilepsy Researchers
New tools make for new findings, and sometimes they are profound. An example of a new tool is NGS. Next generation sequencing is one of...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 16, 2013
- 1 min
SCOTUS Skeptical about Myriad’s Gene Patent Claims
By all accounts, SCOTUS did not seem interested in drinking the patent think kool-aid offered by Myriad Genetics to try to justify its...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 15, 2013
- 1 min
The BRACA Gene Patent Case (Myriad) Will be Argued Today
The Myriad case heads back to the US Supreme Court today for oral argument. My hope is that Mryriad’s argument for gene patents goes...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 14, 2013
- 4 min
The Power of Collaboration – Telemorase Revealed – and One of the First to See it Said:
The three-dimensional electron microscopy structure of the complete Tetrahymena telomerase enzyme complex, with previously solved...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 8, 2013
- 2 min
Speak Out for Preserving Science Budgets
Today is the Rally for Medical Research in Washington, DC, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of cancer researchers. The point...
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Kirk Hartley
- Apr 5, 2013
- 1 min
To Catch a Tumor Cell
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...
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Kirk Hartley
- Mar 26, 2013
- 3 min
Working Towards Reversing Age-Related Changes in Blood Stem Cells
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...
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Kirk Hartley
- Mar 6, 2013
- 2 min
The Importance of Autopsies and Scientific Data – a High Profile Example from The Suit Against
Science and law intersections sometimes arise in terrible places, but the science remains key. Consider, for example, the new well-known...
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Kirk Hartley
- Feb 19, 2013
- 1 min
Mapping the Brain – Building on Lessons Learned from Mapping the Human Genome
It’s good to see the US government building on lessons learned from past investments in big science. The latest target apparently is...
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About Kirk
Since becoming a lawyer in 1983, Kirk’s 35+ years of practice have focused on advising a wide range of corporations, associations, and individuals (as both plaintiffs and defendants) on both tort and commercial law issues centered around “mass torts.”
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