Third Rock-backed bluebird bio files IPO plan
Cambridge-based bluebird bio, a developer of gene therapies for severe genetic disorders, on Tuesday filed plans for an initial public offering of ...
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On Extending Mouse Longevity
Here is a popular science article on the many ways to extend life in laboratory mice, and the relevance of that research to human health and ...
Danish scientists 'close' to HIV cure
The Aarhus University Hospital, in Aarhus, Denmark is conducting clinical trials which will test a “novel strategy” where the HIV virus is stripped ...
Discovery helps explain how children develop rare, fatal disease
Biochemistry researchers have published conclusive scientific evidence that the gene ATP7A is essential for the dietary absorption of the nutrient ...
The many faces of the bacterial defense system
Even bacteria have a kind of "immune system" they use to defend themselves against unwanted intruders – in their case, viruses.
How some cancers 'poison the soil' to block metastasis
Cancer spread or metastasis can strike unprecedented fear in the minds of cancer patients. The "seed and the soil" hypothesis proposed by Stephen ...
Researchers discover master regulator that drives majority of lymphoma
A soon-to-be-tested class of drug inhibitors were predicted to help a limited number of patients with B-cell lymphomas with mutations affecting the ...
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Danish scientists say they’re close to a breakthrough in finding a cure for HIV
AARHUS, Denmark -- Scientists and researchers at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark say they believe there will be a breakthrough in finding a ...
At the cost of
At the cost of by Elizabeth Dehart Published Apr 27, 2013 01:01AM MDT Nov. 1, 2011, was the day I found out I carried a deleterious mutation of the ...
South Africa: Professor Receives Highest Honour for Aids Work
[Health-e]On the 27th April 2013 President Jacob Zuma honoured Wits Faculty of Health Sciences Professor Glenda Gray with South Africa's highest ...