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Création d’une souris insomniaque
Vendredi 23 Mai 2008 - 09:46 - 6 mois depuis - 30 lectures - Presse généraliste - Nouvel Observateur Sciences Caractérisée par des difficultés à s’endormir et des réveils nocturnes, l’insomnie est un trouble du sommeil qui handicape la vie de tous les jours. Des chercheurs du centre médical de l’Université du Texas ont réussi à créer une souris mutante qui mime ce désordre du sommeil. Cette découverte devrait permettre de mieux comprendre les mécanismes de l’insomnie et fournir un modèle animal pour développer des traitements efficaces. |
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Web Features: Self-Experimenters: Daughter of MRI Researcher Offered Her Brain for Virtual Dissection
Mardi 18 Mars 2008 - 22:00 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - 30 lectures - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American Most adolescents' fond remembrances of childhood would not include lying motionless for spans of five to 10 minutes in the narrow confines of a giant, clanging machine. For Alexandra Giedd, known in her family as Sasha, it was an eagerly anticipated ritual. |
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Web Features: Working around the Mendelians: A Q&A with Michael Wigler
Mercredi 16 Janvier 2008 - 22:01 - 10 mois, 1 semaine depuis - 30 lectures - Cancer - Scientific American When Michael Wigler saw researchers using classical genetic methods "breaking their teeth" on the underpinnings of autism, he took a different approach. By looking at large genetic events, he developed a unified theory of autism that would recharge the field. |
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News: Father of Breakthrough Cancer Therapy Dies
Mardi 15 Janvier 2008 - 16:00 - 10 mois, 1 semaine depuis - 30 lectures - Cancer - Scientific American Judah Folkman, "the father of antiangiogenesis," a way to starve tumors of their blood supplies, died yesterday from an apparent heart attack. He was 74 years old. |
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An Easier Way Up
Lundi 26 Mai 2008 - 21:00 - 5 mois, 4 semaines depuis - 30 lectures - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) If you're like lots of casual weekend cyclists, distance doesn't throw you. You can crank out 20, 30 miles easily on the bike path. But what gets you down, admit it, is going up. |
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Scientific American Magazine: Chromosomal Chaos and Cancer
Samedi 14 Avril 2007 - 22:00 - 1 année, 7 mois depuis - 30 lectures - Cancer - Scientific American When I first began to study cancer as a young postdoctoral fellow in the early 1960s, it looked to leading scientists as though viruses could be the cause of most, if not all, malignancies. That idea was based on the discovery of several tumor- and leukemia-producing viruses that could infect a host cell and insert their own genetic material into its genome, sparking a cancerous transformation and proliferation of the cell. I was optimistic and naive enough to hope that if researchers could understand the exact molecular mechanisms by which such viruses caused cancer, we could develop vaccines to eliminate one of humanity's most dreaded diseases. |
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Covering Your Own Health
Samedi 15 Mars 2008 - 21:00 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - 30 lectures - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) Health care insurance is key to a family's financial security, perhaps second only to a paycheck. For the vast majority of workers, medical coverage comes through an employer. But more employers, particularly smaller ones, say it is too expensive to provide health insurance for workers. As a resu... |
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Teaching Kids a Healthy Way to Start the Day
Mercredi 12 Mars 2008 - 21:00 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - 30 lectures - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) A balanced breakfast is a routine start of the school day for District Heights Elementary students, who recently shared the meal with someone who appreciates its scholastic and nutritional benefits: John E. Deasy, the county school superintendent. |
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Santé - Tatouages, piercings… l’infection guette - France Soir
Vendredi 04 Janvier 2008 - 20:02 - 10 mois, 3 semaines depuis - 30 lectures - Presse généraliste - Google santé france Dans un rapport publié récemment, l’Académie nationale de médecine dresse le bilan des complications médicales liées aux tatouages et aux piercings. Des actes chirurgicaux réalisés parfois dans des conditions d’hygiène douteuses. ... |
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Franchise médicale : Premières réactions - Come4News
Vendredi 04 Janvier 2008 - 08:46 - 10 mois, 3 semaines depuis - 29 lectures - Presse généraliste - Google santé france La Franchise médicale est désormais entrée en vigueur et force est de constater l'hostilité de la population envers elle. Voici quelques confidences que nous avons reçues... Annie, 53 ans et mère au foyer : "Je refuse de payer cette franchise médicale ... |
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