Life Science

Excerpts from two articles relating to the high cost of health and aging in our future. Illness triggers half of bankruptcies Medical bills and illnesses are a major cause of roughly half of this country’s personal bankruptcies, according to the study published today on the Web site of the journal Health Affairs. Touted as the first in-depth analysis of medical ...

I nominate the following as an axiom that all of us involved in a complex disease like cancer should be taught on the first day on the job. "This stuff is harder than it looks… To get understanding out of biology, there’s a lot more there than you’re going to understand right away." It’s from an article by Kristen Philipkoski ...

If you’re looking for a good site for stem cell news and information, check-out  Hype & Hope. It’s got news about stem cell scientific developments and about the competition going on in California, the US, and around the world for scientific and economic leadership in stem cells. The site is run by Zoomedia, a leading life science communications company headquartered ...

This is kind of a follow-on the my earlier post about the intricacies of gene regulation. Those busy little RNAs have a role in editing nucleotide sequences during the transcription/translation steps of turning a gene sequence into proteins. It’s a way that a few genes can generate a lot of different outcomes. From Science Daily. It turns out that human ...