Life Science

Here's a big one: Human Clone Produces Stem Cells

Wired News is reporting that it was announced at the AAAS meeting that an article to be published in the Feb. 13 Science will show that researchers have managed to produce a human clone by nuclear transfer that is the first one reported to have produced hundreds of stem cells. No sperm, no embryo from fertilization. This is a huge ...

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Clinical trials going off both shores

They’re coming from both oceans! In an earlier post I mentioned Austrailian and New Zeland companies that want to do medical trials cheaper than the US cost. Bang, here’s an article from BW about a Hungarian company that’s going right after the clinical trial market. The venture capitalists like what they see: a chance to make a good profit by ...

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The Healthy Promise of Biochips

And they’re very low carb!

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Virtual Reality and biofeedback for cancer patient distraction therapy…..

I know a group of guys that are exploring funding to create a physician office virtual reality system that will have an evolving “world” that is created via biofeedback response from the patient. The initial target market would be physician groups (rad and onco) and would eventually plug into XBOX and Playstation systems. Cool huh? Here is a similar article….. ...

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