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There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
In writing literally hundreds of stories this year, two BioSpace writers, Alex Keown and Mark Terry, found certain stories particularly intriguing or impactful. Some of those were such big topics that they were covered over a series of stories. Looking back at 2018, here are their Top 10.
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
It seems like every time we turned around this year, there was an exciting or—on a more visceral level, “Hey, that’s cool!” science story. Here’s a look at the top 9 really cool life science discoveries of the year, from outer space, to peanut allergies, to tortoise genomes.
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
Talk about a welcome Christmas present! Researchers at Flinders University in Australia, working with mice, removed a single gene known as RCAN1 and then fed them a variety of diets, including a high-fat diet. The mice did not gain weight, even after dramatically overeating high-fat foods over several weeks.
Researchers have hunted for years to find a commonality across all cancers, a so-called “silver bullet” that ties them all together. Researchers from the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have identified a nano-scaled DNA signature that seems to be common to all cancers. This has the potential to be used as an early cancer detection test, what is often called a liquid biopsy.
It should come as no surprise that not all information on the internet is reliable. It’s a largely unregulated wild, wild west that allows for anyone to put up any content they wish to. Which can be a particular problem when it comes to health-related content.
The new funding of $5 million per year for two years through to 2021 from the Industry Growth Centres initiative was announced today by Industry, Science and Technology Minister, Hon Karen Andrews MP at the Growth Centre Showcase at Parliament House in Canberra.
Asia-Pacific specialist CRO Novotech announced today that clinical staff numbers in its Seoul, South Korea centre are now at 41, with 81 clinical research projects now completed.
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