Category: Academia
Continued misuse of the M.D. Anderson name by bottled water multilevel-marketing companies draws legal action this week in US District Court. I found at least some of the data on the "testing" of their water on in vitro release of pro-inflammatory lipids from cultured cancer cells - guess what might happen if one puts cultured cells into water or 50/50 water and media?
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Category: Infectious diseases
Denise Gellene in the New York Times is reporting this morning that Scottish physician, Sir John Crofton, passed away on 3 November at age 97. Crofton is best known for implementing a combination drug regimen to treat tuberculosis, the insidious...
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Category: Health Care
Sex for socialists?
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Category: K-12 education
A Helios Education Foundation grant to provide master's degrees and other training for Florida's secondary school educators.
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Category: Why Things Are
I already Googled it without an answer. Any marketing genius want to weigh in?
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Category: Bioethics
Is it "extreme" that I chose to single out and honor the donor of the cell line that made it possible for my PhD research 20 years ago?
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Category: Academia
It was twenty years ago today. . .
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Category: Academia
What advice do you have for playing nicely in the academic sandbox?
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Category: Race in Science and Society
"We all have a common origin: Africa. We were born in Africa, three million years ago, which should invite us to brotherhood."
Yves Coppens, member of the Lilian Thuram Foundation Scientific Committee
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Category: Academia
"Physicians can be the first line of defense against substance abuse and addiction, but they need the resources and the training," said NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow. "Our long term goal is for doctors to incorporate screening for drug use into routine practice like they currently screen for other diseases; to help patients that are abusing to stop; and to refer more serious cases to specialized treatment."
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