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Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am being interviewed by Howard Hughes this lunchtime! At 12.45 today I am explaing why MBNA is slashing their junk/direct mail budget. Listen in online Should be fun Rod Sloane, No Bull Marketing that Catapults your Business to the Next Level Author of "121 Marketing Ideas to Grow Your Small Business" Available at www.Amazon.com and www.BarnesandNoble.com Phone and Booking Information: T: 020 8840...
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US News (Free subscription) | yesterday
If effective, it would be less invasive than current prenatal exams.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pregnant women worried about their babies' genetic health face a tough decision: get prenatal gene testing and risk miscarriage, or skip the tests and miss the chance to learn of genetic defects before birth. But a new prenatal test could make this dilemma obsolete.
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Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have developed a new prenatal blood test that accurately detected Down syndrome and two other serious chromosomal defects in a small study of 18 pregnant women. If confirmed in larger trials, they say, the test would offer a safer and faster alternative to invasive prenatal tests such as amniocentesis that pose a small risk of miscarriage.
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Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pregnant women worried about their babies' genetic health face a tough decision: get prenatal gene testing and risk miscarriage, or skip the tests and miss the chance to learn of genetic defects before birth.
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Medgadget (Free subscription) | yesterday
A team of clinicians and bioengineers from Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute is reporting an exciting new technology that can revolutionize prenatal screening, and also calm the nerves of many expectant parents. A new technique, that scans fetal DNA present in the mother's blood, can one day replace more invasive, and potentially dangerous, amniocentesis. In addition, the technique...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
CHEVY CHASE, Md., Oct. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have found -- in a small study of 18 women -- a prenatal blood test that accurately detected Down syndrome and two other chromosomal defects. Stephen R. Quake of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and colleagues at Stanford University said researchers have long known that a pregnant woman's blood contains small amounts of DNA from the fetus. The...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. researchers have found -- in a small study of 18 women -- a prenatal blood test that accurately detected Down syndrome and two other chromosomal defects. Stephen R.
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Janet Charlton's Hollywood (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo Credit: Splash NewsShannen Doherty IS a complicated person. In her Radar magazine interview she admitted to being a germaphobe - "but not on the Howard Hughes freak level." And she's very fussy about boyfriends and hygiene. If she...
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HHMI News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
HHMI researchers devise prenatal blood test that accurately detects Down syndrome and two other serious chromosomal defects.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pregnant women worried about their babies’ genetic health face a tough decision: get prenatal gene testing and risk
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Scientific American (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
More than 130 Nobelists have written more than 200 articles for Scientific American . Here's a sampling, along with a look at the prizes themselves [More]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Galenea Corp. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced today the extension and expansion of their research and development collaboration. The two companies have been working together since January 2005 to discover and develop novel therapies for schizophrenia and other central nervous system (CNS) diseases.
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Bookninja (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
As you know, I take the piss out of (at least the Jesusland incarnation of) America whenever I get a chance, but most Americans probably don’t realize that we Canadians take the piss out of ourselves just as often, if not more. Self-deprecation is a form of patriotism up here. Anyway, I note it’s been [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
To understand where fat comes from, you have to start with a skinny mouse. By using such a creature, and observing the growth of fat after injections of different kinds of immature cells, scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University have discovered an important fat precursor cell that may in time explain how changes in the numbers of fat cells might increase and lead...
