Since you are reading this blog you are probably well aware that President Obama has signed the Executive Order reversing the Bush doctrine that limited Department of Health and Human Services funding of research involving human embryonic stem cells. As provided in the Order “The purpose of this order is to remove these limitations on scientific inquiry, to [...]
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| While ”Bacteria Engineer” might not sound like that great a job title, this small but growing engineering specialty is part of the hot field of synthetic biology. The MIT Technology Review has an interesting article entitled “Engineering Edible Bacteria” and naturally (pardon the pun) it addresses bacteria commonly found in yogurt and other places. Teams of students from MIT, Caltech and many other [...] CUP is not an accronym you see everyday unless you are one of the researchers working in the fight against cancer. CUP means Cancer (or more properly, Carcinoma) of Unknown Primary. It refers to a small subset of cancers (3-5%) where by the time metastatic tumors are identified, the physicians can no longer tell where the cancer started. [...] | ||||||
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