Given all of the news coverage about the U.S. health-care reform bill dominating the media last week, it's probably no surprise that I, and perhaps …
Category: Biomedical research
How the Scope Image of the Week was made
This video shows how photographer James Duncan Davidson captured picture of eye tissue through a microscope using the camera on his iPhone. His picture was …
Image of the Week: Eye tissue via a microscope and an iPhone
You are looking at eye tissue as seen through a transmission electron microscope. This image was taken by James Duncan Davidson, who made it by …
Geneticists home in on what makes us unique
As a parent who has logged more than my share of frustrating hours with the 'I Spy' series of books my kids love, I've learned …
The bacterial trail you leave on keyboards may be uniquely yours
As has been written on Scope before, for every human cell in your body, there are ten bacterial cells living on or in it. Now …
Stem cells from ordinary skin may treat rare skin disease
A recent New York Times article highlighted advances in applying stem cell technology to treat skin diseases. These techniques may offer a more advanced method …
FDA helping drug companies develop treatments for orphan diseases
Orphan. It’s such a lonely word. And when coupled with the word “disease,” it’s downright scary. The truth is I had never heard of the …
CT images of crocodile mummies scanned at Stanford
Here by popular demand are two very preliminary renderings of one of the Greco-Roman crocodile mummies scanned last week at Stanford. These images were generated …
Study links bacteria in gut to size of a "gut"
Right now there's a sizable colony of microbes roaming around in your gut and it may surprise you to learn that many of those microbes …
Ancient crocodile mummies scanned at Stanford
Conservators at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley are in the midst of reviewing CT images of a pair of crocodile mummies, which …
Baby woolly mammoth scanned for Chicago museum
Apparently mummies aren't the only ancient creatures being scanned these days. Now GE Healthcare has donated time on its MR and CT scanners to The …
Do siestas make you smarter?
I don't know about you, but I've been mourning the loss of afternoon naptime ever since preschool graduation. That is why I was excited to …
Researchers reveal causes of King Tut's death
A combination of bone disease and malarial infection likely killed Ancient Egypt's most well-known pharaoh, Tutankhamun, according to a study published in Journal of the …
Tiny DNA circles advance stem cell therapy prospects
The promise of stem cells sometimes seems no more than a distant glow on the horizon, particularly for patients afflicted with devastating conditions that could …
The cruelty of fraudulent stem cell therapy
Unethical companies are finding desperate patients who are willing to pay big money for unproven stem cell "treatments." This may harm not only patients, but stem cell research itself.
Unethical companies are finding desperate patients who are willing to pay big money for unproven stem cell "treatments." This may harm not only patients, but stem cell research itself.
Count down to stem cell news in 3, 2, 1
Have you ever wondered why big science news (like today's announcement by Stanford stem cell researchers) tends to be published simultaneously by many major media …