Monthly Archives: July 2013

Trending Now…

Posted on July 29, 2013 by hgcayman

Trending Now… For a brief moment, during Wednesday last week, the phrase “Omega-3 Prostate Cancer” was at the top of the list of trending topics on Yahoo. It took the curious reader to links like this: Fish oils may raise … Continue reading →

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700,000 year-old Thistle Creek horse eclipses Denisovan record

Posted on July 12, 2013 by hgcayman

Until last month, the most ancient whole genome ever sequenced from the DNA residues extracted from fossilized bone was from a polar bear.  Continuously frozen in ice for about 120,000 years on Svalbard Island, Norway, this polar bear jaw helped … Continue reading →

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The Big Chill

Posted on July 10, 2013 by hgcayman

Late in the summer of 2012, healthy non-identical twin girls were born to a 25 year-old California woman and her same-sex partner. The biological father, aged 92 at the time of the birth, was a semen donor. His gametes had … Continue reading →

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Open Source Medicines

Posted on July 3, 2013 by hgcayman

The process of drug development has a high rate of attrition. Only 20% of the compounds that enter human clinical trials reach final approval – and for each of these candidates, there are nearly one hundred substances already discarded by … Continue reading →

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