Category Archives: Cayman Chemical

Good Bone

Posted on March 16, 2023 by kirkmike157

Laurie Goodrich is an orthopedic surgeon whose typical patient weighs between 900 and 1,200 pounds. Her OR contains a gantry crane that lifts the anesthetized patient from the hallway floor and swings them gently to rest on an operating table … Continue reading →

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Vitamin F

Posted on August 28, 2015 by kirkmike157

  Sabine is a mouse midwife. She’s looking after about 20 expectant mouse moms, and the prognosis for the babies is not good. 3/4 of them will be born looking relatively normal, and no one is too concerned about these. … Continue reading →

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Lose Weight…and your poop will glow in the dark too!

Posted on November 8, 2013 by caydunbar

Sean Davies had a problem to solve: If you genetically modify enteric bacteria to make them more healthful, how can you quickly check to see if they’re happily growing away inside your experimental rat? The solution he chose could represent the … Continue reading →

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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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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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