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A slate of natural pharmaceutical products are in the works.
When it comes to nutritional supplements, most people equate “natural” to mean “good” and “safe,” but that’s not entirely true. The natural substance Ephedra, for instance, can be deadly. Still, the perception is based on somewhat-sound logic: if it’s found in natural substances, how could it be bad? The key really isn’t [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Feeling sick? Here’s another good reason to eat oatmeal.
You now have one more reason to “eat your oatmeal.”
Oatmeal contains a substance called beta-glucan, which, in addition to its cholesterol-lowering property, also bolsters your immune system. Its structure is so similar to some common bacteria and yeast that our immune system recognizes it as potentially harmful and immediately begins mounting a system-wide immune [...]
Mitigating the harmful, potentially lethal, effects of the Sun.
At least a couple of companies are working to mitigate harmful effects of overexposure to the sun.
AGI Dermatics’ lead product Dimericine is thought of as more therapeutic than preventative. Its DNA-repair enzyme T4 endonuclease V can actually go through and fix damaged DNA skin cells. This press release describes it in layman’s terms.
Clinuvel’s (formerly [...]
Novel HIV treatment approaches.
The current HIV treatment approaches primarily rely on inhibiting viral HIV attachment/replication to and within healthy cells. There are a few novel approaches I’d like to note here.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Why bird flu might not be so devastating after all, if all goes well.
Should it make its way here, or even worse, advance its ability to transmit from human to human, bird flu–the avian H5N1 subtype virus–poses a lethal threat.
Thankfully, there are a number of vaccine and pharmaceutical companies whose products–at various stages in development–have shown early promise (most in pre-clinical trials) in either preventing or successfully treating [...]
Getting at the “root” of Cancer
Cancer, according to the American Cancer Society, “develops when cells in a part of the body begin to grow out of control. Although there are many kinds of cancer, they all start because of out-of-control growth of abnormal cells.”
Those abnormal cells have managed to slip through the body’s cell cycle, a process where the body [...]
A welcome, with a spot of promise for the future.
Welcome to my just-created blog about the Biotechnology sector.
Perhaps focusing on Biotech might be too limiting, however there will certainly be enough weekly, even daily, information to make this blog of interest to those of us even mildly concerned with health, and how we as humans can better improve upon it.
Just today, the Associated Press [...]
