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Monday, June 30, 2014

Precious Therapeutic Cargo Carried by Engineered Red Blood Cells

Genetically and enzymatically modified red blood cells used to carry a range of valuable payloads like drugs, vaccines and imaging agents for delivery to specific sites in the body, have been created by Whitehead Institute scientists. "We wanted to create high-value red cells that do more than simply carry oxygen," says Whitehead Founding...

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Study Says Vaccines Have Low Risk of Serious Side Effects

Serious adverse events like autism, food allergies or cancer that are linked to childhood cancers are really rare, says a review of scientific literature. A host of vaccines commonly given to children under age six were the focus of the systematic review of rigorously conducted studies, published in the peer-reviewed US journal Pediatrics....

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Extraordinary Gains in Bioimaging and Health With 'Molecular Movies'

Observing life processes as they actually happen at the molecular level is possible with the creation of an imaging technology more powerful and really fast, announced researchers on Monday. Chemical and biological actions can now be measured as they are occurring or, in old-fashioned movie parlance, one frame at a time. This will allow...

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Fully Online Study on Pediatric Autism Conducted First Time

The first Internet-based clinical trial for children with autism was conducted by UC San Francisco researchers, establishing it as a viable and cost effective method of conducting high-quality and rapid clinical trials in this population. In their study, published in the June 2014 issue of the iJournal of the American Academy of Child and...

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Did Nicki Minaj Shade Iggy Azalea at the BET Awards?

Uh-oh… looks like another Hip Hop beef is brewing!For the fifth straight year in a row, Nicki Minaj won the award for “Best Female Hip Hop Artist” at the BET Awards and during her acceptance speech, she offered remarks that some people have taken to be a diss toward T.I.’s Hustle Gang artist Iggy Azalea, whose career has really taken off...

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Lexus RX hybrid quietly persists

The luxury hybrid SUV hasn't changed much since its debut almost a decade ago, but maybe the quiet and refined 2014 Lexus RX 450h doesn't have to. Read Mo...

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