Sciencerolling: online health television, genetics award and simulation of cell division March 22, 2007
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Genetic testing, genetics, Health, Invention, Medicine, Prevention, science, Web 2.0.trackback
Great links and findings again. Let’s scienceroll!
- Fora TV: science and health channel. Long videos on health care policy, AIDS or the female brain.
- Beyond Genetic & Prenatal Testing- Pre-embryo Testing – Hiding the Results From the Patient (docinthemachnie.com)
What happens in Huntingtons where the patients often have chosen to not even be tested themselves? I have had these patients. We can do what is called “non-disclosing PGD”. Here, we go through the whole process but the results not shared with the patient (by their choice). We choose the unaffected one to replace and the patient does not know if there even were any embryos that were affected. Either they don’t have the disease (and all embryos are healthy) or they do have it (and we just did not put the affected ones back in).
- Pioneering Researcher Dr. Kenneth Lyons Jones Receives Genetics Award From March Of Dimes (medicalnewstoday.om)
Kenneth Lyons Jones, M.D., the renowned pediatrician and birth defects researcher who was one of two doctors who identified fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), will receive the 2007 March of Dimes/Colonel Harland Sanders Award for lifetime achievement in the field of genetic sciences… He has been active in research, teaching, clinical work, and public service for nearly 40 years. Dr. Jones was also awarded a March of Dimes grant for organizing an annual seminar in clinical teratology.
A web site where a computer model of cell proliferation in living tissue is published (www.cell-division-program.com). It is the first work explaining how the structures of the tissues are formed and how cells are replaced by new ones. The whole idea is based on Michael Pyshnov‘s works.
That cell proliferation model is pretty neat!