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...second challenge, according to Garraway, is the “bottleneck” that occurs when trying to put our expanding knowledge of how genetic mutations cause cancer into practice in the clinic. “Hundreds of these mutations are now known, but the challenge is how we extract relevant information from patients who walk into the clinic without having to sequence all of their genes,” said Garraway. The study presents a streamlined way of detecting mutations in key oncogenes, or genes that promote cancer growth. By adapting a common scientific method called high-throughput genotyping...

Author: By Xianlin LI , CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Researchers Develop New Method of Screening Tumors | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...systematic police brutality is part of the Egyptian security apparatus, and has been on the rise. Torture became widespread in the early 1990s, but was focused on Islamist militants and their families. More recently, though, non-political detainees have also begun to report being tortured as police seek to extract confessions in criminal cases. Activists were enraged last week when an Interior ministry official in an interview to the daily Masri El Youm newspaper blamed independent media for exaggerating torture issues admitting that "the percentage of torture in Egypt over the past few months has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt's Torture Video Sparks Outrage | 1/23/2007 | See Source »

Some companies insist they are determined not to cross ethical lines. Human Bionics, a neuroimaging firm that sells cognitive-assessment and lie-detection services, has hired Illes as an adviser and come up with a 180-page ethics policy that places limits on what the company can extract from the scans and who can access them without a subpoena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: Who Should Read Your Mind? | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...crap.I will drink a BAWLS to achieve nirvana. I have drunken a BAWLS to achieve nirvana.I understand there are those out there who doubt me. They exist as naysayers, who would dare contend that BAWLS is nothing but a minor energy drink, too sweet for enjoyment, with guarana extract too mundane to have an effect.But do you know what guarana even is? Some will tell you that it is the seed found in small Brazilian trees, which contains a thermogenic stimulant for the central nervous system.That is a bald-faced lie. Guarana is G-d’s glory juice.Guarana...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bawls to the Wawl | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...technological advances, some stunningly simple, offer practical and low-cost solutions. The most obvious one is insecticide-treated bed nets, now cleverly engineered to last up to five years. The cost to manufacture, ship and distribute each net is $10. A new generation of medicines based on artemisinin, an extract from a traditional Chinese herbal remedy, is remarkably effective in treating cases of the disease, at a cost of about a dollar per treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $10 Solution | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

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