It permeates everyday life. Yet the understanding of advances in biomedical science is limited at best. Few people make the connection that biomedical science is medicine and that biomedical scientists are working today for the medicine of tomorrow. Our weekly five-hundred word newspaper column and two-minute radio show provide insights into a broad range of biomedical science topics. Medical Discovery News is dedicated to explaining discoveries in biomedical research and their promise for the future of medicine.
Each release is designed to stimulate listeners to think, question and appreciate how science affects their health as well as that of the rest of the world. We also delve into significant biomedical discoveries and portray how science (or the lack of it) has impacted health throughout history.
Thanks to an engineered blood cell, a Mississippi mom watched her son play football for the first time. Victoria Gray received stem cell therapy to treat her sickle cell disease. The painful blood disorder forms the hemoglobin inside red blood cells into sickle shapes... More »
What do llamas and nurse sharks have in common? Their antibodies just might make our immune system more effective at fighting off disease. That’s because these animals’ antibodies are half the size of human antibodies... More »
For intensive care doctors, covid-nineteen offers an eerily similar look at how doctors sixty years ago fought to save patients from another viral disease, polio. And this shared experience is poignant because that’s when intensive care medicine was born, thanks to a Danish doctor... More »
