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.
JThe holy grail of influenza vaccines is a flu vaccine that works year after year. That’s called durable immunity. Now, we get a new shot every year because flu strains change. Each year, scientists select three to four flu viruses to include in the annual vaccine. Most times, they get it right, but when they’re off, we have a bad flu year... More »
For years scientists have been working with a large multi-generational Columbian family to help understand Alzheimer’s Disease. They have a mutation called paisa that causes many in the 6,000 member clan to develop dementia in their 40s or even younger. But among them, one got a mild case of dementia at the later age of 67. When he died at 74 from pneumonia, the family donated his brain for study... More »
During a disease process, our genes can be silenced which means they can’t do the work they were meant to do. In colon cancer, when a gene called P-sixteen is silenced, our risk for the cancer goes up...More »
