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.
We all get the warning, brush your teeth or lose them forever because once adult teeth come in, we’re done growing any more. Why is that? And can we change this so that lost teeth can be regrown. New research shows one day that looks likely... More »
If you’re a fan of the Alien movies with Sigourney Weaver, she plays the ultimate hero, Ripley. In the fourth movie of the series, there was a “company” effort to clone her and so you saw incubation chambers with floating version of Ripley in various stages of development... More »
When you mom gives you chicken soup, it’s a wisdom of the ages, a millennium, because that’s how long healers have believed it can treat the common cold. But is this supported by science?...More »
