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.
Most of the focus on extinction is on animals but we should also care about which plants are lost. But here’s a fascinating twist. One valued plant that had been thought extinct for centuries has been rediscovered in the foothills of central Turkey... More »
Synthetic embryos – those two words just don’t seem to go together. And yet two separate studies accomplished this feat. Even though both studies worked with mouse cells, it’s remarkable that the researchers began with single cells and then saw them grow into embryos...More »
For decades researchers have been studying the cause of Alzheimer’s with a focus on the abnormal presence of two proteins in the brain: beta amyloid and tau. They suspect the proteins damage brain cells, eventually killing them and causing brain shrinkage... More »
