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Welcome freelance writer Madison Arenchild!
Madison Arenchild, who relocated to San Diego in October 2016, is a freelance writer for Clinical Research Currents. Madison graduated from UCLA in the department of The Institute for Society and Genetics in 2016, where she studied developmental biology and public health. She also works in digital marketing, and spends her time Read more
CAGED// The Cases For and Against Animal Testing
In this short film, the pros and cons of animal testing from a bioethical and biological standpoint are examined. CAGED was produced and created for a final project for Miramar College’s Journalism 202: Introduction to Mass Communications course. Enjoy!
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FDA Begins Consultation on Two ICH Guidelines
FDA Begins Consultation on Two ICH Guidelines Posted 08 September 2016By Michael Mezher The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued two new International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) guidelines for public consultation: one on multi-regional clinical trials (MRCTs) and one on microsampling in study animals. Once ICH adopts Read more
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San Ysidro Health Center To Enroll Patients In Nationwide Study
The Obama Administration’s Precision Medicine Initiative is a long-term nationwide study aiming to find out how people’s health can be influenced by individual differences in their genetics, lifestyle and environment. Doctors in San Diego are participating to make sure low-income patients of color are included in the research. The project’s Read more
N.I.H. May Fund Human-Animal Stem Cell Research
The National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday that it was planning to lift its ban on funding some research that injects human stem cells into animal embryos…The purpose is to try to grow human tissues or organs in animals to better understand human diseases and develop therapies to treat them. (August 4, The New York Times)
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San Diego scientist on “Brilliant 10″ list
Another San Diego scientist has made it onto a genius list…Liangfang Zhang, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Nanoengineering. Moores Cancer Center , was selected for the Popular Science nationwide search of the 10 most innovative young minds in science and engineering. Nanoparticles can shuttle medicines to diseased tissues with incredible precision, Read more
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In Memory of Robert Tsien
–by Marie Jung On August 24th, 2016, the San Diego community and the rest of the world lost one of the brightest minds to have graced the surface of the earth. Robert Tsien, Ph.D and Nobel Laureate opened up countless doors in the clinical research and medical fields with his Read more
Why CRISPR-Cas 9 is being hailed as the scientific “Breakthrough of the Year”
CRISPR is having a moment.
This week the gene editing system was declared the “Breakthrough of the Year” by editors of the journal Science. A day earlier, Nature named the Chinese researcher Junjiu Huang one of the 10 people who mattered in 2015 for being the first to use the CRISPR system to edit the DNA of human embryos (albeit ones that weren’t viable).
Cancer drug discovery gets a boost from canSAR, large 3D database
The addition of 3D enhancements to the world’s biggest database for cancer research and drug discovery should be a huge boost to researchers looking for more effective ways to develop new cancer treatments.