The Translational Science Corp

13/02/2019

Study is based on 20,860 sketches drawn by children over 5 decades

06/01/2019

A proposed reform would exempt many of the most dangerous products from clinical trials.

25/11/2018

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with funding from the Department of Defense, want to speed up the clinical trial process with a device that could enable researchers to test new drugs on organ tissue grown in a lab instead of on humans and animals. Called “body on a chip,.....

11/10/2018

"On April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine. “Well, the people, I would say,” Salk responded. “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”"

05/10/2018

Frances H. Arnold was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work conducting the directed evolution of enzymes.

07/09/2018

Jocelyn Bell Burnell's work led to the discovery of pulsars. She plans to use her prize money to fund scholarships for women and minorities.

22/03/2018

NIH gets $3 billion increase, and other agencies get raises too

22/03/2018

How do you appoint someone who falsified data the head of one of our nation's premier research institutions? I have worked with the whistleblower, Dr. Hendrix on a number of projects. If he says there was a problem, there was a problem.

This is not just an issue of dishonesty. Clinical research is collaborative and incremental; it builds on the previous work of others. When you falsify data you lead other researchers down a rabbit hole. As Dr. Hendrix so aptly stated faulty data can create major setbacks. "It's a huge waste of funds," he said. "But just as importantly, it diminishes trust, which is essential in science. If truth is eroded, then the whole enterprise falls apart."

Take the time, invest in the regulatory infrastructure and do it right.

Critics say the Trump administration failed to properly vet Dr. Robert Redfield.

14/03/2018

Such a loss

A physicist and best-selling author, Dr. Hawking did not allow his physical limitations to hinder his quest to answer “the big question: Where did the universe come from?”

15/01/2018

Lean people were especially responsive to exercise’s effects on the bacterial makeup of our guts.

12/01/2018

The idea is that a single capsule could deliver a week's worth of medication — contained in a six-pointed device that's folded up in a capsule.

29/12/2017

In 1793, French scientist Joseph Dombey boarded a ship bound for the United States carrying with him a standard kilogram weight. Thanks to pirates, he and the weight never arrived.

16/12/2017

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysts have been told to omit words such as "vulnerable," "transgender" and "evidence-based" from an upcoming budget. Critics say it amounts to censorship.

08/12/2017

How much do we really know about "gravity" anyway?

22/11/2017

Biologist Sally Le Page couldn't believe it when she heard a folk magic practice was being used to look for water mains in 2017.

08/11/2017

Where "cut cut cut" could mean an increased tax bill of over $10,000 for every year in graduate school.

21/10/2017

The Colorado seventh-grader was unimpressed by the options her parents had to test water in their home. So she created a sensor-based device using chemically treated carbon nanotubes to do it faster.

29/09/2017

What a difference a mutation can make. Researchers have pinpointed the single genetic change that has made the Zika virus a fearsome plague to pregnant women and their babies.

29/09/2017

For decades, Zika had been relatively innocuous. In 2015, that changed. A new study unravels the mystery of what caused thousands of cases of microcephaly.

23/09/2017

According to a new report, semen can be a hotbed for viruses.

20/09/2017

Sophia Spencer was extremely fond of bugs, especially grasshoppers. Her peers didn't always appreciate her interest. Entomologists on Twitter, on the other hand, did.

04/09/2017

04/09/2017

Manu Prakash has always loved science, but as a child in India, couldn't afford the traditional tools that would have empowered him to explore his passion. Now he's making sure children all around the world don't go without, by inventing and distributing low-cost, low-tech tools that are accessible…

04/09/2017

The vaccine research has sparked controversy because the lead investigator did not rely on traditional U.S. safety oversight while testing the vaccine.

28/08/2017

Defying U.S. safety protections for human trials, an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including a prominent Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel, are backing the offshore testing of an experimental herpes vaccine.

12/07/2017

A Dutch funding agency is making €3 million available to repeat landmark studies—including one published in 1960

30/06/2017

New memoirs by Roxane Gay, Nina Riggs, and Hida Viloria bring layers of meaning to scientific facts about our bodies, our health and our genders, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.

28/06/2017

The pioneer biochemist feels a responsibility to weigh in on ethical debates about gene editing.