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PubPeer, PubLons online peer review sites shake up science publication

Posted on December 3, 2013December 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

New wave of online peer review and discussion tools frightens some scientists
Chris Lee, arstechnica.com

Sites like Publons and PubPeer hope to quicken the pace of scientific conversation. PublonsEarlier this year, I wrote a story about a new HIV/Aids detection kit that was under development. Since that time, the same group has published two more pap…

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New wave of online peer review and discussion tools frightens some scientists | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Seeking Peer Review (studyingjudith.wordpress.com)
Peer Review: An Introduction and Guide (digital-scholarship.org)
A “Stack Overflow of academic research” (umichhon352fall13.wordpress.com)
How to fix peer review (economist.com)

Evolutionary medicine: cold temps increases cancer growth in mice

Posted on December 3, 2013December 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

Chilly temperatures foster cancer growth in mice
Ars Staff, arstechnica.com

Flickr user Duncan HillAt low temperatures, the human body has a hard time. As the cold sets in, blood vessels constrict to maintain heat, and some body parts—like fingers and toes—begin to suffer. Metabolism ramps up to fight the cold and shiveri…

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Chilly temperatures help cancers grow (medicalxpress.com)
Chilly temperatures foster cancer growth in mice (arstechnica.com)

Electrical brain stimulation helps rats with spinal cord injuries walk

Posted on November 10, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

Electric Brain Stimulation Helps Rats With Spinal Cord Injuries Walk | Popular Science
popsci.com

Lab Rat

Janet Stephens via Wikimedia Commons

Stimulating a set of neurons deep in the brain has allowed rats with severe spinal cord injuries to walk almost normally again, a group of Swiss researchers reports in Science…

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Drug may reduce chronic pain for spinal cord injuries (thealmagest.com)
Repaving Old Roads After Spinal Cord Injury (knowingneurons.com)

Finding next MS drug in common industrial chemical, lithium carbonate

Posted on November 2, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

Unlikely Multiple Sclerosis Pill On Track To Become Blockbuster
by Scott Hensley, npr.org

There aren’t very many drugs that are also, essentially, industrial chemicals available in railroad-car volumes, pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe noted on his blog, In The Pipeline, this spring.

But there are a few. One is lithium…

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[WATCH]: Multiple Sclerosis Improve Walking with the GaitAid (findmedicalsolutions.com)
How ‘Sunshine Vitamin’ D May Be Helpful in Fighting Multiple Sclerosis (hopkinsmedicine.org)

Derek Nance eats only raw meat for 5 years

Posted on October 11, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

Gross alert: This guy has eaten only raw meat for the past five years
Holly Richmond, grist.org

ViceDerek Nance.If you slide waaaay down from the Paleo diet on the weird scale, you find Derek Nance. Dude’s been solely subsisting on raw meat for almost six years and, according to Vice, has “never been healthier”:Five years ago, Derek h…

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Raw Food Eating Dangers and Benefits (faqir1983.wordpress.com)
Eating the Paleo Diet: Is it for you? (examiner.com)
Paleo restaurant coming to Boulder … maybe (csindy.com)
Raw McRib Meat Looks Exactly How You’d Expect Raw McRib Meat to Look (gawker.com)

Numerate applies big data to drug design

Posted on October 7, 2013December 24, 2013 by timbatchelder

Numerate Trains Its Drug Design Platform On Huntington’s Disease
Bernadette Tansey, xconomy.com

Bernadette TanseyThe path toward a breakthrough drug often starts with a new insight about the molecular cause of an illness, but only a few of these discoveries lead to new treatments. Steven Finkbeiner at the Gladstone Institutes in San…

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Drug reduces brain changes, motor deficits associated with Huntington’s disease (medicalxpress.com)
Research and Markets: Global Huntington’s Disease Pipeline Highlights – 2014 (biomedreports.com)

Family planning as fertile ground for startups? Clue is the latest entrant

Posted on August 21, 2013August 29, 2013 by timbatchelder

Family planning as fertile ground for startups? Clue is the latest entrant — Tech News and Analysis.

This app can help you get pregnant (venturebeat.com)
5 Things Startups Should Know Before Starting (business2community.com)
Max Levchin’s Glow nabs $6M to get women pregnant and rethink health insurance (gigaom.com)
The next big mhealth opportunity is fertility (and offerings are already abundant) (medcitynews.com)
New iPhone App That Could Replace Contraceptive Pill Soon (scienceworldreport.com)

The Future Of Psychotherapy: $5 Million On Breakthrough – Forbes

Posted on August 21, 2013August 30, 2013 by timbatchelder

The Future Of Therapy: $5 Million On Breakthrough – Forbes.

Psychotherapy via the Internet as good as if not better than face-to-face consultations (medicalxpress.com)
Forbes: 14 Things Successful People Do On The Weekends (bagladyboutiqe.wordpress.com)

Why healthcare needs Apple

Posted on July 26, 2013December 21, 2013 by timbatchelder

Why health care needs Apple
Christina Farr, venturebeat.com

Apple has a huge opportunity to innovate in digital health.

The Silicon Valley technology giant has yet to confirm any new health and fitness gadgets — including its hotly anticipated “iWatch.” If you were hoping yesterday’…

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Is Apple Moving Into Digital Health? (inc.com)
Samsung Smart Watch May Have a Long Way to Go (technologyreview.com)

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