Unbelievable! Glad I wasn't the poor patient. - Sally Church

I wonder if leptin (high protein) diets will be back in fashion? - Sally Church

There were a number of avoidable mistakes made in the TGN 1412 trial. An inexperienced drug company that didn't look for good advice. - Martin Fenner

I'm still amazed they gave essentially an immune booster to normal patients. Mind you, the CRO were experienced. - Sally Church via fftogo

my wife's "competition" - PauloNuin

The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun owners use the weapons on themselves. - Sally Church

I have to admit - I am stunned. Everything is about perception. We hear on nightly news about murders, sometimes murder/sucides. - Ruth Ferguson

Suicide by gun doesn't allow a person a second chance at life. I've known someone and known of others who went the overdose route. Guess what? They're still alive and are glad that they are! - Oliver Ortega Chua

I instinctively believe that suicide is an inalienable right. What could be more personal, more inherently one's own, than your own life? I don't wish suicide on anyone, but if that is truly your desire I don't think anyone has the right to prevent it. I don't particularly feel the need to make an issue out of it, though, because honestly - anyone who is really serious about committing suicide is going to get it done. Its not that hard. I suspect many of the failed suicides are really something else, probably cries for help. - Bruce Williams

too much guns outhere.. - Ben Borges

People finding people via data rather summarises the success of FriendFeed. - Neil Saunders

Indeed it does, Neil - Sally Church

This is a great piece, but I have a minor quibble: data is not so central to day-to-day practice in some scientific communities. Certainly, it's less central in much of theoretical physics, economics and computer science than it is in (say) observational astronomy. - Michael Nielsen

Michael, I use "data" in a rather loose sense of the word. It could be publications of common interest, or some other lower level concept that people can coalesce around. - Deepak

:-) - Mitchell Tsai

The physical structures of the niche, how the niche participates in hematopoiesis and neoplastic growth and what molecules are involved. Understanding of the interactions between stem cells and the niche may be useful for developing therapeutic strategies - Sally Church

I wouldn't disagree with that. ;-) http://www.connotea.org/articl... - Mr. Gunn

Nice one, William. A doc friend sent me the link. - Sally Church

Cancer is an under-emphasised issue in Africa, partly because of the overwhelming burden of communicable diseases. It is a common disease in Africa with 650 000 people, of a population of 965 million, diagnosed annually. - Sally Church

A discovery of a cancer-resistant mouse and their subsequent finding that white blood cells from that mouse and its offspring cured advanced cancers in ordinary laboratory mice has now lead to the identification of similar cancer-killing activity in the w - Sally Church