Eye on DNA Headlines for 14 August 2007

by Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei
Posted August 14, 2007 in DNA and Disease, Eye on DNA Headlines, Personalities with DNA

• Medicine and health blog carnival Grand Rounds 3:47 - Sudden Changes is up at Med Journal Watch.
• Science blog carnival Tangled Bank #86 is up at Fish Feet (ewwww have I ever told you guys how much I dislike feet, esp. fishy ones?!).
• Bayblab has started a cancer research blog carnival and is inviting everyone to submit a post. By the way, I only just realized that Bayblab is not Babylab. Oops.

• Walter at Highlight HEALTH explains cell division with videos on mitosis and meiosis.
• An experimental DNA vaccine for multiple sclerosis (MS), BHT-3009, has been developed that appears to slow the progression of the disease. It works by lowering the level of white blood cells that attack myelin, a fatty sheath coating the axons of nerve cells. The DNA vaccine contains DNA that encodes the human myelin basic protein and is injected directly into the muscles of patients with MS.
• Newsday has a short profile of Michael Wigler, a geneticist at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, who studies the genetics of autism.

Photo: Metallic image of medicine from Wellcome Images under Creative Commons

Tags: genetics, genes, dna, autism, cancer, multiple sclerosis, ms, dna vaccine

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