Category Archives: Cancer

The Culture of Caution at NIH and Academia’s Role

Posted on June 29, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

The risk averse behavior stems from a bad model, not just a lack of funding.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Cancer, Funding, NIH | 8 Comments

Oh, This Will Be Fun: Kolata on the War on Cancer

Posted on June 28, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Another story critical of cancer research. Maybe I’m paranoid, but something is going on here.
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Posted in Cancer, Funding, NIH | 6 Comments

“Could You Patent the Sun?”*

Posted on May 18, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Probably not. But genes linked to a high risk of breast cancer? You betcha. The effects of patenting things you didn’t discover.
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Posted in Biotech, Cancer, Genomics, Healthcare | 15 Comments

A Cancer-Causing Virus…Protects Against Cancer?

Posted on June 26, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

That’s right: a virus that occasionally results in leukemia protects you from gastric cancer.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Cancer, Microbiology, Viruses | 4 Comments

Influenza and Low Hanging Fruit

Posted on September 4, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Very few problems can be solved solely by throwing buckets of money at them. Annual influenza is one of those problems than can be solved that way.
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Posted in Cancer, HIV, Influenza, Microbiology, Public Health, Vaccination, Viruses | 1 Comment

Ideologies Have Consequences: the HPV Vaccine

Posted on February 5, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

I want to follow up on a point Amanda made in response to my post about the Texas plan to immune all girls against HPV.
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Posted in Cancer, Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Microbiology, Public Health, Vaccination, Viruses | 15 Comments

A Bad Way to Start the Day

Posted on February 1, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Molly Ivins died this morning at age 62 from her long-running battle with cancer.
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Calling All Oncologists

Posted on January 18, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

There’s an article in the New Scientist about researchers who are using dichloroacetate (‘DCA’) to treat many different cancers.
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Posted in Cancer, Mutation | 12 Comments