14Dec/15

Battling the Big C — Part II- No official registry, few donors: Platelet … – The Indian Express

Battling the Big C — Part II- No official registry, few donors: Platelet
The Indian Express
It wasn’t platelet unavailability that killed Arohi, but the Naiks will never forget the stress over arranging for this life-saving blood component through the 10-month treatment, the growing dread before every chemotherapy session over whether a donor

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14Dec/15

Clearance of senescent cells by ABT263 rejuvenates aged hematopoietic stem … – Nature.com


Nature.com

Clearance of senescent cells by ABT263 rejuvenates aged hematopoietic stem
Nature.com
Clearance of SCs in a progeroid mouse model using a transgenic approach delays several age-associated disorders, suggesting that SCs play a causative role in certain age-related pathologies. Thus, a ‘senolytic’ …. (j) Quantification of the

14Dec/15

The world shouldn’t have to rely on the kindness of Bill Gates – The Globe and Mail


The Globe and Mail

The world shouldn’t have to rely on the kindness of Bill Gates
The Globe and Mail
According to Ms. McGoey, this little caper “was only the most recent in a long list of donations that the Gates Foundation has offered to the world’s wealthiest corporations. From Vodafone, a British company notorious for paying zero corporate tax in

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14Dec/15

Bill de Blasio: New Yorkers Owe a ‘Debt of Gratitude’ to Preet Bharara – Observer


Observer

Bill de Blasio: New Yorkers Owe a ‘Debt of Gratitude’ to Preet Bharara
Observer
Mr. de Blasio, speaking to reporters after an unrelated event in Manhattan, said “everyone in Albany needs to do more” to root out corruption. … City politicians in recent years have faced fewer corruption convictions and public financing has the

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