Chronic pain, cats ‘n sweets and a promising European myeloma cooperation project…
Posted Jan 05 2012 12:28pm
An important article in the January 2012 issue of “The Scientist” magazine discusses possible treatment solutions for chronic pain: http://goo.gl/7pI5V
Mystery solved: why cats don’t crave sweets but do love mushrooms: http://goo.gl/y1iVW No, nothing to do with myeloma…but I do read other stuff, too. For example, this fun thing on English pronunciation: http://goo.gl/biYAa
Last but not least, a blog reader (thanks!) brought this bit of promising news to my attention: http://goo.gl/HUa99 In a nutshell, 12 European research centers have decided to work to find out the following: 1. why myeloma cells become resistant to treatments; 2. why 99% of the patients who bear a precursor of the myeloma cells, stay perfectly healthy while the unlucky 1% develop the disease which in most cases is still incurable, and 3. how myeloma cells interact with their environment. Click on the above link for more details. Very interesting…And doesn’t this project sound a lot like Open Access? (Remember my October-November posts on JQ1?) It does to me…
So let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope that something wonderful (and super useful!) will result from this cooperation…
An important article in the January 2012 issue of “The Scientist” magazine discusses possible treatment solutions for chronic pain: http://goo.gl/7pI5V
Mystery solved: why cats don’t crave sweets but do love mushrooms: http://goo.gl/y1iVW No, nothing to do with myeloma…but I do read other stuff, too.
For example, this fun thing on English pronunciation: http://goo.gl/biYAa
Last but not least, a blog reader (thanks!) brought this bit of promising news to my attention: http://goo.gl/HUa99 In a nutshell, 12 European research centers have decided to work to find out the following: 1. why myeloma cells become resistant to treatments; 2. why 99% of the patients who bear a precursor of the myeloma cells, stay perfectly healthy while the unlucky 1% develop the disease which in most cases is still incurable, and 3. how myeloma cells interact with their environment. Click on the above link for more details. Very interesting…And doesn’t this project sound a lot like Open Access? (Remember my October-November posts on JQ1?) It does to me…
So let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope that something wonderful (and super useful!) will result from this cooperation…
Written by Margaret
January 5th, 2012 at 10:28 am