The Translational Science Corp

02/13/2019

Study is based on 20,860 sketches drawn by children over 5 decades

01/06/2019

A proposed reform would exempt many of the most dangerous products from clinical trials.

11/25/2018

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with funding from the Department of Defense, want to speed up the clinical trial process with a device that could enable researchers to test new drugs on organ tissue grown in a lab instead of on humans and animals. Called “body on a chip,.....

10/11/2018

"On April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine. “Well, the people, I would say,” Salk responded. “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”"

10/05/2018

Frances H. Arnold was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work conducting the directed evolution of enzymes.

09/07/2018

Jocelyn Bell Burnell's work led to the discovery of pulsars. She plans to use her prize money to fund scholarships for women and minorities.

03/22/2018

NIH gets $3 billion increase, and other agencies get raises too

03/22/2018

How do you appoint someone who falsified data the head of one of our nation's premier research institutions? I have worked with the whistleblower, Dr. Hendrix on a number of projects. If he says there was a problem, there was a problem.

This is not just an issue of dishonesty. Clinical research is collaborative and incremental; it builds on the previous work of others. When you falsify data you lead other researchers down a rabbit hole. As Dr. Hendrix so aptly stated faulty data can create major setbacks. "It's a huge waste of funds," he said. "But just as importantly, it diminishes trust, which is essential in science. If truth is eroded, then the whole enterprise falls apart."

Take the time, invest in the regulatory infrastructure and do it right.

Critics say the Trump administration failed to properly vet Dr. Robert Redfield.

03/14/2018

Such a loss

A physicist and best-selling author, Dr. Hawking did not allow his physical limitations to hinder his quest to answer “the big question: Where did the universe come from?”

01/15/2018

Lean people were especially responsive to exercise’s effects on the bacterial makeup of our guts.

01/12/2018

The idea is that a single capsule could deliver a week's worth of medication — contained in a six-pointed device that's folded up in a capsule.

12/29/2017

In 1793, French scientist Joseph Dombey boarded a ship bound for the United States carrying with him a standard kilogram weight. Thanks to pirates, he and the weight never arrived.

12/16/2017

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysts have been told to omit words such as "vulnerable," "transgender" and "evidence-based" from an upcoming budget. Critics say it amounts to censorship.

12/08/2017

How much do we really know about "gravity" anyway?

11/22/2017

Biologist Sally Le Page couldn't believe it when she heard a folk magic practice was being used to look for water mains in 2017.

11/08/2017

Where "cut cut cut" could mean an increased tax bill of over $10,000 for every year in graduate school.