The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and The Chicago Council on Science and Technology will host a panel discussion on the crisis in Japan. The world’s eyes are on Japan as it struggles to recover from the largest recorded earthquake in its history. Continue reading “Japan’s State of Nuclear Emergency”
Lately, it seems not a month goes by without the news of another groundbreaking or life extending drug being released to market. From blood pressure to osteoporosis and everything in between, medicines are being approved and stocked at your local pharmacy. But why does it take so long to get that new drug to the corner Walgreens? Continue reading “Drug Discovery: Ingenuity or Serendipity?”
The April 20th BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo well blowout, explosion, fire and oil spill was the most significant economic, environmental and societal disaster of 2010, what were the causes? Continue reading “BP Oil Spill: The Cause & Prevention”
Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon blowout began last summer’s infamous oil spill, one BP executive responded to a technical explanation with the following e-mail:
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Continue reading “BP Oil Spill: Explanation from BP Executive”
Over the past 15 years, the world has witnessed a technology boom that has brought the Internet into our houses and airwaves, Facebook to our daily routine and more computing power in the conventional toaster oven than what was required to get a man onto the moon. Continue reading “Cybr Scrty”
Researchers at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago have published an important paper which describes the potential of using stem cell therapy to repair hearts in children with congenital heart disease.
The study, published in this month’s issue of Circulation (the journal of the American Heart Association), investigates the presence of stem cells in the hearts of these children and how those stem cells might be used therapeutically in the future.
Continue reading “A promising method to repair damaged hearts in children”
