Lou Gehrig's group dangles million-dollar bait for biomarker search

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Avichai Kremer suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, a neurodegenerative illness that attacks motor neurons and leads paralysis and death usually within five years after diagnosis has along with two of his friends, announced Prize4Life, a new philanthropic organization which would award $1 million to anyone who could come up with biomarker search to cure Lou Gehrig's disease. Kremer explains that he hopes Prized4Life would at least generate publicity for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research even if it does not find a winner.

Science & research, Care and treatment, Research, Research grants, Research funding, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Biological markers

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Informed consent issues hobble cancer genome scheme

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The federal government's Cancer Genome Atlas project faces ethical and practical hurdles as the organizers and an advisory committee composed of external experts debate over matters of informed consent, access to the database and the potential privacy risks associated with an Internet database. Researchers plan to use more than 1,000 tumors from US tissue banks, but the donors have to sign the consent forms to allow the genetic information to be publicly available.

Health aspects, Genetic aspects, Cancer

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Price of mice to plummet under NIH's new scheme

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The US National Institutes of Health wants to build about 25,000 mouse lines as scientists rely on them for research. The prices of mice are expected to increase as making a single mouse line can take up to a year and cost $100,000.

Commodity & service prices, Management dynamics, Management, Prices and rates, United States. National Institutes of Health, Company business management, Company pricing policy, Rats as laboratory animals, Laboratory rats

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