Suing Your Grad School, And Your Professor
As anyone who's negotiated with them knows, Harvard plays hardball when it comes to patent rights. But so do the university's students, apparently. C&E News has a report on Mark Charest, a former graduate student in the Myers lab, who is suing the university over patent royalties.
Myers, Charest, and others reported a new synthetic route into the tetracycline antibiotics, and this led to a new company (Tetraphase), which is developing these in the clinic. The dispute is over how the royalties are divided up: Charest, in his legal complaint, claims that the university forced him in 2006 to take a lower share than he consid...
Source: In the Pipeline - July 8, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Patents and IP Source Type: blogs
Wheat elimination: A first week experience
Patti posted this wonderful description of her and her son’s experience in their first week of wheatlessness:
One week on the Wheat Belly diet has come and gone. Here is how it is working at our house:
I (mom) feel so good. I no longer need an afternoon nap, I have lost the squishy fat around my middle (I am not overweight, so the squishy thing was driving me nuts!). I’m drinking more water; because now I can tell when I am thirsty and hungry. Best of all, my thoughts are more positive and my emotional resilience has increased. This is particularly good because I have a 14-year old son.
The 14 year old son is foll...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 29, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat-elimination success stories Source Type: blogs
Marilyn Roberts explains about antibiotics in animal feed
Antibiotics in animal feed encourages drug-resistant bacteria
I HAVE spent my professional life discovering how disease-causing bacteria resist antibiotic treatment. The public should understand that antibiotics can treat bacterial infections, but not viruses, and the full prescription must be taken. Everyone using antibiotics shares the responsibility for increased bacterial resistance, so they must also take a role in using these important resources responsibly.
Yet drug-resistant bacteria emerge not only because people take the drugs, but also from the drugs’ use in agriculture. Worldwide, the livestock industry con...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 21, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
IBM will save the planet with this magical hydrogel - NOT
Well, press releases can drive me crazy. And this one is one of the worst I have seen in a while: IBM News room - 2013-01-24 IBM and The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Develop New Antimicrobial Hydrogel to Fight Superbugs and Drug-Resistant Biofilms - United States
This new fangled gel they have made they are very proud of. That is good. Pride in ones work is a good thing. But getting the science wrong and making misleading statements is not. Some statements I have issues with include
Able to colonize on almost any tissue or surface, microbial biofilms - which are adhes...
Source: The Tree of Life - January 26, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
