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With its latest move, the Obama government has proved that it is getting ready to push up research and development efforts to find cure for cancer. But, it seems that Vice President of the United States Joe Biden was grounding his space metaphor, just a few days after announcing cancer ‘moonshot’.

The 47th US Vice-President used the lofty analogy four months ago. Biden’s son had died of brain cancer a few months before that. The cancer ‘moonshot’ grabbed headlines again last month when US President Barack Obama asked Biden to lead the government’s cancer moonshot task force.

About a month ago, Biden announced the program to end cancer at the Abramson Cancer Center in Philadelphia. At that time, Biden was observed backing away from the metaphor.

On Monday, Beaufort author revealed shocking news of suffering from pancreatic cancer. Through a someway lyrical Facebook statement, Pat Conroy shared the news of suffering from pancreatic cancer.

Conroy came in Beaufort as a military ‘dependent’, a rootless, lowly kind of teenager who arrived as a US Marine Corps fighter pilot’s son.

The tour of Pat Conroy in Beaufort must have been quicker as compared to the touch-and-go landings aviators practice with steely sunglasses on out at the air station, being called Fightertown.

The words by him even showed the home folks what it was that they were attracted towards the Lowcountry.

A research review has suggested that pregnant women, consuming over three servings of fish a week, could face an increased risk of delivering babies, who grow rapidly and become obese during childhood. The mentioned fish intake in the research is more than the maximum recommended by US health regulators.

Earlier studies have associated a pollutant in fish, mercury, for causing harm to the nervous, digestive and immune systems, skin, eyes, lungs, and kidneys. Considering the same, the US Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency have asked pregnant women to restrict intake. They have advice not to take over three servings per week.

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s have grown small human brain replicas to aid the study of neurological diseases in a way that may result into better treatments and even cures for cognitive and neurological ailments.

This is a comparatively fresh field of scientific research that can possibly revolutionize the way the new drugs are tested for effectiveness by conducting drug testing on human cells instead of on lab animals. The method may offer more exact test results and assist in the development of new, more useful drugs.

The genes of the human skin cells were reprogrammed by the scientists to make them akin to embryonic stem cells, which can develop into any type of tissue. Thereafter, these stem cells were nurtured to turn into brain cells.

A latest study suggested that a popular class of heartburn medications could increase senior patient’s risk of dementia. This group of drugs called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), including Prilosec, Nexium and Prevacid, functions by decreasing the amount of acid formed in the stomach.

However, German researchers have discovered that people 75 or above, who take the medications regularly had a 44% increased chance of suffering from dementia, in comparison to seniors not consuming the drugs. The study has also discovered a link, however, and not a cause-and-effect association.

Wake Forest University’s team of scientists has printed out living human body parts, such as ears, muscles and jawbones, using a combination of living cells and a special gel.

The move has come up as an advance on earlier attempts, which included making a plastic scaffold and then trying to get cells to grow in and on it, or that printed out organ shapes that came out as being too floppy and dying, after some time.

The latest approach has mixed live cells with a gel, starting out as a liquid but rapidly hardens to the constancy of living tissue, and layers them in with very small tunnels serving as passages for nutrients for feeding the cells until blood vessels can grow in and perform the job naturally.