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死亡例出たFAAH阻害薬投与のフェーズI、主に発症したのは小脳症候群
from 日経バイオテクONLINE
(2016-11-17 0:00)
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2016年1月、健常人ボランティアにポルトガルBial社のFAAH阻害薬BIA 10-2474を投与したフェーズIで、1人が死亡、ほかに4人が神経症状を経験した（関連記事）。被験者に現れた症状について分析し、この事故の原因を推定した仏INSERMのAnne Kerbrat氏らは、患者には主に小脳症候群と考えられる症状が現れたことを明らかにし、有害事象はオフターゲット効果によることを示唆するデータを得て、The new england journal of medicine誌2016年11月3日号に報告した。
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Synaesthetes who‘see’ calendar hint how our brains handle time
from New Scientist - News
(2016-11-16 22:48)
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People who see calendars laid out in front of their mind’s eye provide clues to how we evolved our ability to mentally navigate through time and space
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Napping before an exam is as good for your memory as cramming
from New Scientist - News
(2016-11-16 20:26)
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Revising for an exam? Students who spend an hour napping do just as well in tests as those who cram? and may even develop a better memory in the long run
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80,000 reindeer have starved to death as Arctic sea ice retreats
from New Scientist - News
(2016-11-16 9:01)
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Knock-on effects of weather have frozen snow in recent years, causing tens of thousands of reindeer to starve? and stoking fears of more famine to come this year
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Watch cockatoo genius chew out a tool from a piece of cardboard
from New Scientist - News
(2016-11-16 9:01)
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A parrot genius known to make tools has now shown that it does this with a specific purpose in mind, making useful items from twigs, wood and cardboard
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Creative cockatoos skilfully make tools from different materials
from New Scientist - News
(2016-11-16 9:01)
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A parrot genius known to make tools has now shown that it does this with a specific purpose in mind, making useful items from twigs, wood and cardboard
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【日経バイオテクONLINE Vol.2563】、薬剤耐性菌から見ると病院は生物進化の実験場では
from 日経バイオテクONLINE
(2016-11-16 8:00)
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医療や食肉の生産・流通において、抗生物質の慎重投与ルールの遵守は喫緊の課題です。報道が相次ぐ、複数の薬剤が効かないスーパーバグの登場は医療や食肉生産・流通の分野では大きな脅威です。世界保健機関（WHO）も厚生労働省も農林水産省も警鐘を鳴らしています。そこに疑問の余地はありませんが、気になるのは薬剤耐性の起源がどこかということです。
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Donald Trump’s climate sceptics are coming to drill, baby, drill
from New Scientist - News
(2016-11-16 1:54)
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Global warming sceptic Myron Ebell and hawkish oil advocate Sarah Palin may shape the climate-shredding agenda in the US, says Matthew Nisbet
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Twisted light beams a greeting over a record distance of 143 km
from New Scientist - News
(2016-11-16 1:45)
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Sending light in a corkscrew can let you encode an unlimited amount of information - now we have transmitted such a code across a greater distance than ever before
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Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery
from New Scientist - News
(2016-11-16 1:26)
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Deep brain stimulation might help treat obesity and depression, but requires extreme brain surgery. Now researchers have managed to use electric fields instead
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