Cities, counties, states; every political entity in our country is driving to develop a biotechnology presence in its respective region.
An old saying goes, "Success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan."
The nanotechnology vision of tiny microrobots that could move inside the body carrying out complex surgical repairs has been touted incessantly until it has become a clich?.
A powerful film will have a hundred times the impact of a touchy-feely commercial.
At this time there are no effective diagnostic tests for cancer that are rapid, economical, highly specific, and highly sensitive. This deficiency means that many cases of malignancy go undetected until long past the time of effective treatment. Much cancer research, including investigations carried out by both the academic and private sector, is focused on combining therapy and diagnostics as "theragnostics."
In March of 1932, socialite and millionaire playboy Eben M. Byers died of a horrible and mysterious disease, his body corroded until his bones began to shatter apart. Strikingly handsome in his youth, by the time of his death a series of last ditch operations had eliminated the lower part of his face and reduced him to a distorted shadow of his former self. His bizarre death was the result of his addiction to a quack cure, radium-laced water.