Genetic Differences That Cause Childhood Eye Disease

piggy submitted, created time 2 months 4 days (www.sciencedaily.com)

ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2008) — Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have unlocked part of the mystery underlying a childhood eye disease. New research shows how children with some types of glaucoma end up with missing or extra pieces of DNA.

The missing or extra bits of DNA are called copy number variations (CNVs). The U of A research team had previously shown how they play a major role in causing some types of pediatric glaucoma – a disease that can lead to blindness

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Vaporization provides safer delivery for medical marijuana

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nature.com)

Marijuana is used as a painkiller, appetite stimulant and nausea suppressant in patients with glaucoma, AIDS, MS and who are on chemotherapy, but smoking introduces harmful carcinogens and ingestion can degrade the active components. Still, I'm somehow not surprised that this study comes out of UC San Francisco.

Vaporization works on several other whole-plant substances. I heard that a company or two was working on an insulin inhaler for a while, but I don't think they had much luck.

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