Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/ntN4U0O6tM8   Today’s medical discoveries that point to future therapy: A Blood Test Can Reveal Your Biological Clock Genetically Engineered Cancer Immunotherapy  A Thumb-sized Device Detects Bad Breath Spider Venom Rescues Damaged Hearts Rapid Smartphone Diagnosis of Infection     University of Colorado at Boulder physiologists announce a strategy for determining the settings of your internal biological clock, your so-called circadian rhythms, from a single blood test.  This info can help determine the best time for various therapies.  By measuring the levels of some 65 metabolites in the blood, the researchers could pinpoint volunteer’s circadian phase.  The test’s accuracy was within one hour of a gold standard melatonin analysis.   Cancers protect themselves by triggering Tregulating or Treg cells to inhibit killer T cells.  British and Italian geneticists have teamed to genetically turn off a family of enzymes called PIP4k that the Treg cells need to effective control good T