NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 30th May 2008 04:13 PM GMT] Brazil's Supreme Court upheld legislation yesterday (May 28) that allows research on embryonic stem cells, according to the Associated Press.
Six of the 11 court judges voted to maintain a 2005 law legalizing embryonic stem cell research, and turned down a petition arguing that the law was unconstitutional because it violates the right to life. The remaining... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 29th May 2008 10:28 PM GMT] Zookeepers in England are using blood-sucking insects to collect blood samples from zoo animals, according to the BBC. The bugs may allow routine health checks without the use of anesthetics.
Rather than needles and syringes, veterinary officers at the London and Whipsnade Zoos are taking advantage of the voracious appetite of South American ... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 28th May 2008 07:26 PM GMT] Greater coordination between Europe's biobanks is "urgently needed," says a group of leading European scientists in a policy briefing published yesterday (May 27) by the European Science Foundation (ESF).
Europe has many large biobanks -- repositories of biological samples and... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 19th May 2008 10:00 PM GMT] Mitotic cell divisions, long thought to produce two identical daughter cells, are not entirely equal, according to a new study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Proteins destined for degradation are preferentially inherited by one cell over the other, the researchers found.
"We hit on an observation that people had missed for 100 years," said ... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 15th May 2008 03:57 PM GMT] Disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk has set up a biotechnology firm in Seoul for cloning animal pets and producing organs for transplant, according to Agence France Presse.
Hwang was banned from research using human eggs following claims that he cloned the first human embryo that were later shown to be Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 13th May 2008 04:48 PM GMT] British parliamentarians voted to allow the controversial human embryo bill to continue to the next stage of debate yesterday (May 12), according to Agence France Presse. Just nine members of the governing Labour party voted against the bill, which passed by 340 votes to 78.
On Sunday (May 11), it also emerged that a team at Cornell University's Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility led by Nikica... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 9th May 2008 09:24 PM GMT] A former postdoc at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) falsified and fabricated DNA sequences and methylation status in unpublished data about a tumor suppressor gene, a UNMC investigation, in conjunction with the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), has found.
From 2002-2005, Lois Bartsch worked in James Shull's laboratory at UNMC, researching the... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 8th May 2008 09:33 PM GMT] Victimless Leather, one of the works on show at the Museum of Modern Art's Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition, has claimed a victim: itself. Exhibition curator, Paola Antonelli, pulled the plug on the piece's life-support system last week, effectively "killing" the project, according to The Art Newspaper.
Victimless Leather was a miniature... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 8th May 2008 05:33 PM GMT] If you're thinking of buying flowers for mom this Sunday, beware of nature's seductive marketing. A new study published on-line this week in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology shows that flowers flutter in the wind to be attractive. But this floral advertising is not aimed at mother-loving children. Instead, researchers in the UK suggest, flower "waving" is a hitherto unrecognized way that plants entice... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 2nd May 2008 07:37 PM GMT] The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has agreed to reassess controversial treatment guidelines for Lyme disease after an unprecedented antitrust investigation was launched against the group last year, according to the Wall Street Journal Health Blog.
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