News: [Entry posted at 31st May 2009 06:18 PM GMT] For the first time, researchers have combined gene therapy and cellular reprogramming technologies in human cells to correct a genetic defect. After taking skin and hair cells from patients with a rare genetic disorder and fixing the aberrant ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 28th May 2009 09:47 PM GMT] Biomedical researchers don't typically rub elbows with rock-'n-roll royalty in the pages of glossy magazines. In fact, they never do. Until now.
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News: [Entry posted at 28th May 2009 05:02 PM GMT] For the first time, human skin cells have been reprogrammed without using DNA, according to a study published online today (May 28) in Cell Stem Cell. Although further ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 27th May 2009 10:00 PM GMT] A new theoretical model of parasite virulence published in this week's Nature puts a chink in the armor of group selection theory, the idea that organisms act ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 27th May 2009 06:01 PM GMT] Japanese researchers have successfully generated the world's first transgenic primates capable of passing on a foreign gene to their offspring. The feat, reported in ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 21st May 2009 05:13 PM GMT] On Tuesday, the world met "Ida" -- a 47-million-year-old primate fossil touted as a "REVOLUTIONARY SCIENTIFIC FIND THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING," according to a press release. The media went berserk. ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 20th May 2009 12:39 AM GMT] Researchers have discovered the basis for the magnetic personalities of migratory ants. These social insects integrate magnetic soil nanoparticles into their antennae to help them navigate the forests of South America, according to a study published ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 14th May 2009 05:21 PM GMT] The retroactive nature of the NIH's proposed guidelines on human stem cell research will exclude funding for many existing stem cell lines that were ethically created yet don't meet the stringent criteria of the proposal's technical requirements, ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 13th May 2009 06:03 PM GMT] The open ocean is teeming with microbial small RNAs that regulate a multitude of environmental processes ranging from carbon metabolism to nutrient acquisition, according to a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 12th May 2009 02:55 PM GMT] Strong sales to academic researchers are helping companies that provide mice, rats, and other model organisms for research weather the global economic crisis, despite a downturn in demand from pharma and biotech.
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News: [Entry posted at 11th May 2009 10:38 PM GMT] Many top tier science journals are going into overdrive to publish data about the emerging swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus epidemic, compressing what is often a multi-month process into just a few days or weeks.
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News: [Entry posted at 11th May 2009 11:25 AM GMT] Researchers have discovered a new category of cancer caused by chromatin recognition gone awry. An aberrant protein that binds to activated DNA-winding proteins drives up gene expression leading to unchecked cell growth, according to a ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 5th May 2009 04:50 PM GMT] Research involving non-human primates was given the go-ahead today (May 5) in an initial vote by the European Parliament, although legislators called for most basic testing on great apes to be outlawed.
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