AquaBounty Technologies made big news when they announced they were getting close to approval for their fast-growing transgenic salmon, but this isn't the only transgenic project with its eyes on our food supply.

Among stem cell policy changes instituted since U.S. President Barack Obama took office, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) made a linkurl:controversial move;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57274/ to not renew funding of a key stem cell bank established at the linkurl:WiCell Institute;http://www.wicell.org/ in Wisconsin. Many scientists worry that without a national center to distribute human embryonic stem cell lines to researchers, the availability, cost and quality of cell line

A blind, cave-dwelling amphibian appears to live for more than 100 years, an inexplicable feat that may eventually (when explained) provide insights into aging in other species. The "human fish", or olm. Scientific Name: Proteus anguinusImage: Yann VoituronBut first, scientists have to unravel the mystery of how the species -- known as "human fish" -- achieves such longevity. "We cannot, at this time, say how this animal manages to survive such a long time," said eco-physiologist linkurl:Yann

Fishy x-rays delight visitors to Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences

Dead fish find new life in a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

At the heart of a feverish debate over the validity of a linkurl:recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) of centenarians;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57543/ is the authors' possible misuse of gene chips in different testing groups, part of an ongoing issue affecting other GWAS research. How this variation might impact the validity of the longevity findings, however, including the 150 SNPs associated with extreme longevity, is unclear. SNP chips are at the center of the longev

Extreme longevity is associated with a select group of genetic markers, according to a new study of centenarians, people living at least 100 years. Using these markers, researchers can predict a person's ability to become a centenarian with 77 percent accuracy. Researchers say they can predict yourlikelihood of becoming a centenarianwith 77 percent accuracyImage: Flickr, user linkurl:Dark_Ghetto28;http://www.flickr.com/photos/dark_ghetto28/407953159/ "Exceptional longevity is not this vacuous

In order to progress, should the field of immunology look to other organ systems such as the brain and gut, or should it focus its efforts on all that remains unknown about the immune system itself? Macrophage cell in early stages of infectionwith African swine fever virusImage: Wikimedia commons"The major advancements in any field come when branches of science collide," said linkurl:Kevin Tracey,;http://www.feinsteininstitute.org/Feinstein/Laboratory+of+Biomedical+Sciences an immunologist at