Most clones doomed from the start, according to Temple University embryologist
Until scientists can improve the early development of cloned embryos, cloning will remain marginally successful, according to research presented today at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Currently, only 1-5 percent of cloned embryos succeed, and many that do succeed are unhealthy. ...Keith Latham, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Temple University Sch...Dyslexics not doomed to life of reading difficulties
Even though there is evidence that dyslexia has a genetic basis, researchers will report new findings today (Feb. 12) that show children afflicted with the learning disability are not doomed to a life of reading difficulties. ... The brains of dyslexic children can be "jump-started" with a three-week-long instructional intervention to help them use the same brain areas as normal readers, leading...Earth's youngest desert is shown in this July MERIS satellite image of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, over the last 40 years the Aral Sea has evaporated back to half its original surface area and a quarter its initial volume, leaving a 40,000 square kilometre zone of dry white-coloured salt terrain now called the Aralkum Desert.... ...As its water level...Local Approaches To Combating Antibiotic Resistance Are Doomed To Failure
. ... The Chief Medical Officers of the European Union are meeting in Copenhagen next week to assess the strategies needed to prevent and control the emergence and spread of anti-microbial resistant micro-organisms. This week's BMJ has a collection of papers on antibiotic resistance which explain how resistance develops, discuss ways of reducing inappropriate prescribing and assess the changes...