Therapeutic cloning no longer a dream, says scientist who produced first cloned embryonic stem cell
...pean Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology today (30 June) that the work could generate potentially unlimited undifferentiated stem cells. These could eventually be used for tissue repair and transplantation medicine, said Professor Shin-Yong Moon at a media briefing. Professor Moon and his colle...Why does cloning create abnormalities? Scientists take a step towards finding out
...e reproductive cloning of humans, a scientist said today (Wednesday 30 June 2004) at the 20th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. Dr. Takumi Takeuchi, from Cornell University, New York, USA told a media briefing that he and Dr. Gianpiero Palermo's team had comp...Earliest evidence of hereditary genetic disorder discovered by Hebrew University researchers
...pe analyses. The disease appears relatively rarely today (one in 14,000 people in Israel, one in 8,000 in the U.S.). It is much more common in one area of Sweden (one in 700)....Endometriosis: Could angiostatic therapy be the new treatment of the future?
...esearch from The Netherlands and the USA presented today (Monday 28 June) at the 20th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. However, the researchers warned that the work is still at an early stage, with the current investigations taking place in mice, so it would be a...Germans must research the history of reproductive medicine during the Nazi era
...opean Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Monday 28 June). However, it is vital that such research is conducted, because if Germans do not understand what motivated the behaviour of doctors in the past, they will struggle to make decisions about ethical issues that confront doctors and sci...Oxford Journals takes bold step towards free access to research
...vision of Oxford University Press (OUP), announced today that its flagship journal Nucleic Acids Research (...vision of Oxford University Press (OUP), announced today that its flagship journal Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) is to move to a full 'Open Access' (OA) publi...Innovative efforts target epigenetics, molecular imaging
..., part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced it has awarded two new grants to establish Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) at Harvard Medical School in Boston and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. The Harvard and Johns Hopkins centers, like the...Underground carbon dioxide storage reduces emissions
...ty of Science and a co-author on a paper appearing today in GSA Today, a journal published by the Geological Society of America. "We have been able to show that you can safely capture carbon dioxide that would otherwise go back into the atmosphere, and put it back into the ground. It's very exciting work."...Scientist honored for studies of genetic influence on chemotherapy, tumor development
...e director Sujuan Ba, Ph.D., added, "Chemotherapy today remains the most used technique for battling cancer and Dr. Lowe is on the front lines of this research. His research in the genetic understanding of cellular life and death is exactly what will allow us to continue to make gains in how cancer is tr...NIH awards grant for cancer research to the University of Wisconsin
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today the award of a $7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to the University of Wisconsin to help construct a cancer research facility, which will enable basic researchers and clinical investigators to work together to address the causes, pr...New York City study shows newborns more susceptible to pollution than their mothers
... first of its kind in New York City, were released today by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, part of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. These findings are especially notable since evidence from previous studies of laboratory rodents suggests that the fetus i...Energy conservation targets hit by notions of 'comfort'
...aster University. "What counts as normal in the UK today is not considered 'normal' in the USA today, nor would it have been considered 'normal' in the UK even a decade or two ago," says Dr Elizabeth Shove, whose research is published as part of Social Science week. She adds that: "The implications of chan...Origin of West Indian insect eater much older than previously thought
...nched off from their insect-eating brethren, which today includes moles, shrews and hedgehogs, some 76 million years ago. The findings were published in the June 10 issue of Nature. The National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Genetic Diversity in Frederick, Md., spearheaded the research the res...European Commission approves Herceptin + Taxotere as 1st-line therapy in HER2-positive breast cancer
Roche announced today that the European Commission has approved the use of Herceptin (trastuzumab) in combination with Taxotere (docetaxel) in the European Union as a first-line therapy in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer patients who have not yet received chemother...The science and law of torture
...ssionals. Hewill address the definition of torture today in light of currentevents and whether studies speak to its effectiveness inobtaining reliable information. He will also present research ontorture incidents documented by health professionals. Robert Goldman is an expert on the law of armed conflict ...North Shore-LIJ research collaboration with Correlogic Systems to advance ovarian cancer blood test
...ation of pattern recognition in disease detection, today announced a collaboration to advance the final development of a blood test for the early detection of ovarian cancer. This first test using Correlogic's hidden patterns approach and technology is currently undergoing extensive validation. The test ha...Stonehenge study tells pagans and historians it's good to talk
... images of how the site is experienced by visitors today rather than only its imagined past, suggests new r... sponsored by the ESRC. This research is published today as a part of Social Science Week. But the project, co-directed by Dr Jenny Blain of Sheffield Hallam...Harmless virus helps slow HIV by boosting immune proteins
...ly are under development. While many HIV patients today are helped by highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, many become resistant to the drugs. Stapleton said the effect of GBV-C on HIV viral load is similar to that of HAART, though not as potent. The likelihood of resistance, however, is much l...UK researchers develop way of predicting a woman's 'reproductive' age
...University of Edinburgh. The findings are reported today (Thursday 17 June) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[1]. The human ovary contains a fixed pool of primordial eggs, which form in the fourth month of pregnancy. They peak at several million in the five-month foetus ...Assisted reproduction can't compensate for waiting too long to start a family
... until 35 to start trying for a family were warned today (Thursday 17 June) that if they did not conceive spontaneously they could not depend on assisted reproduction to make up fully for the loss of natural fertility after that age. Professor Henri Leridon, a demographer from the French Institute of Healt...