Stem cell specialists face questioning
...ople outside the field can take part in a full and frank debate of the issues surrounding stem cell research. Among the speakers at the conference is Shinya Yamanaka, whose team at Kyoto University in Japan is pioneering ways of producing stem cells from adult human cells and therefore avoiding the need ...NIEHS Director unveils new strategic plan for environmental health sciences
... Dr. Schwartz. "We will continue to have open and frank discussions with members of the public, researchers, community advocates, and practitioners as we set priorities and take advantage of new opportunities that may come our way."...Honeybee decision-making ability rivals any department committee
...ing methods, which include an open forum of ideas, frank "discussions" and friendly competition, just might help human committees "achieve collective intelligence and thus avoid collective folly," conclude the researchers. Whether the quorum-setting method of aggregating independent opinions could substit...Antibiotics may not be enough to stop recurrent gastric lymphoma caused by Helicobacter pylori
...occurred in 35% of all infected animals. However, frank MALT lymphoma was more prevalent in re-infected animals (44%) than in primarily infected animals (25%). Transcription profiling identified B cell markers in mice that had been infected at any point in time, even after successful antibiotic treatment...Immune cells' genetic 'jam session' is controlled by cell division machinery
...ntually be repaired improperly. "This can lead to frank genomic rearrangement that is no longer limited to the place where recombination is supposed to take place, and that in turn can eventually lead to certain lymphomas," says Desiderio. Jiang, now a postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University, r...