Urgent measures needed to retain our lead in pharmaceuticals
...om a public interest perspective is worried by the controversial implications of large scale population bio banks for public health. The aim of bio banks is to quantify the risk of common diseases associated with different genotypes or combinations of genotypes and environmental factors. "Funders have sought to k...Scientists rid stem cell culture of key animal cells
MADISON - Tackling a pressing and controversial technical barrier in stem cell biology, scientists at the WiCell Research Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have crafted a recipe that allows researchers to grow human embryonic stem cells in the absence of mouse-derived "feeder" cell...NIH to investigate Ohio State University spinal injury course
... federal animal welfare regulations as part of its controversial Spinal Cord Injury Techniques Training Course. The investigation comes in response to PCRM's complaints that OSU ignored federal regulations requiring government-funded research institutions using animals to "minimize pain and distress" "minimize t...Family trees of ancient bacteria reveal evolutionary moves
...ogists and geologists studying one of Earth's most controversial eras approximately 2.1 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria first arose on the Earth. This was a time when the Earth's atmosphere had an incredible, mysterious and inexplicable rise in oxygen, from extremely low levels to 10 percent of what it is ...NJIT astrophysicist who revived earthshine named fellow of American Physical Society
...am of researchers have published two important and controversial scholarly journal articles. In the May 28, 2004, issue of Science, Goode and solar physicists from NJIT and Cal Tech argued that by observing earthshine for eight years, they had witnessed first a gradual decline in the earth's reflectance, which a...Queen's discovery sheds new light on ancient temperatures
...old enough for the formation of this mineral? One controversial theory known as "The Snowball Earth" hypothesis suggests that around 700 million years ago the earth was almost totally enclosed in ice. The Queen's discovery offers alternatives to this hypothesis. Glaciers wax and wane according to how the earth's ...Stem cell therapy for ailing hearts
...asy to use, and, like adult stem cells, are not as controversial as embryonic stem cells." said coauthor Paul R. Sanberg, PhD, DSc, director of the USF Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair. The USF study does not define how the HUCB cells reduced acute heart attack damage in the rats, but the researche...Rob DeSalle and Michael Yudell to appear at the American Museum of Natural History
...ives, Dr. DeSalle and Mr. Yudell will discuss such controversial and vital topics as: Personalized Medicine Race and Genetics Genetically Modified Food Evolution and Genetics Ethical and Policy Challenges This event is open to the public. There is a $15.00 Admission ($13.50 for members, students, and ...JCI table of contents, December 1 2004
...ity and stem cell therapy in an already heated and controversial field." This study stands in contrast to others that have claimed successful differentiation of BM-SP stem cells in specific tissues. Dr. Cossu offers some reasons for the experimental discrepancies and stresses that "it would be important to repeat ...Promising results in the battle against incurable ALS muscle disease
...ing many ALS patients to choose euthanasia, a very controversial solution. However, previous genetic research by Pe...cy of ALS mice by 30%. But gene therapy is still a controversial method of treatment, whose path to the clinic can be quite long. VEGF prolongs the life of ALS ...Academy eBriefings offer comprehensive reports on more than 100 cutting-edge scientific issues
...00th eBriefing, the Academy highlights yet another controversial topic: The Ethics of Mood Enhancement. Could mood-enhancing drugs be beneficial to people who are emotionally and physically healthy? The possibility of improving the general population's mood with medication raises provocative questions that get at...'Broken' gene reveals evolution of salt retention and possible ties to hypertension
...ence to support the sodium-retention hypothesis, a controversial 30-year-old theory that the high rate of hypertension in certain ethnic groups is caused, in part, by an inherited tendency to retain salt. In the December issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, (available now on-line) the researchers sho...Diabetic damage to eyes, heart, nerves, kidneys may be explained by controversial theory
St. Louis, Oct. 28, 2004 -- A controversial theory about how diabetes causes extensive tissue damage will appear in the November issue of Diabetes. At stake in the heated debate over the theory are researchers' efforts to find new ways to reduce loss of vision, kidney failure, heart damage and...Babies born after surgery on eggs
... mitochondria to her eggs, it is likely to be less controversial than using mitochondria from other women, where children would inherit about 40 of the 25,000 human genes from the donor. In 2001, the Food and Drug Administration intervened to stop Jacques Cohen's team at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and......e or nearly mature skeletal muscle fibers. That is controversial because satellite stem cells cells that become new muscle long have been suspected of giving rise to rhabdomyosarcoma. "If we know where it starts and the cause, you might be able to prevent it, detect it early or develop new treatments based ...... ago. The study also supports the controversial view that there was a "bottleneck" or reduction in the global Homo sapiens population to only about 10,000 people about 100,000 to 50,000 years ago. Rogers and others have proposed the bottleneck may have occurred because of a mass die-off of early h...