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Drinking milk cuts diabetes risk
14.7.2007 | Press monitoring
Drinking a pint of milk a day may protect men against diabetes and heart disease, say UK researchers.
New Way To Target And Kill Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria Found
13.7.2007 | Press monitoring
Putting bacteria on birth control could stop the spread of drug-resistant microbes, and researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found a way to do just that.Putting bacteria on birth control could stop the spread of drug-resistant microbes, and researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found a...
Analysis: Stem cells create blood vessels
12.7.2007 | Press monitoring
Doctors have succeeded in growing new blood vessels from a person's own bone marrow cells, but researchers said Friday they are still some years away from being able to use these test-tube grown vessels to replace diseased arteries.
Antibiotic resistance countered
11.7.2007 | Press monitoring
US scientists believe they may have found a way to stop the growing problem of bacteria becoming resistant to current drug treatments.
Discovery of gene mutation could be cancer breakthrough
10.7.2007 | Press monitoring
Researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute and Eli Lilly & Co. have discovered what bioscience experts say may be a major breakthrough in cancer treatment. Their findings are being published this week in the online version of the prestigious journal Nature. Working together, the scientists discovered a recurring mutation of the...
Doubt cast on fertility technique
9.7.2007 | Press monitoring
Dutch researchers have questioned the effectiveness of a technique that many fertility specialists believe improves the chances of pregnancy. Preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) harms the chances of motherhood for women older than 35, they claim.
Organic food 'better' for heart
7.7.2007 | Press monitoring
Organic fruit and vegetables may be better for you than conventionally grown crops, US research suggests.
Mice born from cloned sperm: Technique raises hopes for infertile men.
6.7.2007 | Press monitoring
Cloning might one day restore the fertility of men with severely low sperm counts, say researchers in the United States who have cloned mouse sperm and used it to create apparently healthy adult mice.
Cloning The Male Genome May Help Infertile Men
5.7.2007 | Press monitoring
Artificially replicating the male genome could help men with very low sperm counts become fathers, a scientist told the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (Tuesday 3 July). Professor Takumi Takeuchi, of Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, USA, said that mouse experiments by his...
Scientists identify SARS virus antibodies
4.7.2007 | Press monitoring
Scientists have used a mouse model and in vitro assays to identify the first human antibodies that can neutralize various SARS virus strains.
