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Gene therapy shows promise for Parkinson's
23.6.2007 | Press monitoring
A new gene therapy technique tested on a dozen patients in the United States may keep symptoms of Parkinson's disease from getting worse.
Scientists find new stemcell source
22.6.2007 | Press monitoring
Scientists in Scotland say they've discovered a way to harvest stem cells from non-viable embryos.
Gene cancer tests 'need review'
21.6.2007 | Press monitoring
Decisions over who to test for a high-risk breast cancer gene should not be made solely on the basis of family history, US research suggests.
Coffee 'could prevent eye tremor'
20.6.2007 | Press monitoring
Drinking coffee protects against an eyelid spasm that can lead to blindness, a study suggests.
Plastic that grows on trees
19.6.2007 | Press monitoring
Scientists took a giant step closer to the biorefinery this week, reporting in the June 15 issue of the journal Science that they have directly converted sugars ubiquitous in nature to an alternative source for those products that make oil so valuable, with very little of the residual impurities that have made the quest so daunti...
Microbes at work cleaning up the environment
18.6.2007 | Press monitoring
It may sound counterintuitive to use a microbial protein to improve water quality.
Nano technique allows precise injection of living cells
18.6.2007 | Press monitoring
Specialized pulsed lasers have been used to inject individual cells with a variety of materials, but little is known about how this type of injection might affect living cells. For the first time, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have analyzed this nanoscale injection process on living cells and discovered that minor changes in the...
Scientists embed a vaccine in a genetically-modified food
17.6.2007 | Press monitoring
Japanese researchers say they have used a staple of their nation's diet--rice--to develop what could become an effective, safe, and inexpensive vaccine against cholera.
Designer drugs probe
16.6.2007 | Press monitoring
A simple method for measuring drug concentrations in vivo could be used in medical and drug tests, claim Canadian chemists.
Simple switch turns cells embryonic
15.6.2007 | Press monitoring
Research reported this week by three different groups shows that normal skin cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic state in mice1, 2, 3. The race is now on to apply the surprisingly straightforward procedure to human cells. If researchers succeed, it will make it relatively easy to produce cells that seem indistinguishable from embryonic...
