This week’s news includes the hottest experimental cancer drugs, two techniques that aim to avoid immune rejection of transplanted organs, and a long-lost tree rat that shows its face for the first time in more than 100 years.
This week’s news includes the surprising immune rejection of induced pluripotent stem cells, a WHO gathering to discuss the fate of two remaining stocks of smallpox virus, the use of AIDS drugs to prevent HIV transmission, Salmonella sweeping across US labs, the debate over why the blind have an improved sense of touch, and a…
This week’s news includes the finding that UN peacekeepers unleashed the cholera epidemic in quake-ravaged Haiti, a report that finds living close to nuclear power plants does not cause leukemia in children, a French court decision that clears scientists in a growth hormone scandal, fungus-resistant GM corn, another hit to the XMRV-chronic fatigue link, and…
This week’s news includes a federal court’s decision to continue federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, an update from the first patient of the first human embryonic stem cells trial of paralysis, ground zero reports of a tornado’s effect on the University of Alabama, a report claiming that chronic diseases have supplanted infectious diseases…
This week’s news includes news for the gray wolves of America, a controversial anti-aging pill, a stem cell suggestion for Japanese nuclear workers, bail for an imprisoned Indian doctor, and an interactive map of the brain.
This week’s news includes the spread of an antibiotic-resistant gene in microbes and international efforts to curb the rise of antibiotic resistance, the development of tiny kidneys from stem cells, the identification of the first patient in the Geron hESC trial, a 3D model of rat whiskers, and the genetic basis of caffeine fiends.
This week’s news includes an asthma drug that shows promise for Alzheimer’s, alarming diversity among breast cancers, the possibility of stem cell transplants for Japan’s nuclear plant workers, shocking estimates of bats’ economic worth, a genetic test for organ rejection, and a disputed rise in the number of wild tigers in India.
This week’s news includes a guilty plea from the murderer of a Yale graduate student, a widespread effort by pharma to help Japan, a new drug for a fatal lung disease, gene therapy hope for Parkinson’s patients, stem cell promise for enlarged hearts, and an unexpected home range for a South American wild cat.
This week’s news includes a report that two American university campuses in Tokyo remain closed today after last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, a study that suggests a role for gut bacteria in the health of starving children, two new peer-reviewed journals, a ruling from the European Court of Justice that procedures involving human embryonic…
This week’s news includes some updates from old misconduct cases, a scientist’s harrowing tale from Libya, protocells that trick viruses into their own demise, an endangered marine archive, and a new iPad app that lets researchers move molecules. Some fraud updates Immunlogist Luk van Parijs, the former Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher who was fired…
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