Harvard scientists in cell research advance
Scientists at Harvard University have found a way to "reprogramme' adult human cells to an embryonic state. The discovery could provide an alternative to therapeutic cloning, as a way to make embryonic stem cells that are genetically identical to the patient. The researchers fused adult skin cells with embryonic stem …
Mumbai lab trying to grow stem cells on circumcised skin
Foreign snipped and junked in the age old practice of male circumcision is now ending up in downtown Mumbai as modern science's new replacement for the mouse in stem cell research. As a nutritive base to grow stem cell lines
Singapore`s biotechnology push
Singapore has seen the future - and it is filled with innovations like urine-powered batteries, body parts produced from stem cells and contact lenses that exude drugs into your eyes. Faced with competition from China and Malaysia in shipping and electronics, the city is more than doubling the amount it …
Asia CRYO-CELL to set up stem cell therapy centre
Asia CRYO-CELL Pvt Ltd, a private cord blood bank, plans to invest over Rs 50-60 crore in a stem cell therapy centre, a public cord-blood bank and in expanding its facilities. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Mr S. Abhaya Kumar, Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Asia CRYO-CELL, said …
States play catch-up on stem cells
Three years after President Bush announced restrictions on federally funded medical research using stem cells from human embryos, a California panel will meet today to begin the process of granting $3 billion in state money to stem cell researchers. Calif. governor Arnold Schwarzenegger supported an initiative passed by voters for …
Genes and means
gene exchange between different plant species is facilitated by their parasites, according to a report authored by biologists from the us -based Indiana University of Bloomington (iub). They found that genes could move from plant parasites to plant hosts. The finding adds to a report also by the us academia
China gets its first cloned pig
China's first pig cloned from a body cell was born last week and will find use in organ transplants and scientific research, media reports said. Hailing it as a major scientific breakthrough, reports said that the piglet weighing 1.13 kg, is the first cloned pig independently developed by Chinese scientists
Guidelines for stem cell research soon
A task force created by the Department of Biotechnology has evolved draft guidelines for stem cell research in the country and is set to finalise them within six to eight weeks. Speaking to newspersons after the inauguration of the Centre for DNA Finger printing (CDFD) and Sun Microsystems Centre for …
Focus on gene chips & proteomics, says Kalam
India has the potential to tap research opportunities in proteomics and bio-chips that can help understand biological processes and treat diseases. This is possible even though the country has missed the opportunity to partner in the human genome project, according to the President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. He said the …
Fertility expert warns of stem cell bubble burst
Fertility expert Lord Winston says that the potential benefits of embryonic stem cell research have probably been oversold to the public, the BBC reported. He will warn in a speech that if science fails to deliver on some of the hype around the cells
Cloned dog raises ethical questions of its science
South Korea's Woo-Suk Hwang has reached the highest peaks of cloning and stem cell research, but critics say he has taken science onto a steep and slippery slope and raised alarming questions about interfering with life. Hwang was all smiles as he put on a lab coat and frolicked with …
After Dolly, its now Snuppy
South Korean scientists announced on Wednesday they had carried out the first successful cloning of a dog, creating a duplicate of a three year old Afgan hound by suing the same technique that gave the world
Researchers say Arctic teeming with life
Beneath its ice, the Arctic Ocean is teeming with life, says a team of international scientists that just completed a 30-day expedition to the northern ocean. In the months and years ahead, the 45 scientists from the U.S., Canada, China and Russia that took part in the Hidden Ocean expedition …
Embryonic stem-cell research back in US political crossfire
The next battle in the US political war over stem-cell research is looming, after Bill Frist, the top Republican in the Senate, detonated a political time bomb as lawmakers sloped away on vacation. Frist called for increased federal funding for research on frozen embryos left over from fertility treatments, setting …
Swiss voters OK stem cell research law
Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a law allowing stem cell research Sunday, rejecting a hard-line campaign that compared researchers to the Nazis' "angel of death," Dr. Josef Mengele. Some 66.4% of those polled
Blow to US efforts on cloning ban
In a blow to US efforts to get the United Nations ban all types of cloning of human embryos, the legal committee of the UN General Assembly has decided to shelve two opposing resolutuon and instead try to find a consensus for a non-binding political declaration on the issue..
Man didnt kill NZ birds , says new study
Humans had been wrongly accused of having exterminated moas the giant flightless birds that once grazed in New Zealand. A new study by researchers in the US and New Zealand suggests that a huge mao population existed not until but a few thousand years before the arrival of humans
CSWRI produces embryos from endangered sheep
Claiming a breakthrough in genetic engineering, scientists at the Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute (CSWRI) have produced several embryos from a single garole sheep, an endangered species of West Bengal to be used in the local Malpura-breed in Jaipur. Produced through a "multiple ovulation technique", as many as 24 …
