Cancer Stem Cells Isolated: Could Lead To New Drugs To Stop Cancer From Returning
After years of working toward this goal, scientists at the OU Cancer Institute have found a way to isolate cancer stem cells in tumors so they can target the cells and kill them, keeping cancer from returning.
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Genetics May Help Brew a Better Beer
Learning about the genetic origins of microorganisms would typically lull most non-science types off to sleep. Some recent findings about a certain strain of yeast might just give the working man reason to stay focussed and read-on.
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Cytogenetic Technology - Genotype and Phenotype
In an editorial posted online this week by the New England Journal of Medicine, David H.
Read more...Personal, yet Complete, Genome Mapping
A spare $350,000 and an interest in the burgeoning field of personalized medicine may lead you to a company called Knome.
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Mimicking the Gecko
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley continue to edge closer to producing a synthetic adhesive that will be able to replicate the tiny hairs found on the toes of the gravity defying gecko lizard.
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JHU Researchers Receive NSF Grant to Study NanoMetals
Every day, everywhere we go, whether we know it or not, we are exposed to nanomaterials—particles with one dimension no bigger than 1/100,000th the width of a human hair.
Read more...$1 Million Awarded to Stem Cell Researchers
On Tuesday, September 9th, the 2008 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine was awarded jointly to Sir Ian Wilmut, Director of MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, UK,
Read more...The Building Blocks of Life
Jamey Marth, Ph.D., UC San Diego Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and researcher with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has come up with a unified molecular view of the cell.
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Discovery Challenges Fundamental Tenet of Cancer Biology
Yale researchers have identified an unusual molecular process in normal tissues that causes RNA molecules produced from separate genes to be clipped and stitched together.
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Scientists reveal changes to embryonic stem cells caused by Down Syndrome
Scientists investigating the mechanisms of Down Syndrome (DS) have revealed the earliest developmental changes in embryonic stem cells caused by an extra copy of human chromosome 21 – the aberrant inheritance of which results in the condition.
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