Hopes for Alzheimer’s treatment
Posted in Human Genome on Dec 27th, 2006
Scientists at Cardiff University have developed a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
BBC News
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Scientists hail ‘vCJD technique’
Posted in Animal Biotechnology on Dec 27th, 2006
Scientists have found a way to remove disease-causing proteins from infected animal blood, which they hope may fight the human form of mad cow disease.
BBC News
Gene That Governs Pain Perception Is Found
Posted in Human Genome on Dec 27th, 2006
Geneticists following up the case of a 10-year-old Pakistani boy who could walk on coals without discomfort have discovered a gene that is central to the perception of pain.
New York Times
New Wheat is Totally Sweet
Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Dec 21st, 2006
Sweet wheat is a hybridzed variety of wheat with twice the sugar of its ancestor. It’s expected to hit stores two to three years.
LiveScience.com
Transgenic barley for better beer making
Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Dec 19th, 2006
Undergoing field tests: Transgenic barley designed to improve beer brewing.
GMO compass
Scientist develop edible GM cotton
Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Dec 16th, 2006
Researchers succeeded in removing a protein from cotton which made the plant inedible for humans. Seeds of the new GM cotton may now provide a new food source in many poor countries.
GMO compass
Original article (PNAS)
Bringing Industrial Crops to the Future
Posted in Events on Dec 14th, 2006
The 2007 AAIC annual meeting will be held in Portland, Maine, October 7-10, 2007. Topics inlcude: The Role of Industrial Crops in Today’s Economy; Oilseeds, rubber, energy, other industrial crops, [...]
Microbots Designed to Swim like Bacteria
Posted in Nanotechnology on Dec 12th, 2006
A remarkable micromotor will allow tiny robots to swin like an E. coli bacterium, which uses its flagella to move around.
LiveScience
Muscle and Bone Printed With Bio-Ink
Posted in Stem Cells on Dec 12th, 2006
A unique ink-jet printing sytem using bio-ink that can lay down a pattern of cells that will differentiate into a designed pattern of both bone and muscle cells has been created by a team of scientists from two universities.
LiveScience
Plant Self-Defense
Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Dec 12th, 2006
Plant Self-Defense on this Moment of Science
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