Payment for Stem Cell Eggs Debated
Posted in Stem Cells on Jan 25th, 2007
For stem cell research, getting human eggs is a challenge: should women be paid for them?
CBS News
Archive for January, 2007
‘Bionic’ Cat Eyes Help Humans
Posted in Bionics on Jan 25th, 2007
Scientists hope ‘bionic’ cat eyes will help fight human blindness.
CBS News
Record biotech plantings in 2006
Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Jan 18th, 2007
A biotechnology advocacy group reported Thursday that a record number of biotech crops were planted worldwide last year, but critics complained the gains were more of the same: aimed at making corn, soy and cotton crops resitant to weed killers and bugs.
MSNBC.com
Trafficking Protein Suspected in Alzheimers’s Disease
Posted in Human Genome on Jan 18th, 2007
In a Nature Genetics paper published online on 14 January, a multi-institutional team has linked a gene called SORL1, which is thought to be involved in regulating protein movements through the cell, to late-onset form of Alzheimer’s disease.
Nature Genetics
GM Technology Develops in the Developing World
Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Jan 15th, 2007
The first genetically modified crop developed entriely in Africa is gearing field trials. Its success would be a milestone.
Sciencs/AAAS
Insulin pill is ‘on the horizon’
Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Jan 15th, 2007
An insulin pill made from a chemical found in shrimp shells is being developed by Taiwanese scientists.
BBC News
US-made calf reopens clone debate
Posted in Animal Biotechnology on Jan 15th, 2007
A calf grown from an embryo taken from a cloned cow has been born on a British farm for the first time.
BBC News
Family found for gigantic flowers
Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Jan 15th, 2007
The 200-year-old mystery of where some of the world’s largest flowers sit in the botanical family tree has finally been solved by scientists.
BBC News
Scientists decode sex bug genes
Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Jan 15th, 2007
Scientists have unravelled the genetic code of an organism that causes millions of sexually transmitted infections every year.
BBC News
Anti-cancer chicken eggs produced
Posted in Animal Biotechnology, Molecular Pharming, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Jan 15th, 2007
UK scientists have developed genetically modified chickens capable of laying eggs containing proteins needed to make cancer-fighting drugs.
BBC News