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Posted in Animal Biotechnology, Stem Cells on Jan 27th, 2008
University of Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew functioning heart tissue by taking dead rat and pig hearts and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells. The research will be published [...]
Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Jan 27th, 2008
A Brazilian berry popular in health food contains antioxidants that destroyed cultured human cancer cells in a recent University of Florida study, one of the first to investigate the fruit’s purported benefits.
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Posted in Animal Biotechnology on Jan 27th, 2008
After years of detailed study and analysis, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded that meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine, and goats, and the offspring of clones from any species traditionally consumed as food, are as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals. There was insufficient information for the agency [...]
Posted in Stem Cells on Jan 27th, 2008
A Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researcher has launched the first U.S. trial in which a purified form of subjects’ own adult stem cells was transplanted into their leg muscles with severely blocked arteries to try to grow new small blood vessels and restore circulation in their legs.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2008
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2008
Yes, even serious topics like Open Access can be funny.
From Vimeo, moments from the SPARACRL forum. You will laugh, you will cry.
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Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Jan 20th, 2008
Researchers have developed a potentially powerful new tool in the fight against deficiencies in dietary vitamin A, which cause eye diseases, including blindness, in 40 million children annually, and increased health risks for about 250 million people, mostly in developing countries.
High-Vitamin Corn Could Improve Nutrition
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Posted in Plant Biotechnology on Jan 20th, 2008
A preliminary assembly and annotation of the soybean genome, Glycine max, has been made available by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), to the greater scientific community to enable bioenergy research.
Joint Genome Institute Releases Preliminary Soybean Genome Assembly | Scientific Blogging
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Posted in Stem Cells on Jan 20th, 2008
A lab at the University of Minnesota has done something cool: they’ve grown a functioning heart from stem cells. The problem with building complex organs in a lab is that their normal construction required an elaborate context in the developing embryo, something that is impossible to replicate, short of just growing the whole embryo. The [...]
Posted in Human Genome on Jan 20th, 2008
You know that organisms develop, grow, and function in part because genes code for proteins that form the building blocks of life or that function as working bioactive molecules (like enzymes). You also know that most DNA is junk, only a couple percent actually coding for anything useful. Most importantly, however, you know that everything [...]