Year in Biotech: Stem cells from skin, Personal Genome, etc.

This year may be remembered as the turning point for personal genomics, when broad gene testing for individuals finally came within reach.
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Perspectives on some of Nature’s greatest hits

The journal Nature, in the act of celebrating itself, has created a web page that may be just as valuable: an archive of the journal’s most significant publications of the last century.
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World’s only ultrafast electron microscope takes 4-D movies

A unique electron microscope that can help create four-dimensional “movies” of molecules may hold the answers to research questions in a number of fields including chemistry, biology, and physics, according to an article scheduled for the Dec. 24 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS’ weekly newsmagazine.
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Poop Powered Streetlights In India

A bio-gas plant in an Indian town generates 3,000 watts of electricity a day—from human waste.
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Human egg cells can be tweaked to give rise to stem cells

And they have been carefully tissue-matched in the same way as bone marrow donations to prevent the risk of rejection if they are transplanted into people.
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Stem-cell patch may fix damaged hearts

Scientists have made two significant advances in developing a stem-cell patch to repair the damage caused to the heart after an attack.
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SKoreans clone cats that glow in the dark

South Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases, officials said Wednesday.
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More ‘functional’ DNA in genome than previously thought

Surrounding the small islands of genes within the human genome is a vast sea of mysterious DNA. While most of this non-coding DNA is junk, some of it is used to help genes turn on and off. As reported online this week in Genome Research,
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Girls Make History: Win Top Honors at a Science Contest

Girls won top honors for the first time in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology
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A Molecular Map of Aging: Why animals age so differently?

Even closely related animals can have drastically different life spans, a fact that scientists have been puzzling over for years.
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