US lifts some restrictions on embryo stem cells

When President Barack Obama eased limits on taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research, the big question became how far scientists could go. Friday, the government answered: They must use cells culled from fertility clinic embryos that otherwise would be thrown away.

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Stem cell transplants free diabetics from daily jabs

Transplants of stem cells have freed patients with type 1 diabetes of daily insulin injections, researchers have announced.

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Surprise! Adult Hearts Grow New Cells

It was long thought that the human heart, like the brain, was unable to grow new cells after birth. But today scientists announced the first evidence that new heart cells are made throughout a person’s life.

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HABITAT 2020: Future Smart ‘Living’ Architecture

One of the most effective ways to cut down the ecological footprint of buildings is to follow the lead of nature through biomimicry. Habitat 2020 is a future forward example of biomimetic architecture that fuses high-tech ideas with basic cellular functions to create ‘living’ structures that operate like natural organisms.

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Famished gene is found and could help tackle obesity

A genetic change that makes white people feel famished has been found in research that could help predict the children at risk of obesity and develop new treatments.

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Researchers Make a Giant Leap in Stem Cell Research

Now scientists with Rudolph Jaenisch’s lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have discovered a way to transform any type of tissue into a stem cell and ensure all the produced stem cells are genetically identical.

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When It Comes to Brains, Size Matters

Findings of a three-year study by researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Florida, Gainesville run counter to the popular belief that women have better language skills than men.

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How does gene therapy work?

Gene therapy is the addition of new genes to a patient’s cells to replace missing or malfunctioning genes. Researchers typically do this using a virus to carry the genetic cargo into cells, because that
’s what viruses evolved to do with their own genetic material.

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Bacteria can be turned into living computers

Bacteria have been turned into “living computers” and used to solve a mathematical problem.

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DNA Sequencing in a Snap: An innnovative approach

A novel sequencing technology being developed by a Massachusetts startup allows scientists to take photographs of the sequence of a DNA molecule.

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