This week's issue of the scientific journal Cell witnessed the publication of a new study detailing how a team of researchers have succeeded in cloning human embryos and using them to harvest patient-specific stem cells.
As these specialists explain, human embryonic stem cells have the ability to tur... [read more >>] It seems that the years of effort are paying off, Russian scientists now claim that they have discovered a type of bacteria unlike any seen before, in the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica.
DNA analysis indicates that this bacteria is not only new, it's not even related to any of the bacteria type... [read more >>] Leading geneticist George Church has recently admitted that, soon enough, he might be able to formally introduce people worldwide to their closest relative, the Neanderthal man. Furthermore, it seems that the only reason for which we have not yet become acquainted with one such Neanderthal man is that Pro... [read more >>] Only recently, San Diego has witnessed the latest meeting for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
During this meeting, researchers working with the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Oregon Health & Science University made it public news that they succeeded in combining genes coming ... [read more >>] If you think the kind of life we find in deep oceans, unexplored caves or boiling hot, acid rich environments is weird, you can look much closer to find even weirder home. In fact, the weirdest stuff happens so close, you can't even "look" properly at it, on your eyes. Researchers at the Centre Nation... [read more >>] Stem cells have been one of the most promising branches of bioengineering ever since the first ones were harvested, and now we have a strong piece of proof that the funds funneled into their research were well spent.
To get right to the point, a group of Japanese researchers from Kyoto University have suc... [read more >>] A group of researchers in the United States have recently taken an important step forward in figuring out how the vertebrate brain is wired. They are currently compiling a map of how neurons in the brains of mice interact. This is critical step before moving on to the human brain. Thus far, neuroscientists ... [read more >>] After a scientific investigation that lasted more than a decade, researchers finally announce the development of a vaccine against hepatitis C. Until now, all other attempts at creating a working vaccine have failed, so the disease was classified as incurable. In an announcement made yesterday, February 2... [read more >>] A group of experts at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were recently able to produce the first 3D image of an individual protein ever obtained.
This was made possible when scientists at the lab's Molecular Foundry pushed their Zeiss Libra ... [read more >>] University of California in San Diego (UCSD) investigators announce the creation of a living neon sign that is powered up by millions of bacterial cells. Fluorescent proteins attached to the cells' biological clocks allow them to blink in unison, just like LED or light bulbs would in a street ad billbo... [read more >>] |
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