16th of May 2013 05:49 GMT
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 turn into any...
9th of April 2013 02:34 GMT
Following their carrying out several experiments on rats, a team of researchers working with the University of Missouri has concluded that some people become couch potatoes not because of the external influences they receive, but because of inherited genetic traits. Not to beat about the bush, what these scientists...
27th of March 2013 04:16 GMT
A team of researchers writing in the journal Science Translational Medicine maintain that a novel form of gene therapy has succeeded in curing a patient's allegedly incurable acute lymphoblastic leukemia in a matter of days. More precisely, they claim that this 58-year-old individual's body became complet...
7th of March 2013 11:23 GMT
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 types that hav...
6th of February 2013 15:11 GMT
A team of scientists working with the University of Edinburgh now claim that they have succeeded in piecing together a 3D printer which might one day allow them to manufacture living tissues. Later on, these 3D-printed human tissues could be used to either test various drug, or grow organs needed for transplant sur...