Human Embryos No Longer Needed for Stem Cells

Human Embryos No Longer Needed for Stem Cells

Researchers can get them from skin cells

Why We Grow Our Teeth in Single Rows

Why We Grow Our Teeth in Single Rows

Genetics plays the most important part

Scientists Find Genetic Cause of Synaesthesia

Scientists Find Genetic Cause of Synaesthesia

The condition is regularly associated with autism

  • Health
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 22nd, 2009
Japan to Create Nicotine-Free Tobacco

Japan to Create Nicotine-Free Tobacco

Scientists will genetically-manipulate the plants

First Genetically-Screened Baby Born in the UK

First Genetically-Screened Baby Born in the UK

The infant doesn't have the faulty cancer-triggering gene

  • History
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 20th, 2008
Researchers Sequence Woolly Mammoth DNA

Researchers Sequence Woolly Mammoth DNA

The animal's DNA had some 4 billion bases

Protein Chains Can Regulate Themselves

Protein Chains Can Regulate Themselves

This sheds new light on the course of evolution

Infant Heart Valves Created from Umbilical Cord Stem Cells

Infant Heart Valves Created from Umbilical Cord Stem Cells

Blood from the umbilical cord contains the appropriate type of stem cells

DNA Used Viruses to Switch Species

DNA Used Viruses to Switch Species

Horizontal DNA transfer seems to have occurred in animals also

 
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