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Advance in Pluripotent Cell Creation

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 12:11:12 - Anuradha Menon

A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists has taken an important step toward producing induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that are...

2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Monday, October 6th, 2008 - Janice Karin
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinka Institute is awarding the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Harald zur Hausen of...

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Breast Cancer Cells Recycle to Escape Death

Sunday, October 5th, 2008 - 10:01:57 - Anuradha Menon

Many breast cancer cells facing potentially lethal antiestrogen therapy recycle to survive, researchers say. About 70 percent of breast cancer cells...

Stem Cells Created Without Viruses

Friday, September 26th, 2008 - 09:51:21 - Ehud Rattner

For the first time, biologists have reprogrammed adult mouse cells back to an embryonic state without using viruses that leave dangerous copies of...

'Buckyballs' Can Accumulate in Living Tissue

Saturday, September 20th, 2008 - 12:08:40 - Anuradha Menon

Research at Purdue University suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in...

Scientists Win Lasker for micro-RNA

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 - 09:38:01 - Iddo Genuth

Over the last half-century, geneticists have made sense out of what was once a nebulous universe of molecular matter. But there is always more than...

Nano-Sized 'Cargo Ships' to Destroy Tumors

Friday, September 12th, 2008 - 16:24:21 - Anuradha Menon

Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the...

Cryopreservation Help Women Cancer Victims

Thursday, September 11th, 2008 - 12:43:05 - Ehud Rattner

Emerging cryopreservation techniques are increasing hope of restoring fertility for women after diseases such as ovarian cancer that lead to...

Nanoscale Droplets that Fight Cancer

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 - 12:54:27 - Anuradha Menon

UCLA scientists have succeeded in making unique nanoscale droplets that are much smaller than a human cell and can potentially be used to deliver...

Laser Microscalpel to Target Cancers Individually
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 - Anni Shaer Levitt
A group from Texas University, Austin led by Adela Ben-Yakir, has recently patented a new technology that can be used to...