Items Tagged With genetics

Stem cells produced without destroying embryo
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-01-12 09:35:44
U.S. researchers at Advanced Cell Technology have developed a method to make embryonic stem cells that do not harm mice embryos. It is likely that the method can be applied to human embryos.
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U.S. study shows English settlers to New World brought colon cancer
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-06 09:27:03
Researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute at The University of Utah (Salt Lake City) have located two family lines in the United States—one in Utah and one in New York—that carry an increased risk of colon cancer from one common ancestor.
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U.S. advisors pit evolution against intelligent design
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-01-04 09:35:56
Scientific advisers to the U.S. government have released the third edition of the book “Science, Evolution, and Creationism,” which emphasizes the importance of teaching evolution in public schools. It adds controversy as to what should be taught as science.
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Reprogramming cells may be as effective as stem cells
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-12-26 13:55:39
U.S. researchers have found that mature but defective skin cells in mice can be reprogrammed to eliminate sickle-cell anemia. The process may in the future be used to cure diseases in humans instead of using immature stem cells.

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Tooth loss and gum disease linked to fatness
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-12-24 14:15:38
Boston researchers find that obese people have less immune cells to fight tooth loss and gum disease, which is also linked to increased incidences of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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Only a few nerve cells needed to start brain working complex tasks
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-12-22 11:55:18
New research has found that instead of thousands of brain cells working together to initiate a task by the brain, only as few as fifty cells are needed.
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Earliest tuberculosis found in 1/2MIL-year-old human fossil
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-12-08 09:48:15
An international group of scientists discovers evidence of tuberculosis (TB) in a human fossil found in Turkey that is about 500,000 years old. Scientists previously thought that TB first appeared in humans only a few thousands of years ago.
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Migraine-headache sufferers have thick brain fibers
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-12-01 10:11:21
Harvard researchers scanned the brains of migraine headache patients and volunteers without such headaches. They found that fibers in the brain, which relay pain signals, were thicker in migraine patients.
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World study: if American, ancestors walked Bering land bridge
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-11-28 11:52:29
Genetic data shows that about 12,000 years ago eastern Asian peoples walked over the Bering Strait land bridge that temporarily connected Siberia and North America.
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Is embryo controversy over? Skin cells developed to act like stem cells
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-11-21 10:12:04
Independently, University of Wisconsin researchers and Kyoto University researchers have developed a simple way to reprogram skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells, which can be used to replace the 220 different cell types in humans that have been damaged, all without destroying embryonic life.
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