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Texas leads in nanotech armor
Betterhumans (“forward thinkers discussing, celebrating and creating the future”) reports that another Texas researcher is a leader in biotech. University of Texas’ nanotechnologist Ray Baughman has learned to spin a new yarn from carbon nanotubules. It appears that the yarn contracts when stimulated with electricity and is expected to be strong enough to serve as … Continue reading
Book Review: Michael Crichton's NEXT
“Stroke Damage May Help Smokers Kick the Habit: The insula, an area of the brain largely ignored by researchers, may hold the key to breaking harmful addictions” (Scientific American Science and Technology News, January 25, 2007) “Fresh light thrown on tragic drug trial: Animal tests may have missed danger because monkeys ‘too clean’.” (news@nature.com online, … Continue reading
The future of stem cells, Texas and politics
The Friday, January 26, 2007 Austin American Statesman editorial, “Stem cell opposition could steer research away from Texas,” flatly states that Governor Rick Perry’s $3 Billion dollar cancer research initiative won’t help at all if it doesn’t include funding for embryonic stem cell research. The Statesman editors doubt that there will be any scientists to … Continue reading
Documentation of stem cell cancer link
From Science Daily, January 22: U.S. scientists have clarified how normal stem cells become cancer stem cells, as well as how cancer stem cells can cause the formation of tumors. Dr. Xi He and associate investigator Linheng Li, both with the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, studied the intestinal system in mice in which one … Continue reading
WARF relaxes embryonic stem cell fees and rules
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation holds the patents on virtually all embryonic stem cells that have ever been produced, that ever will be produced, and of all the technological and medical results of that research. At least according to them, and at least in the United States. And they’ve been sued by other researchers because … Continue reading
Review of Umbilical Cord Pancreas Cells
I’ve read the unproofed draft (their English is much better than my Korean) of “Induction of human umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells with embryonic stem cell phenotypes into insulin producing islet-like structure” by B. Sun, et. al. (Biochem. Biophys.Res. Commun. (2007), doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.01.069) The authors do not tell us how much of the insulin-secreting cells or … Continue reading
UK survey: doctors should probably kill patients
The British Social Attitudes Survey is being reported in UK papers today as “4 out of 5” and 80% of respondents feel that a doctor should be able to kill patients requesting to be killed and who are going to die anyway. The support for killing goes down if the patient is not likely to … Continue reading
Insulin from Umbilical Cord Cells
Another lead from Wesley Smith and Matthew Epinette at Bioethics.com on a report that Korean researchers have reported in the Korean Times that they will soon publish that they have produced beta islet insulin producing cells from umbilical cord blood. The abstract of the unproofed “in press” article is free here, at the website of … Continue reading
Mothers keep on giving
Stem cells, that is. We have further proof of yet another naturally occuring adult stem cell line that contributes to treatment of diabetes in the recipient long after introduction of the cells and without immune rejection. Scientists have reported in the “Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (Free abstract) about the discovery that mother’s … Continue reading
Follow the DNA trail – "superbugs"
Google News search alerts sent me to Weazlesrevenge blog, and an article originally published in (of all places) WIRED magazine about resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii that – it turns out – moved from European hospitals back to the war zone in Iraq. Since biochemistry in college, I’ve never been able to figure out why … Continue reading
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