Stem Cell Research
Stem Cells Help Heal Broken Hearts
Submitted by Earth News on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 17:19
ShareThisValentine's Day can lead to plenty of broken hearts. But for cardiac wounds that time alone won't heal, science has made some major advances. When it comes to heart attack, for example, a big development is emerging from a tiny source. Stem cells are coming of age.
Baby Monkeys with 6 Genomes Are Scientific First
Submitted by Earth News on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 17:00
ShareThisThey look like ordinary baby rhesus macaques , but Hex, Roku and Chimero are the world's first chimeric monkeys, each with cells from the genomes of as many as six rhesus monkeys.
November 2011 Advances Section Additional Resources
Submitted by Earth News on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 09:00
ShareThisThe Advances section of Scientific American 's November issue took readers into the air with the world's highest flying geese, back in time with an unlikely ancestor, into space to rendezvous with some garbage, to the Internet for a new way of conducting clinical trials, and beyond.
You Say Embryo, I Say Parthenote
Submitted by Earth News on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 06:00
ShareThisU.S. stem cell scientists breathed a sigh of relief this July when a federal judge upheld the Obama administration’s expansion of stem cell research. He ruled that work on existing embryonic stem cell lines derived outside federally funded labs did not violate a ban on the destruction of embryos.
Mississippi to Vote on "Personhood" of Fertilized Eggs
Submitted by Earth News on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 13:20
ShareThis"When do you believe life begins?" Johnny DuPree, Democratic candidate for governor of Mississippi, asked during a public debate on October 14.
Preliminary Human Experiments to Test Safety of Nerve Cell Transplants for Spinal Cord Paralysis
Submitted by Earth News on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 10:25
ShareThisROCKVILLE, Md.--A new experiment aimed at achieving actor Christopher Reeve's dream of finding an effective treatment for spinal paralysis was announced this week at an international meeting of scientists and people with spinal cord injury sponsored by the United 2 Fight Paralysis Foundation.
10 Unsolved Mysteries in Chemistry (preview)
Submitted by Earth News on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 05:05
ShareThis 1 How Did Life Begin? The moment when the first living beings arose from inanimate matter almost four billion years ago is still shrouded in mystery. How did relatively simple molecules in the primordial broth give rise to more and more complex compounds? And how did some of those compounds begin to process energy and replicate (two of the defining characteristics of life)?
Could Stem Cells Rescue an Endangered Species?
Submitted by Earth News on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 13:10
ShareThis From Nature magazine
Endurance Exercise Has Stem Cells Make Bone over Fat
Submitted by Earth News on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 13:28
ShareThisHi. I’m running. I’m also telling some of my stem cells what to do right now. Well, I probably am, based on a new study with mice.
Studying Mental Illness in a Dish
Submitted by Earth News on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 05:00
ShareThisNo organ in the human body is as resistant to study as the brain. Whereas researchers can examine living cells from the liver, lung and heart, taking a biopsy of the brain is, for many reasons, more problematic.
