Labeling Food Containing GMOs: Is This a Good Idea?
Friday August 31, 2012
This fall California voters have a choice to require food manufacturers to place a conspicuous label on food that was made with genetically engineered organisms (GMOs). While there are ... Read More
How to Change the Genetic Make-up of an Organism?
Friday August 31, 2012
Most people recognize that GMO stands for genetically modified organism and that genetic modification means that a gene was changed or added in the organism. However, it still may ... Read More
Court Upholds Federally Funded Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Tuesday August 28, 2012
President Obama's 2009 Executive Order allowing the National Institutes of Health to support and fund research using human embryonic stem (hES) cells remains in effect as of last Thursday's ruling by ... Read More
Closing in on a Universal Flu Vaccine
Sunday August 26, 2012
Recently, several discoveries have moved us much closer to a universal flu vaccine. For example, one group of researchers successfully completed several years of searching to find antibodies ... Read More
Nanoparticles Minimize Brain Injury from Trauma
Friday August 24, 2012
Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have found that nanoparticles can reduce brain damage that occurs during treatment of even relatively mild trauma. Infusion of clusters ... Read More
Why All the Concern over Genetically Modified Food?
Tuesday August 21, 2012
Although genetically modified (GM) food has been on supermarket shelves for almost 15 years and consumed by hundreds of million people, there is still a lot of controversy regarding ... Read More
Blood Test for Alzheimer's May Be on the Horizon
Friday August 17, 2012
Collaborating scientists from Emory University School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Washington University have identified variations in the levels of 4 blood proteins that may enable early diagnosis of ... Read More
One Step Closer to a Universal Flu Vaccine
Wednesday August 15, 2012
Because it is so common perhaps, many people do not consider the flu serious. However, it kills about 40,000 people in the US every year. Although it is ... Read More
Human Stem Cells From Embryos Frozen for More Than 18 Years
Tuesday August 14, 2012
Researchers at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand have shown that human embryos frozen as long as 18 years are a viable source of human embryonic stem cells. In a study ... Read More
Stem Cell Researchers Assess the State of the Technology
Friday August 3, 2012
Recently, in Nature Reviews, six leading stem cell researchers assessed the current state of stem cell technology and the challenges they face in developing clinical treatments based on the technology. ... Read More