27 August 2002
Scientists have reported the successful application of proprietary cloning techniques to produce four calves that express
a human chromosome fragment coding for the broad range of human antibodies.
27 August 2002
Scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School have found neural crest stem cells in the gut of adult laboratory
rats.
27 August 2002
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have induced mice to produce fully functional sperm from evolutionarily distant
species.
27 August 2002
A molecular switch in mice can convert easily-fatigued ‘fast-twitch’ muscle fibres into the lean, oxygen-fueled ‘slow-twitch’
fibres.
27 August 2002
A few key changes in a single gene help explain why people can talk while mice and apes cannot.
27 August 2002
Australia's biomedical researchers rejoiced two years ago when the government announced that it would double the budget of
the National Health and Medical Research Council.
27 August 2002
In pursuit of the next big scientific challenge – the human proteome – scientists are turning to blood plasma for source of
proteins to diagnose disease.
27 August 2002
Scientists have made an important step towards developing a camera that takes atomic-scale snapshots.
27 August 2002
Handmade cloning, a new way to create genetically identical copies of animals, is not only cheaper and simpler than existing
methods, but appears to work better too.
27 August 2002
A deadly virus that wiped out half of northern Europe's seal population in 1998 has hit the UK - five seals off the coast
of Lincolnshire and East Anglia have tested positive for phocine distemper virus (PDV).
27 August 2002
US scientists are celebrating a burst of private cash and a surprise loosening of the federal regulatory hurdles for stem
cell research.
27 August 2002
A new technique for tricking cancer cells into ‘committing suicide’ and thus preventing their spread has been developed by
researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
27 August 2002
Researchers have shown that it is possible to delay the onset of a prion-based disease in mice, using a recombinant protein
to immunize them.
27 August 2002
The US government is taking action over the West Nile virus: the FDA is initiating trials of interferon in 40 patients infected
with West Nile virus.
27 August 2002
Researchers have identifyied a genetic mutation in mice that cracks the body's natural resistance to the West Nile virus.
27 August 2002
Research shows that the lethal Hong Kong influenza is invisible to our body's immune defences.
27 August 2002
The finding that tumour cells are awash with telomerase, which extends their lives, could have implications for new cancer
drugs and stem-cell therapies.
27 August 2002
Researchers have prompted mouse brains to replace nerve cells that were killed by stroke.
27 August 2002
Mitochondria may not be inherited solely through the maternal line, according to new research that promises to overturn accepted
biological wisdom.
27 August 2002
A new breed of genetically engineered pigs with organs far less likely to be rejected by people has been created in the US.
27 August 2002
Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) report a new method for detecting DNA, whichcould transform
medical diagnostics.
27 August 2002
A physical map of the genetic makeup of a mouse – the mouse genome – is 98 percent complete and is being released online by
the journal Nature.
27 August 2002
A paper published in Nature Immunology shows that TH1cells are not the cells that retain an immunologic memory of theinfection.
27 August 2002
Researchers in the recent issue of Nature reveal a new antibiotic that could foilbioterrorist's attempts to engineer antibiotic-resistant
strains.
27 August 2002
On August 19, 1994, the first message was posted to ProMED-mail. It went to 40 subscribers in 7 countries. Today's posts are
read by tens of thousands of subscribers in more than 155 countries.
8 August 2002
Developments in imaging technologies are advancing rapidly, and A TRENDS Guide to Imaging Technologies provides a carefully
selected sample of current state-of-the-art technologies.
8 August 2002
In association with the World Institute of Sciences and the French Academy of Science, BioVision 2003 will bring together
many Nobel Prize laureates
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8 August 2002
BioMed Central announces the launch of a new open-access journal set to challenge Nature, Science and Cell.
8 August 2002
Gene and molecular delivery system provides successful long-term gene therapy that halts chronic heart failure in experimental
animals.
8 August 2002
Molecular beacon, TaqMan(r) probe and primer pair design software for Windows.
8 August 2002
researchers at Eli Lilly (Indianapolis)report how they generated novel crystal forms of insulin, which can providelonger and
smoother control of blood glucose.
8 August 2002
Cesare Montecucco of the University of Padova, Italy, and colleagues have created molecules that inhibit the anthrax bacterium's
‘lethal factor’ (LF)
8 August 2002
Bone marrow stem cells may be able to treat eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and the deterioration of vision associated
with old age.
8 August 2002
Researchers in Japan have managed to produce healthy fertile offspring from in vitro matured fetal mouse oocytes.
8 August 2002
Researchers in the US have made a library of potential antibiotics using a remarkably versatile natural catalyst
8 August 2002
Topics related to food safety, e.g. bovine spongiform encephalopathy, antibiotics and hormones in animal feed, the impact
of agriculture on biodiversity, are increasingly prominent in the news.
8 August 2002
USDA officials are investigating the illegal importation of 107 tenrecs because of carrier of foreign animal diseases, such
as foot-and-mouth-disease
8 August 2002
Texas' accredited-free status for bovine tuberculosis has been downgraded because the disease was diagnosed in two herds last
year
8 August 2002
Determination of how long we live may all depend on how tough our stem cells are.
8 August 2002
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have now taken a big step toward understanding how the process of
splicing is regulated.
8 August 2002
A team of chemists at the University of Illinois has developed a way of creating artificial antibodies.
8 August 2002
Scientists have identified a key regulatory mechanism in the TGF-ß pathway.
8 August 2002
A physical map of the genetic makeup of a mouse – the mouse genome – is 98 percent complete and is being released online by
the journal Nature.
8 August 2002
To encourage computational approaches that will deepen understanding of biological processes, the National Institute of General
Medical Sciences has established Centres of Excellence in Complex Biomedical Systems Research.
8 August 2002
Xeotron Corporation has recently published a scientific paper that presents their novel method of synthesising peptide microchips.
8 August 2002
A new joint venture in South Korea called MGENBIO is the first company to successfully clone a pig for use in organ transplants
to humans.
8 August 2002
It has been established that the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed 20 million to 40 million people worldwide did not originate
from birds.
8 August 2002
Scientists in the past decade have discovered that remnants of ancient germ line infections - human endogenous retroviruses
- make up a substantial part of the human genome.
8 August 2002
Johne's disease is a little known, usually fatal infection that causes $1 billion in U.S. cattle industry losses annually.
8 August 2002
With fancy new tools and futuristic machines, molecular-imaging experts across the United States are devising methods to diagnose,
track, and trap tumours.
8 August 2002
A new Prion Research Centre opened yesterday in Jerusalem to help improve diagnostic procedures and develop therapies for
prion-caused disorders such as mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
8 August 2002
Researchers have drafted a rough map of the cattle genome, which will help researchers to enhance genetic cattle traits.
8 August 2002
Scientists in Kentucky are still lured by the Eastern Tent Caterpillar and have solid evidence to back their hunches.
8 August 2002
A new technique developed in the laboratory of Robert Singer allows for the detection of multiple transcripts simultaneously.
8 August 2002
Researchers suggest that the vertebrate-specific amino-terminal domain of the TATA-box-binding protein (TBP) regulates a placenta-specific
2-microglobulin (2m)-dependent process that is used to evade a maternal rejection response.
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