'Realistic' skin cells grown in lab
An advanced 3D skin model developed at King's College London (KCL) may reduce the need for animal models in cosmetic testing....
Dr Lanay Griessner was a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and is now working in the biotech industry in Vienna. She originally studied Biology at Boston College, and went on to obtain a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Vienna. There, she conducted research in the fields of infection and systems biology in the Max F Perutz Laboratories, publishing several articles on the common fungal pathogen Candida albicans.
An advanced 3D skin model developed at King's College London (KCL) may reduce the need for animal models in cosmetic testing....
A technique to generate mouse embryonic stem cells could, if repeated in human cells, improve access to stem cells by using fertilised eggs that would previously have been discarded...
A potential HIV therapy where patients have their blood cells genetically modified to help them resist the virus is safe and promising as a treatment, say researchers after a small clinical trial...
Stem cells have been created from mouse blood cells using a simple and quick method described as 'remarkable' by experts...
Researchers in Denmark have found that women with asthma take longer to become pregnant compared to non-asthmatics. The results add to an emerging body of evidence showing that asthma affects fertility...
Researchers in the USA may have come up with some of the first evidence linking genes, emotion and marital satisfaction...
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