FDA fast tracks ALS stem cell therapy
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded 'fast-track' status to a potential stem cell therapy for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or motor neurone disease...
Rhys Baker was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews.
by Rhys Baker
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded 'fast-track' status to a potential stem cell therapy for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or motor neurone disease...
by Rhys Baker
Human pluripotent stem cells have been 'reset' to resemble embryonic stem cells at the earliest developmental state yet achieved...
by Rhys Baker
This story about the forgotten road to the double helix argues that William Astbury deserves the same recognition as Crick and Watson. It is a very persuasive argument...
by Rhys Baker
White blood cells have been made resistant to HIV after researchers rewrote their genome to contain a gene variant linked to immunity against the virus...
by Rhys Baker
The world's first fully-functional synthetic yeast chromosome has been created in an international seven-year effort...
by Rhys Baker
A recovering teenage cancer patient is a lead author of a study into the rare form of liver cancer she contracted. The research, published in Science, identified a key mutation that may explain the uncontrolled growth of the tumour...
by Rhys Baker
This remake of sperm donation film 'Starbuck' touches (too briefly) on several heavy-hitting questions on the ethics of sperm donation...
by Rhys Baker
Genetics may have a greater impact on the differences between students' GCSE results than upbringing or teaching, according to research from King's College London...
by Rhys Baker
In just 200 pages, Professor Lewis Wolpert addresses the whole of cell biology: from the discovery of cells, through how stem cells self-replicate, to how cells may have evolved in the first place...
by Rhys Baker
In this book on the placenta, the shortest-lived human organ, we find out about the fascinating immunological paradox of pregnancy as well as the effects of maternal, paternal, and even retroviral genes in the functioning of the placenta...
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