German researchers have isolated cells from adult mouse testicles that share some of the characteristics of embryonic stem (ES) cells. The team isolated stem cells that normally grow into sperm, and coaxed them into producing many different types of body cell. The researchers, based at the Georg-August-University of Gottingen, published...
Seoul National University (SNU) has announced it will dismiss the discredited South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang, for his involvement in fabricating data during his work on human embryonic stem (ES) cells. Six other professors and co-authors on two Science papers published by the group - now formally retracted - will not...
The House of Representatives in the US state of Kansas has approved a bill promoting adult and umbilical cord blood stem cell research, while voting against a bill that would have allowed scientists to create chimeras. The members of the House voted 121-4 in favour of the bill that...
The debate on cloning and stem cell research is continuing in Australia, with politicians voicing their opinions on how the law should regulate the practices following the publication of the Lockhart Report late last year. The six-member Legislative Review Committee, chaired by John Lockhart, a former Federal Court judge, looked...
Commercial genetic testing offered to women with a family history of breast cancer may provide false reassurance in some cases, a new US study shows. Researchers based at the University of Washington in Seattle studied women affected by hereditary breast cancer, who had all received negative results following BRCA1 and...
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