What limits? There are no federal limits on embryonic stem cell research, just on additional federal funding for such research. The day before the House passed the bill, the scientific journal Nature reported that researchers at three universities had chemically manipulated skin cells to make them the equivalent of embryonic stem cells. We were informed that the president was certain to veto this bill, a bill that would relax limits on embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic stem cell...

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Recently, a trio of competing labs from Japan to Massachusetts rolled back the biological clock in mice and turned ordinary skin cells into the equivalent of embryonic stem cells. The research raised the possibility that we might eventually be able to make stem cells without destroying human embryos. But nothing has been quite as polarizing over the past six years as the controversy over embryonic stem cells. If, as this latest breakthrough suggests, researchers can reprogram ordinary body...

Increase research funding -- and free researchers. It affects 10 percent of people older than 65, and close to half the people older than 85, although younger people aren't immune. The hope is that a cure, so far elusive, will be discovered soon, but research alone won't do it. Ironically, Congress sent President Bush a bill that would free up billions in federal research dollars -- including, presumably, those earmarked for Alzheimer's research -- for embryonic stem-cell research....

Donnenberg said that the use of a patient's own bone marrow or blood-derived stem cells for bone marrow reconstitution carries some risk that these cells are contaminated with the patient's own tumor cells. Using a cell-sorting method known as flow cytometry, the researchers detected a broad spectrum of blood-forming, or hematopoietic, cells among the cultured cells at varying stages of differentiation. These data indicate that hematopoietic stem cells, or cells that give rise to them, are...

Funding biotech ventures in the country is limited to a few banks and venture companies who have had exposure to the sector. The biotech sector has witnessed a lot of activities over the last few months with many acquisitions, outsourcing deals, private equity/venture capital activity in clinical trials and contract research. There has been an escalation in interest from global firms on leveraging their India presence for research and clinical trials," he said. There is a growing number of...

Chr Hansen has teamed up with researchers from Denmark and Japan in an effort understand the genetic make-up of bacteria and see whether this knowledge can be used to improve probiotic food products. The scientists will use bioinformatics, a way of converting complex biological data such as DNA into practical knowledge using complicated mathematical models and statistics, to analyse the bacteria. All About Feed . Animal Feed News . Gene_research_to_boost_efficacy_probiotics Add to...

We volunteer our time to promote and facilitate the research, development and acceptance of biotechnology in agriculture, focusing primarily on crops. One quickly learns how much biotechnology is already used in our everyday lives, and how food and production agriculture is just a small part of the biotech industry. Michael J Fox was a keynote speaker, stressing the need for the biotechnology industry to continue to innovate and accelerate the translation of basic science into improved...

Songtao Shi, a leading researcher, discovered the untapped resources of baby tooth stem cells. The report explained that stem cells are now recognized as a kind of "repair kit" for the body, as they possess the ability to be able to turn into different types of tissue, replacing the defective, dead and worn out cells behind medical conditions like diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and a host of other illnesses. The stem cells are extracted and then frozen until they are needed to treat a...