The research which has been conducted on mice involves genetically modifying adult cells to make them almost as flexible as stem cells. Embryonic or stem cells are widely regarded as the body's building blocks as they are the most flexible cells in the body and have the potential to grow into any cell in the human body. Professor Wilmut says the decision to change methods was not based on ethics but because the Japanese research which uses a technique to change cells from a patient...

NEW DELHI: Anti-cancer treatments may have an opposite effect on the cancareous cells increasing the small population of cancer stem cells believed to drive the disease, according to a latest research. The stem cell markers contribute to stem cells' defining ability to renew themselves and differentiate into different cell types. The researchers selected a rare form of cancer, Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma (MCS), to study the expression of stem cell markers in metastasizing tumors and primary...

While embryonic stem cells can develop into anything, adult stem cells have already begun to move down a particular pathway and can only develop into certain types of cellsin this case, neural (brain) stem cells. The stem cells used in the research are not embryonic, meaning that they do not come from unborn fetuses. These adult stem cells create little to no controversy and, as a result, scientists have encountered little ethical protest, allowing them to focus on their study. Recent...

Wilmut told the Telegraph a rival method pioneered in Japan that uses skin cells instead of cloned embryos has better potential for making human embryonic cells. Stem cells hold the promise of treating many diseases because they can be grown into specialized tissues and possibly entire organs. Ian Wilmut, a scientist who made headlines with a cloned sheep, is abandoning human-embryo research. Cloning pioneer forgoes embryos--The Washington Times, America's Newspaper advertisement Advertise...

The scientists extracted stem cells from the cloned embryos, which they developed into heart and nerve cells. Since then there have been many advances in embryonic stem cell research. Shoukhrat Mitalipov from Oregon Health and Science University is the lead researcher: SHOUKHRAT MITALIPOV: These embryonic stem cells behave very much like their normal counterparts, they've been able to differentiate or turn into any other adult cell type if we give a right stimuli. Using a technique called...

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HONOLULU, HI (November 16, 2007) Rapid advances in biofuel research and development are being driven by concerns about the environment and the need for renewable fuels, according to top industry and government officials from China, Canada, the United States and Hawaii attending the second annual Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bionergy. HONOLULU, HI (November 16, 2007) Rapid advances in biofuel research and development are being driven by concerns about the environment...

Main Category: Biology / Biochemistry News Article Date: 19 Nov 2007 - 0:00 PST email to a friend printer friendly view / write opinions rate article newsletters Visitor Ratings: Healthcare Professional: General Public: >> rate this article MIT researchers have devised a novel way to create tiny colonies of living human liver cells that model the full-sized organ. Main Category: Biology / Biochemistry News Article Date: 19 Nov 2007 - 0:00 PST email to a friend printer friendly view / write...

Not only is this the first time such cells have been produced in any animal other than a mouse, but the method, the researchers say, should also work in humans. Brave new world of stem cells from clones. The page is still readable. Premium scotsman.com web access. GINA KOLATA RESEARCHERS have reported that they used cloning to produce monkey embryos and then extracted stem cells from the embryos. In 2004, South Korean researchers reported making stem cells. The full article contains 892...