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Public lecture: Can Science Replace God? Genetic Engineering and …UQ News, Australia - 21 hours agoScience continues to make great advances in genetic engineering, in-vitro fertilization, stem cells, sheep cloning, and genetically modified foods are all …

Stem cell progress more likely under Labor: expertThe Age, Australia - 21 hours agoA renowned expatriate Australian scientist hopes the new federal Labor government will lend more support for stem cell research. But Professor Alan Trounson …

Scientists reprogram mature B cells to embryonic-stem-cell-like …Thaindian.com, Thailand - Apr 20, 2008Published in the journal Cell, the study saw scientists reprogramming fully differentiated mouse cells to embryonic-stem-cell-like induced pluripotent stem …

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Stem cell research, nanotech key to India's future: KalamEconomic Times, India - Apr 19, 200819 Apr, 2008, 2118 hrs IST, PTI TORONTO: India is looking forward to stem cell and nanotechnology research to set up a Global Knowledge Bank among other …Stem cells, nanotech key to India's future, former president says CBC.caall 7 news articles

With almost no debate, the Louisiana House overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to forbid the spending of state or federal government money on what is often called “therapeutic cloning” — the creation of human … via WWL-TV New Orleans

“In principle, this will allow you to transfer a complex genetic human disease into a Petri dish, and study it. That could be the first step to analyze the disease and to define a therapy”
Without using an egg, researchers have been able to reprogram certain mature cells back to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, a new [...]

“We have identified a cell which, when grown in the lab, can produce enough of a person’s own cartilage that it could be effectively transplanted”
A partially derived stem cell that can be produced in large enough numbers to be a realistic treatment for osteoarthritis has been discovered in adult cartilage by scientists at Cardiff [...]

Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: Multiple Sclerosis Article Date: 17 Apr 2008 - 6:00 PDT Opexa Therapeutics, Inc. via Medical News Today

Chronic inflammation triggers bone marrow-derived blood cells to travel to the brain and fuse with a certain type of neuron up to 100 times more frequently than previously believed, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
After the fusion, the blood-cell nuclei begin to express previously silent, neuron-specific genes. The [...]

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Inside: Tons of illustrations used without permission, and texts ripped straight from the Little Chimp Society site.
The offenders are listed as being from Hong Kong (see here for full details), but when the offended parties tried to contact them, they found out that the phone number was for an [...]