Friday, September 16th, 2011
Investigators have developed an important mouse genetic blueprint that will speed up future research and understanding of human genetics. In two articles published in Nature on 14 September, the international team, led by investigators at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Oxford, explain how they cracked and ...
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Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Researchers have developed a valuable mouse genetic blueprint that will accelerate future research and understanding of human genetics. The international team, led by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Oxford, explains in two papers published in Nature how they decoded and compared the genome sequence ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
A team of American and Chinese scientists studying the role of stem cells in repairing damaged retina tissue have found that pigs represent an effective proxy species to research treatments for humans. The study, published in Stem Cells, demonstrates how cells can be isolated and transplanted between pigs, overcoming a ...
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Researchers have made a major breakthrough in finding out how aggressive cancers originate, raising hope of novel targeted therapies for future breast cancer patients, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Stem Cell. The scientists say this is the first study to show that the most aggressive ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Experts from Johns Hopkins Medicine hosted a press conference following a continuing medical education program on the epidemiology of head injury in professional football. The program was an evidence-based review of traumatic brain injury in the sport. The objectives of the conference on Traumatic Brain Injury in Professional Football: ...
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