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May 23, 2004

Breakthrough: The Blue Rose

Telegraph (UK): It is the "Holy Grail" of horticulture and soon it could make the perfect present for Mother's Day: scientists have found a way to produce a blue rose. A chance discovery in a laboratory means that they will...

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April 21, 2004

Mice Created With 2 Genetic Moms, No Dad

Yahoo! News: Just ahead of Mother's Day, scientists have found a way to cut dads out of the picture, at least among rodents: They have produced mice with two genetic moms -- and no father. It is the first time...

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April 15, 2004

Genetic Breakthrough in Leukemia Treatment

Mercury News: Looking deep inside the genes of malignant cells, two teams of leukemia researchers have uncovered new ways to help identify the severity of a patient's cancer, the best treatments and how long a patient might live. While this...

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April 14, 2004

Genetic Link Between Cancer Cells and Stem Cells

Medical News Today: Researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam have discovered a common link between cancer cells and stem cells. Together with colleagues from the University of Zurich, Merel Lingbeek and NWO pioneer Prof. Maarten van Lohuizen published...

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March 30, 2004

Stem Cells Attack Cancer in Mice

Yahoo! News: Stem cells, immature cells already showing promise as tools to regenerate and replace damaged tissue, may also help target and destroy cancer, U.S. scientists said on Monday. Tests in mice showed [stem] cells could deliver powerful cancer-killing...

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March 1, 2004

Greek Scientists Weaken Cancer Cells

Yahoo! News: Greek scientists said they have found a way to lower cancer cell resistance to medical treatment in what could be a major step in treating a disease that kills more than six million people every year. The procedure,...

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February 24, 2004

Genetic Map Of Bird Flu Complete

China Daily: Chinese experts have completed the genetic map of the killer H5N1 bird flu virus and their next step will be looking at how the virus mutates. The mapping result was achieved by an avian disease research lab at...

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February 21, 2004

Exploring The Border Between Natural & Artificial Life

Mercury News: If it's not alive, but not dead, what is it? That's the riddle posed by the new field of "partial life'' technologies, to be explored today in a symposium sponsored by San Francisco's Exploratorium. An international panel of...

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February 12, 2004

Korean Researchers Make Therapeutic Cloning Breakthrough

Yahoo! News: Researchers in South Korea have become the first to successfully clone a human embryo, and then cull from it master stem cells that many doctors consider key to one day creating customized cures for diabetes, Parkinson's and other...

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Cloning Creates Human Embryos

New York Times: Scientists in South Korea report that they have created human embryos through cloning and extracted embryonic stem cells, the universal cells that hold great promise for medical research. Their goal, the scientists say, is not to clone...

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February 9, 2004

Genetics: Does Race Exist?

Mercury News: In the stratified world of high school, where cliques often form along racial lines, Carolyn Abbott's biotechnology students recently made a startling discovery: More than half of the class at San Jose's Piedmont Hills High School, students from...

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Gene Tied to Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke

New York Times: Decode Genetics, the Icelandic company that discovered genes for schizophrenia and osteoporosis, has found a variant gene that doubles the risk of heart attack and stroke among Icelanders who carry it, the company's researchers are reporting today....

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January 30, 2004

Synchrotron Machines Illuminate Small World

Mercury News: Then they realized the light could be put to good use. Now dozens of synchrotron machines have been built around the world for the sole purpose of generating light, including X-rays 10 billion times brighter than those from...

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January 19, 2004

Personalized Medicine On The Horizon

Mercury News: [John] Doerr, [Silicon Valley's] best-known VC, scored the first solid green by predicting 2004 will mark the arrival of "personalized medicine'' -- genetic testing to show whether a specific drug will or won't benefit an individual patient. Genomic...

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December 24, 2003

S.F. Cops Match DNA with that of Predator in Prison

San Francisco Chronicle: It was a speck of evidence, barely detectable to the human eye, but carefully preserved for 35 years. That stroke of foresight was enough to help San Francisco police solve a horrible crime in which a 14-year-old...

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December 13, 2003

New antibody delivers a double blow

New Scientist: A two-pronged assault on diseases such as cancer and arthritis could soon be delivered by a single drug, thanks to a breakthrough in antibody engineering. Antibodies are proteins that bind to specific targets, such as a virus. Their...

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November 24, 2003

Glowing Fish To Be First Genetically Changed Pet

New Scientist: A tropical fish that fluoresces bright red is set to become the first genetically modified pet to go on sale in the US. Alan Blake and colleagues at Yorktown Technologies LP say the GloFish will be available from...

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November 23, 2003

Animals Cloned for Food No Longer Draw Collective Yawn

New York Times: ... But cloning is back. And this time, the F.D.A. and consumer groups are involved, asking, Is it safe to eat a clone? Can you safely drink a clone's milk? If you breed a clone, can you...

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October 12, 2003

Mice Allow Study Of Genetic Disorders

The West Australian Genetically modified mice and rats, used in medical research, are flown from Perth to many destinations all over the world by Ozgene. The company, founded in 1999 and based in Technology Park in Bentley, performs DNA manipulation...

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October 2, 2003

Human Genome on Chip Offered by Rivals

New York Times: The genome on a chip has arrived. Melding high technology with biology, several companies are rushing to sell slivers of glass or nylon, some as small as postage stamps, packed with pieces of all 30,000 or so...

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September 27, 2003

Rats Latest Addition To Cloned List

Discovery Channel: French researchers have cloned rats, a first for the species which is important in research on human diseases including diabetes and hypertension, Thursday's issue of the review Science said. The rat had not been cloned earlier due to...

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September 26, 2003

Rat Cloned

Sky News (UK): Rats have been cloned for the first time in what scientists say is a breakthrough for treatment of human ailments. The development is expected to provide an important model for researching human disorders, from blood pressure to...

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August 19, 2003

DNA May Help ID Great White Sharks

The Ledger (Florida): Scientists are developing DNA technology to distinguish great white sharks from other sharks, working to save one of the ocean's top predators. The research is being conducted by scientists from Nova Southeastern University's Guy Harvey Research Institute...

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