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A biochemist researching cellular reprogramming topped this year’s list of highly cited researchers. [Source: http://www.biotechniques.com/] The latest issue of Science Watch highlighted the top 12 most cited researchers of 2009, according to the Thomson Reuters Web of Science database. Biochemist Rudolf Jaenisch from the Massachusetts [...]  Experiments in mice show that the brain’s ability to adapt might not disappear with age. Transplanting fetal neurons into the brains of young mice opens a new window on neural plasticity, or flexibility in the brain’s neural circuits. The research, published [...] 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said today (January 29) that they will donate $10 billion over the next 10 years to develop vaccines and deliver them to the world’s poorest countries. The donation, announced at [...] 
Heartbeats: Spontaneously beating iCell Cardiomyocyte cells. Stem cell advance will help drug development! Last month, Madison, WI-based Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) began shipping heart cells derived from a person’s own stem [...]  Advances in antiaging drugs, acoustic brain surgery, flu vaccines–and the secret to IQ. We may look back on 2009 as the year human genome sequencing finally became routine enough to generate useful medical information (“A Turning Point for Personal Genomes“). The [...] 
The novel particles could last longer in the blood. Since the 1950s, researchers have been trying to mimic the abilities of red blood cells. These flexible discs carry oxygen throughout the body, squeezing [...] 
The claims management market has seen a significant growth with an estimated fifteen hundred companies engaging in personal injury referral work. The total size of the market is approaching £300 million, which [...] 
LONDON (Reuters) – A mouse that can speak? A monkey with Down’s Syndrome? Dogs with human hands or feet? British scientists want to know if such experiments are acceptable, or if they go too far in [...] 
Think back to high school biology. Remember the long, stringy neurons that make up your nervous system? You probably learned that these cells communicate by sending a chemical message across the small gap between them, called a synapse. [...] 
LONDON (Reuters) – A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an c, scientists said on Wednesday. Researchers at the [...]
PARIS (Reuters) – AIDS researchers want to expand their study of a rare group of HIV-infected people, whose immune systems naturally and mysteriously prevent the virus thriving in their bodies, to span the globe. Studies [...] 
* Lexapro enhances effects of treadmill training * People who took Lexapro in study walked faster, better By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO, Oct 18 (Reuters) – A common antidepressant combined with an [...] 
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Shareholders approve sale of the Richmond, Virginia assets as required under the GL Biochem Asset Purchase Agreement RICHMOND, Va.–(Business Wire)–Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. (“CBI”) (NASDAQ Capital Market: CBTE) [...] 
Medical researchers in North Carolina have announced a new study to investigate the possibility of a genetic predisposition to the development of mesothelioma. The Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston Salem, NC and FirstHealth Carolinas, [...] 
Breast cancer cells are open to attack (Image: Steve Gschmeissner/SPL) THE weakness in Achilles’ heel didn’t pose much of a problem until it came into contact with Paris’s arrow – at which point it killed him. Now [...] |
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