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...paper Qiao "Joe" Zhou, a post-doctoral fellow working in Melton's laboratory, said that finding the correct combination of the three transcription factors to reprogram the cell that makes gut enzymes in mice into a more useful pancreatic cell was the result of three years of repetitive lab work...
That's not to say that lab breakthroughs won't bring all kinds of new health benefits in the decades to come. "But we don't need to wait for those new breakthroughs to make enormous differences," Marmot says...
...That's because the feat was performed in living mice rather than a lab dish, the process was efficient and it was achieved directly without going through a middleman like embryonic stem cells, he said...
...study we were looking for antibodies to the 1918 flu. This flu virus was reconstructed a number of years ago in the lab, so we were able to test to see if 90 years later we could still find antibodies. I recruited survivors, people who were born in 1915 or earlier and thus presumably survived the 1918 flu. We found that virtually all the people born in 1915 or earlier - about 90% of them - had good "titers" to the 1918 flu, which means they still had reasonably high concentrations of the antibodies in their blood, whereas among controls, people...
...Kathryn Galbraith, 24, created a Doggyspace profile to get the word out about her pit bull-lab mix, Joe. "Writing from his perspective lets other people know how great of a dog he is," says the marketing project manager in Frederick, Md. Galbraith notes that it took her four years to make 158 friends on MySpace, while Joe has racked up 85 friends in just one month on Doggyspace. "My dog is more popular than I am," she says...