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...science affect the millions of patients banking on the promise of stem-cell therapies? Each of the investigators stress that their results, while exciting, have not yet been tested with human cells, although those studies are already under way. But the basic principles involved in generating stem cells in mice and man are the same, and with a few modifications, the scientists hope to have similar success with human cells. "It's likely to be the case that since this discovery is based on such fundamental cell biology principles, that the overarching rules [for mouse and human cells...
Researchers from Harvard and Columbia have moved one step closer to discovering the cause of the fatal neurodegenerative Lou Gehrig’s disease through a novel use of embryonic stem cells from mice. Supporters of embryonic stem cell research have long pointed to the potential to use these cells to directly treat diseases of the nervous system. But the Harvard and Columbia teams assert that stem cells have a broader application in providing critical information for understanding many other human diseases. The researchers have harnessed stem cells from mice embryos, which can develop into any kind of tissue...
...worldwide and mosquitoes being the primary culprit, researchers at Johns Hopkins University genetically engineered insects that were resistant to the malaria parasite. But don't trade in your long-sleeved shirts yet; so far, the mosquitoes have been tested only against a version of the malaria bug that sickens mice...
...women, according to a recent study released by a Harvard Medical School (HMS) affiliate. Past research has found that diabetic women are two to five times more likely than women with normal blood sugar levels to have babies with birth defects. In the recent study, which was conducted on mice, HMS associate professor Mary R. Loeken and her colleagues at the Joslin Diabetes Center identified the expression of the glucose transporter Glut2 early in embryonic development as a factor in this disparity. However, because Glut2 is necessary for the health of both embryo and mother, Loeken said that a treatment...
...kind of courtesy that was apparently reserved for such overnight guests. A recent Washington Post exposé revealed that some wounded soldiers were placed in outpatient facilities plagued by mice, mildew and mismanagement. It's a shocking account, and not only for ordinary Americans who know Walter Reed by its spit-shine, high-tech image. An embedded TIME reporter who lost a hand in a grenade attack, I was treated at the hospital as a patient from Dec. 16, 2003, to Jan. 8, 2004. From my home in Washington, I returned regularly as an outpatient over the next 18 months...