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...only a first step, but scientists may be a hair closer to a cure for baldness. Using injections of a gene--nicknamed the Sonic hedgehog--they have been able to awaken hair follicles from a resting state and force them into an active one. Alas, that's just in mice. Whether the therapy works on human pates remains to be seen. One potential problem: the Sonic hedgehog gene is linked to basal-cell carcinoma, a common, treatable skin cancer...
Several strains of one of the world?s most prolific killers may have met their match in the genes of a small, furry army. On Wednesday, researchers at New York?s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center announced that they had developed a new strain of mice, which look like your standard variety but carry an important piece of the cancer-prevention puzzle: They are genetically altered to delete the genes vital to the development of blood vessels that provide nourishment to tumors. Without the blood supply, the tumor eventually starves to death. This research comes on the heels of similar...
...genes in question were removed from the mice while they were in the embryonic stage, after in vitro fertilization. Once the mice were born, scientists injected massive amounts of malignant cells into the rodents. In each of the genetically altered mice, little or no blood flow was available to the tumor, and the tumors did not grow at their normal, aggressive rate - or they didn?t grow at all. While the technology in this study is new, the theory behind it is not. "The idea of starving tumors of their blood supply is one of the leading areas of research...
...Back in high school, you were the note-taking shit. You wrote marginalia better than Dryden or Wolfe. When you cracked Of Mice and Men, your great English teacher knew you were college material. In those days, your scribbles were pure gold and your friends cheated off your underlines...
Using transplants of stem cells located in the bone marrow of healthy mice, researchers succeeded in getting diseased mice to produce correct versions of dystrophin...