Vitro

Functional Taste Cells Cultured In Vitro

Nancy Rawson, PhD, a cellular biologist who is the principle investigator said that the new technique of in vitro culturing of taste cells would help them to discover molecules that can enhance or block different kinds of tastes.// Researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center have succeeded in growing mature taste receptor cells outside the body. They have also been successful in ke...

Alcoholism Drug Vivitrol Approved By FDA

The federal agency announced through its web site, on 14th April, that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug Vivitrol (TM), for the treatment of alcoholism. // According to foodconsumer.org, Vivitrol was developed by Alkermes, Inc., which will be responsible for the manufacturing of the drug while Cephalon will take on the marketing and sales for the drug under an...

Scientists Create Live Birth Using Artificial Sperms Produced In Vitro

Scientists hoping to find a solution for male infertility have in an experiment for the first time ever, produced and used artificial sperms to create a living being// (mice). Professor Karim Nayernia and team, from Georg-August University, Gottingen, Germany, have created artificial sperm in a lab from the mouse embryonic stem cells. Professor Nayernia, who has now moved to the Newc...

China's Neusoft and Trivitron Plan to Set up Medical Equipments Unit

The Neusoft group, China's largest medical technology solutions provider with a turnover of $700 million, is planning a joint venture with the Chennai-based //Trivitron group to set up a medical equipment manufacturing unit, possibly in Bangalore. "The potential joint venture will earmark an initial investment of $5 million and will gradually scale it up to $25 million over a period of...

HPV Could Hamper Success Rates of In Vitro Fertilization

A new study has indicated that the Human papillomavirus (HPV) could upset promising outcomes associated with In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Human papillomavirus is// associated with the growth of warts, spread by the environment or by mere skin-to-skin contact. Researchers from New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center discovered that women who tested positive for HPV had only a 50% ch...

In Vitro Treatment Only When Both Partners Agree, Rules European Court

Can a woman fall out with her partner but still insist that he agree to let his sperm to be used in vitro so that she could become a mother// ? Natalie Evans of the UK fought long and hard, but it was her estranged partner Howard Johnston who had the last word. The final court of appeal in Europe too has ruled against her. Evans was diagnosed with ovarian can...

Questions Raised Over Safety of In-vitro Fertilization

In vitro fertilization is becoming increasingly popular.More than three million babies worldwide are conceived through Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) IVF , ovulation induction and intra-uterine induction. In Britain, ART accounts for 1.4 per cent of all births every year 10,242 in 2004 while many more women undergo treatment unsuccessfully (the success rate among wom...