Researchers pioneer new gene therapy technique using natural repair process
Harnessing the strength of a natural process that repairs damage to the human genome, a researcher from UT Southwestern Medical Center has helped establish a method of gene therapy that can accurately and permanently correct mutations in disease-causing genes. By artificially initiating a DNA repair process known as homologous recombinat...Diabetes researchers pioneer islet cell xenotransplantation in primate studies
A team of researchers from the University of Alberta, the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University and the Emory Transplant Center has successfully transplanted insulin-producing neonatal porcine islet cells into monkeys, a procedure the researchers say represents a promising intermediate solution to the critical supply problem in clinical islet cell transplantation. "Ou...Rice bioengineers pioneer techniques for knee repair
A breakthrough self-assembly technique for growing replacement cartilage offers the first hope of replacing the entire articular surface of knees damaged by arthritis. The technique, developed at Rice University's Musculoskeletal Bioengineering Laboratory, is described in this month's issue of the journal Tissue Engineering. "This has significant ramifications because we are now beginning...Taq DNA polymerase from BioPioneer
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Nanotechnology deals with particles one nanometer, or one-billionth of a meter, wide, where normal physical properties of matter begin to give way to quantum mechanical behavi...Stem Cell Pioneer Receives 2003 Frank Annunzio Award
MADISON, WI - James Thomson, the Wisconsin scientist who was the first to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells five years ago, has been named the recipient of the 2003 Frank Annunzio Award from the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, an independent federal government agency. Annunzio Awards are presented annually to living Americans for improving the world through ingen...Biotech Pioneer Discusses Breakthrough in Osteoporosis Treatment
Deltanoid founder and CEO Hector DeLuca has discovered and characterized a promising chemically modified Vitamin D compound, 2MD, which reverses the effects of osteoporosis. In animal studies, 2MD increases bone growth while leaving blood calcium levels unchanged even at doses 3,000 times the level of other compounds. According to DeLuca, Vitamin Ds main job is to regulate calcium level...Pioneering artificial heart patient dies
Robert Tools, the recipient of the world’s first fully self-contained artificial heart, died at a hospital in Louisville, Ken., after suffering a series of setbacks. TOOLS, 59, died of complications after severe abdominal bleeding. He began bleeding and his organs began failing later, said Drs. Laman Gray Jr. and Robert Dowling, who implanted the experimental device on July 2 at Jewish Hospital....Stem Cell Pioneer Is A Fraud, Claims Colleague
Hwang Woo-suk, the South Korean stem cell scientist who took the world by storm by claiming to have cloned a human embryo, faked his reports that were published in the journal Science, his colleague Roh Sung-il has alleged.// Roh says that the stem cell lines used in the research paper analysis were taken from his stem cell lines since the original ones cloned by Hwang were destroyed by a virus...A Visually Impaired Patient Pioneers The 'Seeing Machine'
Elizabeth Goldring, a 61-year-old woman who gradually lost her eyesight to juvenile diabetes, has managed to urge scientists and device makers to create// a "seeing machine" that will enable her and thousands like herself to see despite failing visual acuity. The idea was born when Ms Goldring was examined with a scanning laser ophthalmoscope, when she was able to read a word for the...Bernard Rimland, the Pioneer of Modern Autism Research Dies.
Bernard Rimland, the psychologist who founded the Autism Society of America, died on Tuesday.He was 78. Rimland is survived by his wife , two sons, and a daughter.// Rimland is considered the father of modern autism research as he pioneered research in autism. His wife, Gloria Rimland said the psychologist died at a care facility in El Cajon after battling with prostate c...Pioneer Heart Surgeon Faced the Scalpel at 98
U.S heart surgeon Michael DeBakey who pioneered a heart surgery years ago underwent the same procedure that he had developed.//At the ripe old age of 98 he is raring to get back to work after recuperating from the surgery that he underwent to repair a major blood vessel called aorta, in his heart ,that was torn. DeBakey became the oldest person who survived such a surgical procedure for...