Updated: 2012-06-24 08:02:00
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Updated: 2012-06-24 08:01:34
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Updated: 2012-06-20 05:01:59
(Beyond Pesticides, June 20, 2012) To control a growing insect resistance problem to the widely used biological pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin, now genetically engineered into corn, two experts have concluded that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should double the so-called “refuges” of acreage planted with non-genetically engineered (GE) corn. If the resistance problem [...]
Updated: 2012-06-13 06:16:14
Too many multipotent progenitor stem cells combined with a decline in tumor suppressing myoepithelial cells likely combine to create conditions favorable for cancer to develop. Mark LaBarge, a cell and molecular biologist in Berkeley Labs Life Sciences Division, led a study in which it was determined that aging causes an increase in multipotent progenitors a type of adult stem cell believed to be at the root of many breast cancers and a decrease in the myoepithelial cells that line the breasts milk-producing luminal cells and are believed to serve as tumor suppressors. This result reminds me of Aubrey de Grey's argument that rejuvenation therapies are the best way to prevent diseases of old age. A key goal for...
Updated: 2012-06-09 02:54:25
Need brain rejuvenation? Time to take a skin cell sample and use it to make brain stem cells The brain stem cells have both research and therapeutic potential. SAN FRANCISCO, CAJune 7, 2012Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have for the first time transformed skin cellswith a single genetic factorinto cells that develop on their own into an interconnected, functional network of brain cells. The research offers new hope in the fight against many neurological conditions because scientists expect that such a transformationor reprogrammingof cells may lead to better models for testing drugs for devastating neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. These scientists see an advantage in their technique because they do not convert the skin cells all the way into...
