The Human Dynasty

A case report, published in a medical journal, describes a rare side effect of human fetal stem cell therapy.

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) In the March 1 issue of G&D, Dr. Christopher Fasano (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) and colleagues lend new mechanistic insight into the effective generation of neural stem cells outside of the neurogenic niche.

Nephew of Alex Haley tracks down British ‘Roots’ through DNA testing

Stemedica Cell Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has filed with the Food and Drug Branch of the State of California's Department of Public Health for certification as a licensed manufacturer of adult stem cells for U.S.-based Phase I and Phase II Clinical Trials. (PRWeb Feb 25, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Stemedica-Adult-Stem-Cell/Manufacturing-License/prweb2184134.htm

A study of people with Williams syndrome – a condition that can cause children to be over-friendly with strangers – singles out a gene that may govern social behaviour

Positive people may owe their optimism to a gene variant that helps them dwell on the good and ignore the bad

Researchers have generated functionally mature motor neurons from induced pluripotent stem cells, which are engineered from adult somatic cells and can differentiate into most other cell types.

Researchers have discovered a gene that modifies the severity of lung disease in people with the lethal genetic condition, cystic fibrosis, pointing to possible new targets for treatment, according to a new study in Nature. This is the first published study to use a genome-wide approach to look for genes that modify cystic fibrosis lung disease severity, said researchers.

Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analysis of recently unearthed remains identify the missing members of the family of Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, murdered in 1918.

(Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center) Researchers have discovered a gene that modifies the severity of lung disease in people with the lethal genetic condition, cystic fibrosis, pointing to possible new targets for treatment, according to a new study in Nature. Posted online by the journal Feb. 25 in advance of publication, it the first published study to use a genome-wide approach to look for genes that modify cystic fibrosis lung disease severity, said researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.