MSU Becoming Center Of Excellence For Parkinson's Research
A team of researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Cincinnati have been awarded a $6.2 million Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson’s disease grant. The grant, from the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health, makes MSU’s College of Human Medicine a major player [...]
New Year's Ease For Pregnant Women
Pregnant women who overindulged in holiday goodies should make a New Year’s resolution to be very cautious about dieting until after the baby is born. “While it’s not a good idea to gain too much weight during pregnancy, women should not deprive themselves or their babies of nutrition by overcompensating with a weight-loss diet,” said [...]
SEBM 1st European Best Poster Prize Awarded At ISCGT Annual Conference In Cork Ireland
At this year’s Annual Meeting of the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy of Cancer (ISCGT), the best poster prize was awarded to an intriguing study in which chicken antibodies were developed for applications in the repair of tissue damage and for potential use in the therapy of cancer metastasis. The wining abstract, presented [...]
Adult Eyes Cells Can Be Transformed Into Pluripotent Stem Cells Without Introducing Foreign Genetic Material
Scientists have overcome a key barrier to the clinical use of stem cells with a technique which transforms regular body cells into artificial stem cells without the need for introducing foreign genetic materials, which could be potentially harmful. The research, published in Stem Cells, suggests that cells taken from a patient’s eye can be “reprogrammed” [...]
USAID Launches Emerging Pandemic Threats Program
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is launching an Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program that builds on the successes of the Agency’s long-standing programs in disease surveillance, training, and outbreak response, particularly those addressing avian and pandemic influenza. The focus of the EPT program is to pre-empt or combat, at their source, newly [...]
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