Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Breakthrough stem cell study has been retracted due to critical errors

Breakthrough stem cell study has been retracted due to critical errors

According to CNN, in the study the scientists had taken a skin cell and coaxed it into acting like an embryo, producing embryonic-like stem cells that could theoretically be turned into any cell in the body. What was described as a 'breakthrough' is …
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Shredding the X chromosome: Wiping out female malaria-bearing mosquitos

In a study released June 10 in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from Imperial College London and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center demonstrated a technique that could wipe out that disease-carrying bug by engineering male mosquitos …
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Africa's poison 'apple' provides common ground for saving elephants, raising

A 2011 study on sheep published in the journal Kenya Veterinarian showed that the plant caused emphysema, pneumonia, bleeding ulcers, brain swelling and death, among other effects. As more African savanna is … Ricardo Holdo, a savanna ecologist and …
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Breakthrough stem cell study has been retracted due to critical errors

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