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New Scientist |
Synthetic biology’s ties to our humanity let it elude definition
New Scientist In one chapter, she draws on queer kinship theory to analyse how synthetic biology is redrawing the tree of life; in another, she offers a Marxist explanation for how automation is accelerating and deskilling biotechnology work at companies like Amyris … |
The San Diego Union-Tribune |
Gene therapy completely heals severe bone fractures, in animal study
The San Diego Union-Tribune Instead of delivering therapeutic genes through a virus, as is commonly done, the team used ultrasound to open tiny pores in bone cells, allowing entrance of growth-promoting genes. This application of ultrasound is called sonoporation. If the work can … Gene Therapy Might Someday Mend Badly Broken BonesU.S. News & World Report Injured bones reconstructed by gene and stem cell therapiesMedical Xpress |
Medical Xpress |
Injured bones reconstructed by gene and stem cell therapies
Medical Xpress This illustration shows the bone-tissue engineering technique developed by Cedars-Sinai investigators. ‘Endogenous MSCs’ refers to stem cells from a patient’s bone. The ‘BMP gene’ is a gene that promotes bone repair. Credit: Gazit Group/Cedars-Sinai. |
New Scientist |
Blood Stem Cells Grown in the Lab
The Scientist Researchers have generated blood stem cells and also blood progenitor cells (shown) from human pluripotent stem cells.RIO SUGIMURATwo teams of scientists have generated blood stem cells by reprogramming either human or mouse cells. In both cases … Lab-grown blood stem cells produced at lastNature.com Human blood stem cells grown in the lab for the first timeNew Scientist Approaching a decades-old goal: Making blood stem cells from patients’ own cellsScience Daily The Australian –Telegraph.co.uk –The Independent all 9 news articles » |
Daily Mail |
Lab-grown blood stem cells produced at last
Nature.com One team, led by stem–cell biologist George Daley of Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts, created human cells that act like blood stem cells, although they are not identical to those found in nature. A second team, led by stem–cell biologist … Stem cell breakthroughs clear way for blood on tapThe Australian Is this the end of blood donation?Scientists close to unlimited supply from stem cellsTelegraph.co.uk Scientists close to creating blood cells patient’s skinDaily Mail |