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Cord Blood Cells Become iPSCs

SOX2, OCT4, KLF4, and MYC—the so called Yamanaka factors—that can transform somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells.  In [MORE]

Healing Diabetic Lesions

Fibrinolysis
For the 350 million diabetics who develop foot ulcers (resulting in 10-15 million amputations), news that the plasma protein [MORE]

Chimero, Roku and Hex: Monkeys from Stem Cells

Roku and Hex
Just when you thought public anxiety over recombinant DNA, cloning, and stem cell technologies might be subsiding, [MORE]

H. Pylori as an Oral Vaccine Delivery Platform

Barry Marshall
In 2005, Barry Marshall and his collaborator, J. Robin Warren, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [MORE]

E.coli Logic Gates for DNA Sequencing

E Coli
Aiming to transfer the precision of electronic computing into living systems, researchers at the University of California-San Francisco [MORE]

Silkworms Making Spider Silk

Silkworm
With its high tinsel strength and elasticity, spider silk could be a useful material in medicine-not only for sutures, [MORE]

DNA Synthesis-Benchtop Automation?

Danile Gibson
To read this interview with Daniel Gibson, a molecular biologist with the J. Craig Venter Institute (Rockville, MD and [MORE]

Living Cells with a Synthetic Genome

Culturing Cells With Genomes
Creating life in a test-tube moved a little closer to reality, if not actually arriving.  Researches [MORE]