Biotechnology News

  • A Mexican farmer takes part in a protest in Mexico City in January 2009. As scientists race the clock to increase food production worldwide, new trials to plant genetically-modified maize have stoked anger in Mexico, the cradle of corn.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)
    Tests on treasured maize ignite fears in Mexico AFP - Thu Oct 29, 11:30 AM ET

    MEXICO CITY (AFP) - As scientists race the clock to increase food production worldwide, new trials to plant genetically-modified maize have stoked anger in Mexico, the cradle of corn.

  • Genes key in compulsive urge to hoard Reuters - Thu Oct 29, 10:32 AM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have a compulsive urge to collect and clutter their homes with junk can partly attribute their problem to genes, a new study confirms.

  • Vehicles drive past a carbon counting sign on the Deutsche Bank building in New York June 18, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
    Bad driver? Blame your genes Reuters - Thu Oct 29, 1:33 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - No need to curse that bad driver weaving in and out of the lane in front of you -- he cannot help it, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

  • Repairing Injured Lungs May Boost Organ Donations HealthDay - Wed Oct 28, 11:49 PM ET

    WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- A new type of gene therapy for injured lungs that were previously rejected for transplantation may increase the number of lungs available for transplant, researchers say.

  • This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows ex vino gene repair of human lungs. Call it a genetic patch job for worn lungs: Canadian researchers took donated lungs deemed too damaged to transplant and repaired them with outside-the-body gene therapy. (AP Photo/Science)
    Scientists patch damaged lungs for transplanting AP - Wed Oct 28, 7:00 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Call it a genetic patch job for worn lungs: Canadian researchers took donated lungs deemed too damaged to transplant and repaired them with outside-the-body gene therapy.

  • This undated illustration shows the DNA double helix. Culture, not just genes, can drive evolutionary outcomes, according to a study released Wednesday that compares individualist and group-oriented societies across the globe.(AFP/HO/File)
    Genes drive behaviour, but culture can select genes: study AFP - Wed Oct 28, 1:36 PM ET

    PARIS (AFP) - Culture, not just genes, can drive evolutionary outcomes, according to a study released Wednesday that compares individualist and group-oriented societies across the globe.

  • U.S. panel: More study on Human Genome anthrax drug Reuters - Tue Oct 27, 6:25 PM ET

    SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Animal data suggests a proposed Human Genome Sciences Inc drug may help people exposed to anthrax but more study is needed to show the treatment adds benefit beyond antibiotics alone, a U.S. advisory panel said on Tuesday.

  • Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging stem cell rule AP - Tue Oct 27, 5:46 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - A judge on Tuesday dismissed a Christian adoption agency's challenge to Obama administration regulations expanding stem cell research.

  • Fraud, Errors and Misconceptions in Medical Research LiveScience.com - Mon Oct 26, 5:37 PM ET

    Three years after being charged for fraud, misusing state funds and violating bioethics laws, disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk was convicted today on some but not all charges.

  • South Korean disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk, center, arrives for his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. The court prepared to deliver a verdict Monday in the trial of Hwang whose fraudulent claims of breakthroughs in stem cell research shook the international scientific community. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Disgraced cloning expert convicted in South Korea AP - Mon Oct 26, 1:31 PM ET

    SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean stem cell scientist once hailed as a hero for bringing hope to people with incurable diseases and creating the world's first cloned dog was convicted Monday on criminal charges related to faked research, but avoided jail.

  • A South Korean court has imposed a suspended prison term on disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-Suk (pictured) whose claims of stem cell breakthroughs rocked the scientific world until his research was found to be faked.(AFP/Park Ji-Hwan)
    S.Korea court convicts disgraced stem cell scientist AFP - Mon Oct 26, 7:44 AM ET

    SEOUL (AFP) - A South Korean court Monday imposed a suspended prison term on a disgraced scientist whose claims of stem-cell breakthroughs rocked the scientific world until his research was found to be faked.

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