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Nanotechnology Researchers at MIT have been designing new nanoparticles that can be used to transport therapeutics through the cell membrane barrier. Read more...

Stem Cell Research Maryland has handed out $23 million for stem cell research, with the lion's share of the funds going to Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland. Read more...

Scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City have identified the molecular process by which breast cancer cells spread to other tissue during metastasis. A signaling Read more...

Stem Cell Research Medistem Laboratories says they've found a new adult stem cell in menstrual blood that may prove an effective replacement for human embryonic stem cells. Read more...

Researchers have revealed that the heart is much more than a blood pump. The organ produces hormones that the body requires to lower blood pressure and flush water and salt out of the body. And now Read more...

Spotlight The Gates Foundation has put up $19 million to fund a hunt for a new drug to treat sleeping sickness, a malady that affects huge numbers of the world's poorest people but rarely attracts Read more...

Stem Cell Research Hwang Woo-suk, the disgraced South Korean scientist, wants to get back into stem cell research. He's a member of a research team that has applied for government funds to back new Read more...

A synthetic compound developed in the lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center mimics the cellular protein Smac, broadcasting a message to cancer cells that triggers their destruction. In a study Read more...

Stem Cell Research

Using stem cells extracted from umbilical cords, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch teamed with scientists in the UK were able to coax them to produce insulin, offering an approach to curing diabetes. Dr. Randall Urban, who led the study, said that they were on the first rung of the ladder. The news follows a report from last week that Geron had used embryonic stem cells to create new …

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A research team at UC Davis has used hot nanoprobes to slow the development of aggressive breast cancer in mice and now plans to begin human studies of the new approach. Working with Triton BioSystems, the researchers combined magnetized iron-oxide nanospheres with radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies and then hid them inside polymers and sugars to protect them from the animals' immune system. Injected into the bloodstream, these microscopic nanoprobes attached to receptors on the surface …

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