Cells tricked in identity switch
Pretoria News Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:27 PM PST
New York - Scientists are reporting early success at transforming one kind of specialised cell into another, a feat of biological alchemy that doctors may someday perform inside a patient's body to restore health. |
Study Shows That Blood Stem Cells Are Influenced By Their Offspring
redOrbit Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:19 PM PST
A new study by researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has shown that mature blood cells can communicate with, and influence the behaviour of, their stem cell 'parents'. The discovery of a blood cell 'feedback loop' in the body opens up new avenues of research into diseases caused by stem cell disorders, and the potential for new disease treatments. Dr Carolyn ... |
U Of I Scientists Develop Tool To Trace Metabolism Of Cancer-Fighting Tomato Compounds
redOrbit Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:16 PM PST
The University of Illinois scientists who linked eating tomatoes with a reduced risk of prostate cancer have developed a tool that will help them trace the metabolism of tomato carotenoids in the human body. And they've secured funding from the National Institutes of Health to do it. "Scientists believe that carotenoidsâ€"the pigments that give the red, yellow, and orange colors to some fruits and ... |
Romo Throws Warm Up Passes At Practice
CBS 11 Dallas - Fort Worth Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:09 PM PST
Since breaking his left collarbone, Tony Romo has done all the prescribed rehabilitation work and kept the rest of his body in shape. He goes to all meetings and watches games from the sideline. And Monday, five weeks after he was hurt, Romo was back on the Dallas Cowboys practice field throwing passes. |
WTO rejects apple appeal
Stock & Land Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:03 PM PST
GROWER body, Apple and Pear Australia Ltd (APAL) has reluctantly accepted a World Trade Organisation decision to reject Australia’s appeal against WTO’s previous ruling against the some of the tight quarantine conditions Australia had imposed on apple imports from New Zealand. |
Neighbors Say Danville Man Was Acting Strange Before Shooting
WCIA 3 Champaign-Urbana Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:47 PM PST
DANVILLE - Saturday night a Danville man died after a Vermilion County sheriff's deputy shot him after resisting arrest. Monday's autopsy report showed there were, "Two penetrating gunshot wounds," on 40-year-old Michael Brandel's body. |
Madonna Opens First 'Hard Candy Fitness' Gym in Mexico City
Spinner Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:09 PM PST
Like every successful superstar, Madonna has long diversified her portfolio, but the "Material Girl" has now ventured into the business side of fitness with a new brand of gyms called Hard Candy Fitness . The first one -- an admitted trial version -- celebrated its grand opening in Mexico City on Monday. The name, according to the Associated Press , is a mash-up of "hard body" and "eye candy ... |
International Team of American, Palestinian, Israeli, Kosovar Psychiatrists Come Together to Heal Haiti-Wide ...
wallstreet:online AG Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:55 PM PST
WASHINGTON, November 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ - Center for Mind-Body Medicine to Launch Groundbreaking Training Program In Haiti, December 6-10, 2010 On December 6th, 2010, James S. Gordon, M.D., one of world´s leaders in healing … |
Scientists trick cells
Straits Times Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:54 PM PST
NEW YORK - SCIENTISTS are reporting early success at transforming one kind of specialised cell into another, a feat of biological alchemy that doctors may someday perform inside a patient's body to restore health. So if a heart attack damages muscle tissue in the heart, for example, doctors may someday be able to get other cells in that organ to become muscle to help the heart pump. |
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