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• Researchers find easier way to make stem cells
And last week, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan, who discovered iPS cells in mice, used a loop of genetic material called a plasmid to reformat the cells. Huangfu tried treating the cells first with valproic acid. After she did this, it ...
• Mysterious DNA survives eons of evolution
Yet mice in the lab bred to lack four of these DNA strands appear healthy and don't seem to be missing any vital genes. Wondering if the odd results were simply some fault of the lab experiment, and perhaps the mice really weren't as well off as they ...
• Microscope shows how embryos grow
... now at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. “It’s like a huge puzzle and we can see the individual pieces. We see everything.” Zebrafish, also known as zebra danio, are popular research subjects because they are cheaper to breed than mice ...
• Research into HIV, cancer garners Nobel Prize
Last year's medicine award went to U.S. researchers Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Briton Martin Evans for work that led to a powerful and widely used technique to manipulate genes in mice, which has helped scientists study heart disease ...
• Promising stem cell method avoids embryos
Earlier studies showed promise using so-called spermatogonial cells from the testes of mice. The new German study used cells from 22 different men — ranging in age from 17 to 81 — and found that after a few weeks of growth, they could ...