Insects may have consciousness and could even be able to count, claim ...
Daily Mail
... fewer than a million nerve cells The models suggest that counting ability could be achieved with just a few hundred nerve cells, it is claimed. And a few thousand would be sufficient to make an animal a conscious being, rather than an a...
Solution: 'Eliminate animal farming'
Drovers
Patrick O. Brown, a Stanford University biochemist, invented the DNA microarray, a tool that measures how cells make use of their DNA; he then showed researchers how to make their own, transforming genetic research. But over the next 18 mon...
Precision Biosciences applauds European patent decision
Local Tech Wire
... developed by Precision, called Directed Nuclease Editor (DNE), enables the production of genome editing enzymes that can be customized to modify essentially any gene in plant or animal cells. “We are enormously pleased with the decision...
Bioniche Strengthens the International Patent Portfolio for its MCC ...
TradingMarkets.com
This patent's claims relate to medicament compositions of MCC or M-DNA and a chemotherapeutic agent for inhibiting the growth of animal or human cancer cells, including leukemia, lymphoma and melanoma. "The issuance of MCC patents in Japan ...
Controversial Human Cloning Company Applies Again for Embryonic Stem ...
LifeNews.com
... stock prices is announcing yet another attempt at launching a trial with patients receiving injections of embryonic stem cells. Never mind that embryonic stem cell research has yet to conquer animal testing. There, the cells face immune...
Vitrolife Receives Research Grant From VINNOVA For Development Of The ...
Medical News Today
Today's methods rely on animal substances to support the growth, differentiation and genetic stability of stem cells. However, these limit the possibilities of using stem cells within clinical therapy, as the animal derivatives increase the...
Butterfly inspired tool to probe fluids inside cells
SamayLive
... researcher has developed tiny probes that can sample fluids inside cells. At the scales at which a butterfly or moth lives, liquid is so thick that it is able to form fibres. The insects' liquid food -- drops of water, animal tears, and...
Micro-Endoscope Is Under Development
Post Chronicle
Xie says he wants to replace such cameras with scanners that reveal abnormal groups of cells or growth patterns beneath the surface ... Experiments with Xie's scanning "micro-endoscopes" on animal tissue have been promising. The pencil-size...
Reflux Esophagitis Due To Immune Reaction
Redorbit.com
... a direct result of acidic digestive juices burning the esophagus, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found in an animal study. Rather, gastroesophageal reflux spurs the esophageal cells to release chemicals called cytokines...
New study considers limits putting human genes, cells into animals
DVM 360
... or chimeric research includes animal like rhesus macaques that carry a human form of the Huntington's gene, and mice with human-like livers in which the effects of new drugs are studied. In the future, animals with human stem cells may ...
PETA members protest animal labs on campus
Utah Chronicle
If the U must do research on living cells, Hatfield said stem cells should be used in place of animal testing. “Nobody suffers in stem cell research,” she said. Allen said he watched clips from PETA’s undercover study on the local news but ...
In Search of the Geep
New York Times
The scientific term for an animal with mingled cells from two species is chimera. The first well-known geep was born in 1984 after scientists at the Institute of Animal Physiology in Cambridge, England, combined goat and sheep embryos of fo...
