Biotech

the latest update

Articles under ‘Health’ category

Create a Vagina? Ask Stem Cells

Start discussionjackstar harry on June 16th, 2007

Can you create a vagina? I can not, but doctors in Italy had created vaginas for two patients. They used stem cells from the patient’s own bodies to reconstruct a vagina.
Next Possible Backthroughs
After success in growing the vaginal tissue, Cinzia Marchese believes that creating intestinal, oral and eye tissues will become next possible breakthroughs.
Woow..! We’ll […]

Popularity: 18%

Promising, Neural Stem Cells Reduce PD Symptoms in Humans

Start discussionjackstar harry on June 13th, 2007

Yale University’s news release said that a research team from Yale, Harvard, the University of Colorado and the Burnham Institute had shown that neural stem cells reduce Parkinson’s Disease (PD) symptoms in primates. The primates with PD had better movement and appetite, and had diminished tremors after being injected wth human neural stem cells.
Professor Redmond […]

Popularity: 18%

“Minicircle” Plasmid, A Very Small Vector for Radioprotective Enzime

Start discussionjackstar harry on June 8th, 2007

Recently, researchers in University of Pittburgh and Stanford constructed very small gene therapy vector called a “minicircle” plasmid that can deliver MnSOD into mouse hematopoietic progenitor cells. The research is developed after the previous research result have shown that intravenous gene therapy delivery of the Manganese Superoxide Dismutase (MnSOD) Enzyme could protect mice from whole […]

Popularity: 15%

Enjoying a Recreational Sex with Viagra? Hmm…

Start discussionjackstar harry on June 6th, 2007

World Health Organization (WHO) said that between 50 - 80 million people in the world are infertile. Some of cases might be occur on men who usual consume Viagra for their sex activities-Ehm.. It is not WHO says However, It is a private opinion due to result of research in Queen’s University Belfast explained […]

Popularity: 14%

Breast Cancer-Causing Genes

Start discussionjackstar harry on May 31st, 2007

BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the well-known breast cancer-causing genes. However, there are breast cancer-causing genes of non-BRCA families that largely unknown.
Nowadays the researchers in the world try to discover new breast cancer-causing genes, the non-BRCA falimilies, by investigate genes which have a history of breast cancer. In University of Cambridge, for example, the researchers found […]

Popularity: 18%

Biotech is part of Asia Blogging Network