Biotech

Do you notice what’s in the pic above? Yes, they are tomatoes. We usually see tomatoes with a red colour on their skins. But nowadays, an European group of researchers have successfully expressed genes from the Snapdragon flower in tomatoes, resulting to deep-purple colored tomatoes. Yes, that’s why i titled this post with Perfect Purple. [...]

Research on human embryonic stem cells involves ethical issues since it will harming the embryos. The embryonic stem cells become important due to its potential result in treatment diseases such as Parkinson. Skin Cells into Embryonic Stem Cells Recently, scientiests in the US and Japan could change mouse skin cells into what appear to be embryonic [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]