Vaccine for Arthritis coming soon
There is a chance that within a few years there could be an injection available for arthritis sufferers which is said to work like a vaccine.
It works by taking cells from the patient; these are then altered and simply injected into the affected joint or joints.
With over 350,000 people in the UK suffering from the [...]
Cure for skin cancer found
For the very first time scientists are able to say that they have been able to cure cancer, this remarkable claim comes as a patients own cells have been used to create cloned cells outside the body and then reintroduced.
The patient was a 52 year old male from the US, and scientists from the Fred [...]
The Majority of DNA is junk
The great thing about the human genome project is that the researchers have been able to unravel some of the secrets behind DNA.
One of these findings is that they believe that the majority of the 3.2 billion pairs of base pairs are actually junk, which serves no purpose to help improve the human race.
In [...]
Will stem cells ever be stored?
This may be a bit sci fi at the moment but eventually it is believed that the work into stem cells will have advanced so far along that medical staff will able to order genes from a bio bank.
What this could mean is that people would be able to bank their own cells for future [...]
Hybrid embryos get the go ahead
Scientists in the UK will now be able to carry out research into such debilitating illnesses as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s by using embryos which are hybrids between human and animal.
This has been a controversial subject which has provoked many arguments coming from many different sources; however the bill allowing this to happen has now [...]
Magic powder helps finger grow
When Lee Spievak placed his finger into the spinning propeller of a model aircraft, nobody could have been surprised to hear that it cut the end of his finger off. But what would surprise many people is that he still has five fingers on each hand.
Luckily for him, his brother happened to work in the [...]
Skin cells could become embryonic
If were possible to create cells and tissues from basic skin cells this would mean that this idea of using cloned cells and all of the problems associated with it would never need to be used. In fact there is evidence that a treatment like this is entirely possible.
Researchers from Kyoto University have report that [...]
The blueprint of all life
Researchers from North-western University are reporting that they believe that DNA is the blueprint for all life. It can give form to many different types of organisms from the basic one cell bacteria right up to the complex structure known as humans.
This blueprint is the designer, project leader and indeed the actual builder of these [...]
Cloned food, is it safe?
This is the sort of question that crops up in the end of the world sci-fi scenarios, but then it was fiction and now it fact. But how safe is it for us to eat food that has been created in a lab?
All of the relevant authorities believe that this type of food is completely [...]