Life Science

When you’re getting new tools to explore disease like the ones mentioned below, it’s hard to wait to see what gets built with them. From the ACS meeting–American Chemical Society, that is. As our understanding of biology increases, the tools of research become almost as important as the researchers wielding them. Currently, one of the major obstacles to research is ...

Researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute have altered the genome of mice to express a human protein called PPAR-delta. This change enabled the mice to double their endurance. The genetic transformation is permanent and will be inherited by next-generation mice. With no previous running experience, most mice can run about 900 meters before exhaustion. But the genetically altered mice can ...

In what was clearly glossed over in our current war on terrorism, the FBI has recently said that eco-terrorism — acts of violence in protest of harm to animals or to the environment — is the United States’ No. 1 terrorism threat from inside its own borders. Not sure how many of the Bio-Tech companies we want to work with ...

Cancer cells tricked into suicide This is a really intresting article that shows that Cancer cells can be tricked into suicide. As we all know Cancer spreads because a gene which normally kills off cells is faulty in cancer cells. Scientists at Cancer Research UK say they have been able to get around this problem by inserting this “suicide” gene ...