Researchers have modified algae to grow human therapeutic proteins that treat a range of diseases at levels suitable for commercial production.

Nanosilver, used as a bactericidal agent, was suspended in solution and found to be toxic, sometimes lethal, to minnows, a Purdue University study showed.

Interesting science; dangerous headline – but dangerous for informed debate, not human health.

Reversing a protein deficiency through gene therapy can correct motor function, restore nerve signals and improve survival in mice that serve as a model for the lethal childhood disorder spinal muscular atrophy.

Mouse embryonic stem cells have been used to replace diseased retinal cells and restore sight in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa.

Apparently the nano zinc in sunscreens is getting into our bodies and who knows what it can do to us. At least that would be a reasonable conclusion to draw if you read The Australian today.

Some of mankind’s most devastating inherited diseases appear to be declining, and a few have nearly disappeared, because more people are using genetic testing to decide whether to have children.

Coating a modified virus with a polymer dramatically increases their ability to penetrate and deliver therapeutic genes to cancer cells.

It was hoped using reprogrammed mature cells would be a noncontroversial alternative to embryonic stem cells, but their low replication rates and premature ageing are proving problematic.

An experimental treatment involving human embryonic stem cells was associated with improved outcomes in tests on mice with acute lung injury.