Russian regulators have approved Living Cell Technologies’ encapsulation device that
places insulin producing cells from a pig into the human patient to treat type 1 diabetes.

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.