Pro-Life Initiative Citizens Worries E.Ü. Scientists

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Pro-Life Initiative Citizens Worries E.Ü. Scientists - credit: © Istockphoto.com/virtualphoto Brussels A group of European pro-life organizations mobilizes against research embryonic stem cells in a way that the European Commission can not ignore. One of us,...

UK Looks at Scrap Privacy Policy for Animal Research

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UK Looks at Scrap Privacy Policy for Animal Research - laboratory mice Wikimedia / Aaron Logan of http://www.lightmatter.net/gallery/albums.php UK has proposed the removal of obsolete confidentiality rules that prohibit the dissemination of information on research...

A lonely crusade

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Six smallpox vials discovered in US laboratory

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Six smallpox vials discovered in US laboratory - Federal scientists last week discovered a half dozen bottles of forgotten smallpox virus while cleaning an area storage on the campus of the National Institutes of health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Smallpox or smallpox, which killed hundreds of...

Uncontacted Indians of Brazil he received proper medical care?

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Uncontacted Indians of Brazil he received proper medical care? - Scientists and the Government of Brazil disagree about whether the Amazon uncontacted tribes that came with the flu after making contact with the outside world last month received appropriate medical treatment. At least one scientist...

The other Ebola debate: What about existing drugs

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The other Ebola debate: What about existing drugs - An ethics committee organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) broke ground today when he said that the use of drugs or experimental vaccines not approved in the current Ebola outbreak is ethical assuming a set of criteria is met. There is...

Genomes early Ebola outbreak

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Genomes early Ebola outbreak - [reveal When the young woman arrived at the government hospital in Kenema in Sierra Leone in late May, she had a high fever and was aborted. The hospital suspected she had contracted Lassa fever, because the viral disease is endemic...

The Liberian Ebola problem much worse than imagined, said WHO

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The Liberian Ebola problem much worse than imagined, said WHO - The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a statement saying that the problems related to the Ebola outbreak in Liberia are becoming more urgent. Here is the full statement: Situation in Liberia: unconventional necessary interventions...

FDA defends plan to regulate laboratory developed tests

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FDA defends plan to regulate laboratory developed tests - A move by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the diagnostic tests developed in thousands of laboratories is picking up steam Fire and drawing. The agency recently informed Congress that it plans to regulate some of these...

Stem cell therapy seems safe for serious eye disease

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Stem cell therapy seems safe for serious eye disease - Eighteen adults with a serious eye disease that were among the first to receive transplants created from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) still do not have apparent complications with the cells introduced after an average of almost 2 years,...

To fight malaria and dengue mosquitoes vaccinate

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To fight malaria and dengue mosquitoes vaccinate - If there is one thing that the malaria parasite will, it is to penetrate into the bowels of a mosquito. Once there, it releases hundreds of giant cells which enter the human body through a blood-bite. Now scientists have found a way to make the mosquitoes...

Stem cell recipes go head to head

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Stem cell recipes go head to head - What is the best recipe to create specific stem cells to patients? The issue has generated years of debate and a series of contradictory documents. Ideally, the cells must develop into any cell type as well as those of a natural embryo do. For now, 7 years, the...