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South Korea plans to build the world's largest stem cell research and treatment centre in Seoul by 2013

S.Korea lifts ban on stem cell research

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korea on Wednesday conditionally lifted a ban on stem cell research using human eggs, three years after outlawing the practice because a scientist was found to have faked his work.





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Bioethicist: Egg donors should be paid

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created Aug 10, 2006 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A U.S. bioethicist says women who donate their eggs for stem cell research should be compensated, as are other healthy research volunteers.


Most women report satisfaction with egg donation; some claim problems

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created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two-thirds of women who donated eggs to fertility clinics reported satisfaction with the process, but 16 percent complained of subsequent physical symptoms and 20 percent reported lasting psychological effects, according ...


Increasing the number of kidney transplants

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created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In most transplant centers, the kidneys of very young deceased donors are transplanted together into one patient. According to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (C ...


Campaign donors survey: Women and young people behind Obama's small donor success

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created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More individuals gave more money to candidates for federal office, national and state party committees, and political action committees or other interest groups in 2007󈝴 than in any previous election. The surge in ...


MSU researchers improve zebrafish cloning methods

Researchers improve zebrafish cloning methods

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created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a new, more efficient way of cloning zebra fish, a breakthrough that could have implications for human health research.


US woman gives birth to baby from world's first frozen donor egg bank

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created Jan 03, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Wendy and Jared Kennedy find it hard to take their eyes off their new daughter, Avery Lee, born in the early morning hours of Dec. 31 at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center. Avery is special to them for many ...


Md. doctor: Kidney transplant record achieved (AP)

Md. doctor: Kidney transplant record achieved

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created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A transplant surgeon who completed an unprecedented eight-way kidney swap this week said Tuesday he believes such intricate, multistate exchanges can drastically reduce the number of patients waiting ...


In vitro antibody production enables HIV infection detection in window period -- key to safer blood

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers in Israel and Kenya have shown that the contribution of variable degrees of immune suppression, either due to existing chronic infections such as parasitemias and/or nutrition, in different populations may influence ...


In Brief: Egg donors sue S. Korean hospitals

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created Apr 22, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Two women who donated eggs for research by South Korean cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk have filed a lawsuit claiming they were misled about the risks.


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New York Times publishes 'crowd-funded' article

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance ...



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