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- Health & Medicine
19th International AIDS Conference
Highlights from the AIDS meeting, July 22-27, Washington, D.C.
- Genetics
Cloning-like method targets mitochondrial diseases
Providing healthy ‘power plants’ in donor egg cells appears feasible in humans, a new study finds.
- Life
Old cancer drugs offer new tricks
Drugs that reboot genetic programming make tumor cells more susceptible to cancer-killing therapy.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Human livers implanted in mice, plus new eye of newt, the potato genome and more in this week’s news.
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- Health & Medicine
Gene therapy for Parkinson’s advances
Brain surgery to insert genetic cargo improves movement in some patients, a study shows.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Gene therapy for dogs, plus an HIV gatekeeper and new neurons from skin in this week’s news.
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2011 Science News of the Year: Genes & Cells
Nicolle Rager Fuller Boons and busts via gut microbes Studying the secret lives of bacteria living in human intestines has yielded some unexpected finds. One study suggests that most humans have one of three different combinations of friendly microbes (SN: 5/21/11, p. 14), and another reveals that people’s mix of microbes depends heavily on diet. […]
- Life
Stem cell treatment spurs cartilage growth
A small molecule called kartogenin prompts the manufacture of lost connective tissue in mice.
- Life
Daytime anesthesia gives bees jet lag
Honeybees, as stand-ins for surgery patients, show drug’s aftereffects as biorhythms get out sync.
- Science & Society
No New Meds
With drug firms in retreat, the pipeline for new psychiatric medications dries up.
- Life
Gene therapy for depression
Researchers were able to reduce pathological behaviors in mice by delivering genetic material to a particular brain region.
