July - Dec 2012

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  Fighting the White Death: A new treatment for TB

  31st August 2012

  For most people born in the United States in the past half century tuberculosis (TB) is a disease you only read about in the history books, to which it was consigned by the development of antibiotics such as streptomycin in the aftermath of the second world war.

• Alcohol breakdown product damages stem cells

  29th August 2012

  New research in mice has shown that stem cells in bone marrow are extremely sensitive to the main breakdown product of alcohol which causes irreversible damage to their DNA.

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  Stem cell key identified

  23rd August 2012

  Scientists believe they have identified a key protein that keeps stem cells primed and ready to turn into any cell type when needed.

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  Scientists crack the vision code

  20th August 2012

  Two scientists have cracked the code used by cells at the back of the eye to convert light into a signal that our brain is able to understand.

• “Male pill” discovered in mice experiments

  17th August 2012

  A molecule originally being tested for its anti-cancer properties could be used to control male fertility tests in mice show.

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  Mice show crucial role of cancer stem-cells

  15th August 2012

  Do cancers have their own stem-cells?

• Video: Marmosets and research into Parkinson’s Disease

  13th August 2012

  Video: Marmosets and research into Parkinson’s Disease Geoff Butcher has Parkinson's disease. He is also a volunteer speaker for Understanding Animal Research (UAR) so was an obvious candidate to interview staff at King’s College, London.

• Video: Marmosets and research into Parkinson’s Disease

  13th August 2012

  Geoff Butcher has Parkinson's disease. He is also a volunteer speaker for Understanding Animal Research (UAR) so was an obvious candidate to interview staff at King’s College, London about their use of marmosets in research into Parkinson’s disease.

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  Stem cells could replace bone-marrow transplants

  10th August 2012

  Scientists have used cytokins – cell signalling molecules – to develop a stem cell therapy for treating blood diseases like leukaemia.

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  March of the cyborgs

  2nd August 2012

  Even before being shocked into action with electricity the jellyfish twitches uncontrollably, as if excited to begin the experiment.