Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2367 science Biotechnology News en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:48:24 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2367 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/eufarmenvironmentbiotechgmofrance afp/20090703/eufarmenvironmentbiotechgmofrance AFP science Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:48:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/eufarmenvironmentbiotechgmofrance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246641619563-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=GZMO3R0AI4QsE0.eQ8m5pw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Activists fly a kite to protest against the cultivation of genetically modified maize. France on Friday rejected a report by the European Union's food safety watchdog that declared a genetically modified strain of maize, banned in six EU countries, to be safe for health and the environment.(AFP/DDP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - France on Friday rejected a report by the European Union's food safety watchdog that said a controversial strain of genetically-modified corn was safe.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/eufarmenvironmentbiotechgmofrance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246641619563-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=GZMO3R0AI4QsE0.eQ8m5pw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Activists fly a kite to protest against the cultivation of genetically modified maize. France on Friday rejected a report by the European Union's food safety watchdog that declared a genetically modified strain of maize, banned in six EU countries, to be safe for health and the environment.(AFP/DDP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthflujapanresistance afp/20090702/healthflujapanresistance AFP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:19:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthflujapanresistance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246560774549-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=MoazxBh4daYCNtJeyhqjaA--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="Boxes of the antiviral drug Tamiflu prescribed for influenza A (H1N1). A genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to the anti-viral Tamiflu has been discovered in Japan, the first such case in the country, the health ministry said.(AFP/File/Carlos Jasso)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to the anti-viral Tamiflu has been discovered in Japan, the first such case in the country, the health ministry said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthflujapanresistance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246560774549-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=MoazxBh4daYCNtJeyhqjaA--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="photo" title="Boxes of the antiviral drug Tamiflu prescribed for influenza A (H1N1). A genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to the anti-viral Tamiflu has been discovered in Japan, the first such case in the country, the health ministry said.(AFP/File/Carlos Jasso)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research ap/20090702/us_med_swine_flu_research AP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:03:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.911dc8a160b04620868479cfeba3d71e.argentina_swine_flu_bai108.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=_LBWDcYtKsk_iK_7cbH2gw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="A physician holds samples of patients suspected of being infected with swine flu at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Health authorities have warned that while the swine flu peak has passed in Mexico, the Southern Hemisphere is at risk as it heads deeper into its winter flu season as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Pontoriero)" border="0" /></a>AP - With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is — so far — more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.911dc8a160b04620868479cfeba3d71e.argentina_swine_flu_bai108.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=_LBWDcYtKsk_iK_7cbH2gw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="A physician holds samples of patients suspected of being infected with swine flu at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Health authorities have warned that while the swine flu peak has passed in Mexico, the Southern Hemisphere is at risk as it heads deeper into its winter flu season as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Pontoriero)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090702/hl_hsn/masterstemcellforhumanheartidentified hsn/20090702/masterstemcellforhumanheartidentified HealthDay health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:49:11 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time, researchers have identified a single "master" stem cell in humans that is capable of differentiating into all three major cell types that make up the human heart. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_sc/us_med_genetics_prize ap/20090701/us_med_genetics_prize AP health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:17:30 GMT AP - An 84-year-old University of Chicago researcher has won a half-million-dollar genetics prize for her pioneering work in showing that cancer is a genetic disease. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090701/pl_bloomberg/aye7mh2mcxuc bloomberg/20090701/aye7mh2mcxuc Bloomberg politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:39:06 GMT Bloomberg - July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Biogen Idec Inc., the world’s largest maker of drugs for multiple sclerosis, will pay as much as $510 million for rights to market Acorda Therapeutics Inc.’s experimental MS pill outside the U.S. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090630/hl_nm/us_ge_stemcells nm/20090630/us_ge_stemcells Reuters health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:36:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090630/hl_nm/us_ge_stemcells"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090630/i/r51447734.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=pokaFbIpzAs9WeNkhLGgHg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Vials of extra-embryonic stem cells are pictured at a stem cell research center at the University of California San Francisco March 10, 2009. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith" border="0" /></a>Reuters - General Electric Co is teaming up with U.S. biotech company Geron Corp to use stem cells to develop products that could give drug developers an early warning of whether new medicines are toxic.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090630/hl_nm/us_ge_stemcells"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090630/i/r51447734.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=pokaFbIpzAs9WeNkhLGgHg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Vials of extra-embryonic stem cells are pictured at a stem cell research center at the University of California San Francisco March 10, 2009. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/hl_afp/eufarmenvironmentbiotechgmo afp/20090630/eufarmenvironmentbiotechgmo AFP health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:41:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/hl_afp/eufarmenvironmentbiotechgmo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246375920817-1-0.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=YduGkwE_CieWM_jz0CpF3Q--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="A woman carries a bag full of maize on her head. A genetically modified strain of maize, banned in some EU countries, poses no risk to health or the environment, the European Food Safety Authority declared.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A genetically modified strain of maize, banned in some EU countries, poses no risk to health or the environment, the European Food Safety Authority declared on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/hl_afp/eufarmenvironmentbiotechgmo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246375920817-1-0.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=YduGkwE_CieWM_jz0CpF3Q--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="photo" title="A woman carries a bag full of maize on her head. A genetically modified strain of maize, banned in some EU countries, poses no risk to health or the environment, the European Food Safety Authority declared.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090629/hl_nm/us_biogen nm/20090629/us_biogen Reuters health Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:23:34 GMT Reuters - A 10th patient taking Biogen Idec Inc's Tysabri has developed a potentially deadly brain infection since the multiple sclerosis drug was reintroduced to the market in July 2006, sending the company's shares down nearly 7 percent. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090627/sc_livescience/geneticallymodifiedricefightsallergies livescience/20090627/geneticallymodifiedricefightsallergies LiveScience.com health Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:50:56 GMT LiveScience.com - What if the food we ate fought allergies instead of causing them? A new form of rice can, researchers announced this week. But is it safe?