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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2367 science Biotechnology News en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:48:51 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/hsn/genetherapyforfatalbraindisorderjustthebeginning hsn/20091106/genetherapyforfatalbraindisorderjustthebeginning HealthDay health Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:48:51 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- The reported success of gene therapy in treating two children with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) brings hope to patients with the potentially crippling and fatal brain disorder and their families, says a nonprofit group that supports ALD research. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/geneslinkedtopotbelly hsn/20091106/geneslinkedtopotbelly HealthDay health Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:48:46 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- New research sheds light on the possible link between the genes you inherit and the size of your belly. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_genome_cheap nm/20091106/us_genome_cheap Reuters topstories Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:24:11 GMT Reuters - Want to know your entire DNA sequence? A California company has done it for as little as $1,700. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/hl_afp/healthdiseasegeneticsald afp/20091105/healthdiseasegeneticsald AFP health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:09:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/hl_afp/healthdiseasegeneticsald"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257462468841-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=BB3FTV6oIld1aKd.bC1FDw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Stem cell cultures are held up at a lab. A breakthrough mix of stem cell and gene therapy halted a lethal brain-wasting illness in two young boys, and could prove effective against other genetic disorders, researchers reported Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A breakthrough mix of stem cell and gene therapy halted a lethal brain-wasting illness in two young boys, and could prove effective against other genetic disorders, researchers reported Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/hl_afp/healthdiseasegeneticsald"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257462468841-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=BB3FTV6oIld1aKd.bC1FDw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Stem cell cultures are held up at a lab. A breakthrough mix of stem cell and gene therapy halted a lethal brain-wasting illness in two young boys, and could prove effective against other genetic disorders, researchers reported Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_he_me/us_med_gene_therapy ap/20091105/us_med_gene_therapy AP health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:12:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_he_me/us_med_gene_therapy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257462468841-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=BB3FTV6oIld1aKd.bC1FDw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Stem cell cultures are held up at a lab. A breakthrough mix of stem cell and gene therapy halted a lethal brain-wasting illness in two young boys, and could prove effective against other genetic disorders, researchers reported Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_he_me/us_med_gene_therapy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257462468841-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=BB3FTV6oIld1aKd.bC1FDw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Stem cell cultures are held up at a lab. A breakthrough mix of stem cell and gene therapy halted a lethal brain-wasting illness in two young boys, and could prove effective against other genetic disorders, researchers reported Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/hl_nm/us_gene_therapy_ald nm/20091105/us_gene_therapy_ald Reuters health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:36:15 GMT Reuters - Scientists have managed to halt a rare and fatal brain disease with an experimental gene therapy technique using a deactivated version of the AIDS virus, a study published on Thursday showed. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091104/hl_nm/us_genes_pain nm/20091104/us_genes_pain Reuters health Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:31:52 GMT Reuters - A person's genetic makeup may play an important role in the odds of suffering neck or back pain, new research suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/hl_nm/us_human_genome nm/20091102/us_human_genome Reuters health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:24:31 GMT Reuters - Human Genome Sciences Inc said its experimental lupus drug Benlysta eased symptoms in more than 43 percent of patients who took it in a clinical trial, paving the way for approval of the first new treatment for the disease in 50 years. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091030/us_nm/us_amgen_lawsuit nm/20091030/us_amgen_lawsuit Reuters us Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:19:07 GMT Reuters - Biotechnology giant Amgen Inc and drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen Corp were sued on Friday by 14 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over an alleged kickback scheme designed to boost sales of Amgen's popular anemia drug, Aranesp. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091030/hl_nm/us_genes_churchgoers nm/20091030/us_genes_churchgoers Reuters health Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:02:17 GMT Reuters - Churchgoers have been found to have lower rates of drinking and smoking than those who spend their Sundays elsewhere. Now a new study suggests that for adults, it may not be church attendance itself that explains much of the phenomenon. It might be genes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/sc_afp/environmentmexicofarmbiotechcorn afp/20091029/environmentmexicofarmbiotechcorn AFP science Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:30:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/sc_afp/environmentmexicofarmbiotechcorn"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256830162575-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=cY3q.LcHXCz9BhQTmZ7nLg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="A Mexican farmer takes part in a protest in Mexico City in January 2009. As scientists race the clock to increase food production worldwide, new trials to plant genetically-modified maize have stoked anger in Mexico, the cradle of corn.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)" border="0" /></a>AFP - As scientists race the clock to increase food production worldwide, new trials to plant genetically-modified maize have stoked anger in Mexico, the cradle of corn.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/sc_afp/environmentmexicofarmbiotechcorn"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256830162575-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=cY3q.LcHXCz9BhQTmZ7nLg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="A Mexican farmer takes part in a protest in Mexico City in January 2009. As scientists race the clock to increase food production worldwide, new trials to plant genetically-modified maize have stoked anger in Mexico, the cradle of corn.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/hl_nm/us_genes_hoard nm/20091029/us_genes_hoard Reuters health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:32:05 GMT Reuters - People who have a compulsive urge to collect and clutter their homes with junk can partly attribute their problem to genes, a new study confirms. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/sc_nm/us_genes_driving nm/20091029/us_genes_driving Reuters health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:33:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/sc_nm/us_genes_driving"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091028/i/r2952933479.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=ghdhto_Hg2d18bDRa3wXaA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Vehicles drive past a carbon counting sign on the Deutsche Bank building in New York June 18, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Thayer" border="0" /></a>Reuters - No need to curse that bad driver weaving in and out of the lane in front of you -- he cannot help it, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/sc_nm/us_genes_driving"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091028/i/r2952933479.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=ghdhto_Hg2d18bDRa3wXaA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Vehicles drive past a carbon counting sign on the Deutsche Bank building in New York June 18, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Thayer" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091029/hl_hsn/repairinginjuredlungsmayboostorgandonations hsn/20091029/repairinginjuredlungsmayboostorgandonations HealthDay health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:49:02 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- A new type of gene therapy for injured lungs that were previously rejected for transplantation may increase the number of lungs available for transplant, researchers say. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091028/ap_on_he_me/us_med_donated_lungs ap/20091028/us_med_donated_lungs AP health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091028/ap_on_he_me/us_med_donated_lungs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091028/capt.a66007f32eb644859351cf2ec05f661a.donated_lungs_wx104.jpg?x=130&y=68&q=85&sig=MpsZ73gdoQzoHnnJVuFE9g--" align="left" height="68" width="130" alt="This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows ex vino gene repair of human lungs. Call it a genetic patch job for worn lungs: Canadian researchers took donated lungs deemed too damaged to transplant and repaired them with outside-the-body gene therapy. (AP Photo/Science)" border="0" /></a>AP - Call it a genetic patch job for worn lungs: Canadian researchers took donated lungs deemed too damaged to transplant and repaired them with outside-the-body gene therapy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091028/ap_on_he_me/us_med_donated_lungs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091028/capt.a66007f32eb644859351cf2ec05f661a.donated_lungs_wx104.jpg?x=130&y=68&q=85&sig=MpsZ73gdoQzoHnnJVuFE9g--" align="left" height="68" width="130" alt="photo" title="This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows ex vino gene repair of human lungs. Call it a genetic patch job for worn lungs: Canadian researchers took donated lungs deemed too damaged to transplant and repaired them with outside-the-body gene therapy. (AP Photo/Science)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/sc_afp/sciencehealthgeneticsevolutionculture afp/20091028/sciencehealthgeneticsevolutionculture AFP science Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:36:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/sc_afp/sciencehealthgeneticsevolutionculture"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091028/capt.photo_1256751330172-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=JN3w0WduGmC028wKVCqMXQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="This undated illustration shows the DNA double helix. Culture, not just genes, can drive evolutionary outcomes, according to a study released Wednesday that compares individualist and group-oriented societies across the globe.(AFP/HO/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Culture, not just genes, can drive evolutionary outcomes, according to a study released Wednesday that compares individualist and group-oriented societies across the globe.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/sc_afp/sciencehealthgeneticsevolutionculture"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091028/capt.photo_1256751330172-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=JN3w0WduGmC028wKVCqMXQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="This undated illustration shows the DNA double helix. Culture, not just genes, can drive evolutionary outcomes, according to a study released Wednesday that compares individualist and group-oriented societies across the globe.(AFP/HO/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091027/hl_nm/us_humangenome_abthrax nm/20091027/us_humangenome_abthrax Reuters health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:25:41 GMT Reuters - Animal data suggests a proposed Human Genome Sciences Inc drug may help people exposed to anthrax but more study is needed to show the treatment adds benefit beyond antibiotics alone, a U.S. advisory panel said on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091027/ap_on_go_ot/us_embryos_lawsuit ap/20091027/us_embryos_lawsuit AP politics Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:46:32 GMT AP - A judge on Tuesday dismissed a Christian adoption agency's challenge to Obama administration regulations expanding stem cell research. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091026/sc_livescience/frauderrorsandmisconceptionsinmedicalresearch livescience/20091026/frauderrorsandmisconceptionsinmedicalresearch LiveScience.com science Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:37:10 GMT LiveScience.com - Three years after being charged for fraud, misusing state funds and violating bioethics laws, disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk was convicted today on some but not all charges. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/ap_on_sc/as_skorea_disgraced_scientist ap/20091026/as_skorea_disgraced_scientist AP science Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:31:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/ap_on_sc/as_skorea_disgraced_scientist"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091026/capt.073c2c4c4c7846009d76565c86b8cc1e.south_korea_disgraced_scientist_sel104.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=ywL3GV3uUMDyHagfINMayg--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="South Korean disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk, center, arrives for his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. The court prepared to deliver a verdict Monday in the trial of Hwang whose fraudulent claims of breakthroughs in stem cell research shook the international scientific community. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)" border="0" /></a>AP - A South Korean stem cell scientist once hailed as a hero for bringing hope to people with incurable diseases and creating the world's first cloned dog was convicted Monday on criminal charges related to faked research, but avoided jail.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/ap_on_sc/as_skorea_disgraced_scientist"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091026/capt.073c2c4c4c7846009d76565c86b8cc1e.south_korea_disgraced_scientist_sel104.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=ywL3GV3uUMDyHagfINMayg--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="South Korean disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk, center, arrives for his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. The court prepared to deliver a verdict Monday in the trial of Hwang whose fraudulent claims of breakthroughs in stem cell research shook the international scientific community. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)