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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2367 Biotechnology News en-us Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:18:43 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2367 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/sc_nm/cancer_bowel_dc nm/20080820/cancer_bowel_dc Reuters Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:18:43 GMT Reuters - Stem cell scientists have developed a new and more accurate way of spotting aggressive forms of bowel cancer, allowing for tailored treatment that should improve patients' chances of survival. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080819/ts_afp/sciencehealthgeneticsraceventer afp/20080819/sciencehealthgeneticsraceventer AFP Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:55:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080819/ts_afp/sciencehealthgeneticsraceventer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080819/capt.cps.nim88.200808015400.photo00.photo.default-341x512.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=YWmo_qFJeX65vf1nPeO1Xw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Personalised, genome-based health care could help prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths caused each year by adverse drug reactions, genetics pioneer Craig Venter, pictured in 2007, said Tuesday.(AFP/HO/File/Evan Hurd)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Personalised, genome-based health care could help prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths caused each year by adverse drug reactions, genetics pioneer Craig Venter said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080819/ts_afp/sciencehealthgeneticsraceventer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080819/capt.cps.nim88.200808015400.photo00.photo.default-341x512.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=YWmo_qFJeX65vf1nPeO1Xw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Personalised, genome-based health care could help prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths caused each year by adverse drug reactions, genetics pioneer Craig Venter, pictured in 2007, said Tuesday.(AFP/HO/File/Evan Hurd)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/ap_on_re_us/cloned_dogs_tennessee ap/20080815/cloned_dogs_tennessee AP Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:05:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/ap_on_re_us/cloned_dogs_tennessee"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080809/capt.87130c419d0147319cc1aff395b06556.cloned_dogs_mormon_hostage_ny123.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=Wex4Ht149hT7wMABcWKBgQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="In this Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, file photo, Bernann McKinney of the U.S. holds one of five cloned pitbull pupies during her first meeting with them at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A woman who made headlines by having five pups cloned and was linked to an abduction case in England is also wanted in Tennessee on charges she tried to plan a burglary in 2004, a defense attorney and prosecutors there said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/ap_on_re_us/cloned_dogs_tennessee"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080809/capt.87130c419d0147319cc1aff395b06556.cloned_dogs_mormon_hostage_ny123.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=Wex4Ht149hT7wMABcWKBgQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, file photo, Bernann McKinney of the U.S. holds one of five cloned pitbull pupies during her first meeting with them at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080813/sc_afp/britainenvironmentfoodroyals afp/20080813/britainenvironmentfoodroyals AFP Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:43:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080813/sc_afp/britainenvironmentfoodroyals"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080813/capt.cps.ngw50.130808141717.photo00.photo.default-313x512.jpg?x=79&y=130&q=85&sig=vEbGwi9lksd38VzyvaQ12Q--" align="left" height="130" width="79" alt="Prince Charles and his wife Camilla visit a farmers' market in California in 2005. Charles drew criticism with an outspoken attack on industrial farming, warning genetically modified food could be the "biggest disaster environmentally of all time."(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Jackson)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Prince Charles drew criticism with an outspoken attack on industrial farming Wednesday, warning genetically modified food could be the "biggest disaster environmentally of all time."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080813/sc_afp/britainenvironmentfoodroyals"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080813/capt.cps.ngw50.130808141717.photo00.photo.default-313x512.jpg?x=79&y=130&q=85&sig=vEbGwi9lksd38VzyvaQ12Q--" align="left" height="130" width="79" alt="photo" title="Prince Charles and his wife Camilla visit a farmers' market in California in 2005. Charles drew criticism with an outspoken attack on industrial farming, warning genetically modified food could be the "biggest disaster environmentally of all time."(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Jackson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_re_us/cloned_dogs_mormon_hostage ap/20080810/cloned_dogs_mormon_hostage AP Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:15:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_re_us/cloned_dogs_mormon_hostage"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080809/capt.87130c419d0147319cc1aff395b06556.cloned_dogs_mormon_hostage_ny123.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=Wex4Ht149hT7wMABcWKBgQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="In this Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, file photo, Bernann McKinney of the U.S. holds one of five cloned pitbull pupies during her first meeting with them at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She's the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_re_us/cloned_dogs_mormon_hostage"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080809/capt.87130c419d0147319cc1aff395b06556.cloned_dogs_mormon_hostage_ny123.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=Wex4Ht149hT7wMABcWKBgQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, file photo, Bernann McKinney of the U.S. holds one of five cloned pitbull pupies during her first meeting with them at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080807/sc_nm/stemcells_diseases_dc nm/20080807/stemcells_diseases_dc Reuters Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:01:04 GMT Reuters - U.S. stem cell experts have produced a library of the powerful cells using ordinary skin and bone marrow cells from patients, and said on Thursday they would share them freely with other researchers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_on_sc/skorea_cloned_dogs ap/20080806/skorea_cloned_dogs AP Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:02:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_on_sc/skorea_cloned_dogs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080805/capt.0062d87065974970b7eafd07fa4b1888.south_korea_cloned_dogs_xahn105.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=RREB68Gq_s4TGfly8Q94XA--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Five cloned pitbull puppies are seen with mother dog during at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. McKinney has received five baby dogs _copies of her beloved late pitbull 'Booger'- from a South Korean biotech firm in what it calls the world's first commercial canine cloning service.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)" border="0" /></a>AP - Booger is back. An American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world's first successful commercial canine cloning service.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_on_sc/skorea_cloned_dogs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080805/capt.0062d87065974970b7eafd07fa4b1888.south_korea_cloned_dogs_xahn105.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=RREB68Gq_s4TGfly8Q94XA--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="Five cloned pitbull puppies are seen with mother dog during at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. McKinney has received five baby dogs _copies of her beloved late pitbull 'Booger'- from a South Korean biotech firm in what it calls the world's first commercial canine cloning service.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080801/sc_nm/korea_cloning_dc nm/20080801/korea_cloning_dc Reuters Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:47:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080801/sc_nm/korea_cloning_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080801/i/ra4037684309.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=A1eQnIqaUxNV4hfCRRbSDQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk arrives for his trial at a court in Seoul in this June 19, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The South Korean government on Friday barred disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk from resuming his research into cloned human embryonic stem cells.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080801/sc_nm/korea_cloning_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080801/i/ra4037684309.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=A1eQnIqaUxNV4hfCRRbSDQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="Stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk arrives for his trial at a court in Seoul in this June 19, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080731/ts_alt_afp/uspharmacompanytakeoverbristolmyersimclone afp/20080731/uspharmacompanytakeoverbristolmyersimclone AFP Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:37:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080731/ts_alt_afp/uspharmacompanytakeoverbristolmyersimclone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080731/capt.cps.ndr42.310708183518.photo00.photo.default-512x336.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=qoBx_UksF0YtC1PM.LPdMQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A Bristol-Myers Squibb office building in Saint-Nazaire, France in 2005. Bristol-Myers Squibb, the US pharmaceuticals group, said Thursday it has offered to buy its biotechnology partner ImClone Systems in an all-cash deal worth around 4.5 billion dollars.(AFP/File/Frank Perry)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Bristol-Myers Squibb, the US pharmaceuticals group, said Thursday it has offered to buy its biotechnology partner ImClone Systems in an all-cash deal worth around 4.5 billion dollars.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080731/ts_alt_afp/uspharmacompanytakeoverbristolmyersimclone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080731/capt.cps.ndr42.310708183518.photo00.photo.default-512x336.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=qoBx_UksF0YtC1PM.LPdMQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Bristol-Myers Squibb office building in Saint-Nazaire, France in 2005. Bristol-Myers Squibb, the US pharmaceuticals group, said Thursday it has offered to buy its biotechnology partner ImClone Systems in an all-cash deal worth around 4.5 billion dollars.(AFP/File/Frank Perry)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080731/sc_afp/healthskoreastemcellhwang afp/20080731/healthskoreastemcellhwang AFP Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:17:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080731/sc_afp/healthskoreastemcellhwang"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080731/capt.cps.ndr27.310708160858.photo00.photo.default-337x431.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=8A47yQ86CM01YckFlizGDA--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="A South Korean supporter of disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo Suk, rallies in Seoul in 2007. It was announced Thursday that South Korea will not allow Hwang Woo-Suk to resume human stem cell research.(AFP/File/Choi Won-Suk)" border="0" /></a>AFP - South Korea will not allow disgraced cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk to resume human stem cell research, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080731/sc_afp/healthskoreastemcellhwang"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080731/capt.cps.ndr27.310708160858.photo00.photo.default-337x431.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=8A47yQ86CM01YckFlizGDA--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="photo" title="A South Korean supporter of disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo Suk, rallies in Seoul in 2007. It was announced Thursday that South Korea will not allow Hwang Woo-Suk to resume human stem cell research.(AFP/File/Choi Won-Suk)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)