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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/science/biotechnology science Biotechnology News en-us Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:47:33 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/science/biotechnology http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20120220/hl_hsn/genemightboostriskforobesity hsn/20120220/genemightboostriskforobesity HealthDay health Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:47:33 GMT HealthDay - SUNDAY, Feb. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A new animal study suggests that a genetic mutation could put certain people at higher risk for becoming obese if they eat high-fat diets. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120217/hl_nm/us_genes_inactivated nm/20120217/us_genes_inactivated Reuters health Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:44:05 GMT Reuters - Scientists studying the human genome have found that each of us is carrying around 20 genes that have been completely inactivated, suggesting that not all switched-off genes are harmful to health. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20120216/sc_livescience/humanshaveabout100brokengeneseach livescience/20120216/humanshaveabout100brokengeneseach LiveScience.com science Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:14:59 GMT LiveScience.com - A new analysis of 185 human genomes indicates that every one of us has about 100 "broken genes." Some of these lost genes cause harmful effects, many seem innocuous, and some even seem to have some benefit. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120215/hl_nm/us_counterfeits_cancerdrug nm/20120215/us_counterfeits_cancerdrug Reuters health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:27:55 GMT Reuters - Counterfeit versions of Roche's multi-billion cancer drug Avastin have been distributed in the United States, the Swiss drugmaker and its U.S. biotech unit Genentech said on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20120215/hl_ac/10963100_university_of_michigan_stem_cell_line_gets_federal_backing ac/20120215/10963100_university_of_michigan_stem_cell_line_gets_federal_backing ContributorNetwork health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:14:55 GMT ContributorNetwork - The University of Michigan Health System announced its first human embryonic stem cell line has been accepted by the National Institutes of Health register, making the cells available for federal research dollars. UM4-6 is the first stem cell line the University of Michigan has had accepted, says Gary Smith. Smith is the co-director for U-M Consortium for Stem Cell Therapies, a division of A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute in Ann Arbor and is responsible for deriving the line. Here are details about this event. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20120214/hl_hsn/stemcelltreatmentmightreverseheartattackdamage hsn/20120214/stemcelltreatmentmightreverseheartattackdamage HealthDay health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:46:54 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Stem cell therapy's promise for healing damaged tissues may have gotten a bit closer to reality. In a small, early study, heart damage was reversed in heart-attack patients treated with their own cardiac stem cells, researchers report. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120214/hl_nm/us_roche_avastin nm/20120214/us_roche_avastin Reuters health Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:47:44 GMT Reuters - Counterfeit versions of Roche's multi-billion cancer drug Avastin have been distributed in the United States, the Swiss drugmaker and its U.S. biotech unit Genentech said on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120214/hl_nm/us_actelion nm/20120214/us_actelion Reuters health Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:34:35 GMT Reuters - Swiss biotech group Actelion Ltd said it does not yet know what caused the deaths of 120 people on a late-stage trial for heart and lung drug macitentan, a candidate to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20120210/sc_livescience/twogenesforsealinginmemoriesidentified livescience/20120210/twogenesforsealinginmemoriesidentified LiveScience.com science Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:04:58 GMT LiveScience.com - Inside the teensy brains of fruit flies lies the blueprint for how memories form &mdash; information that likely carries over to our bulky noggins &mdash;&nbsp;and researchers have just identified two genes that are key to forming long-term memories. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120210/sc_nm/us_china_origin nm/20120210/us_china_origin Reuters science Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:06:59 GMT Reuters - Origin Agritech Ltd said it expects the Chinese government to approve its genetically modified organism (GMO) corn for production in 2013, China's first GMO strain in commercial production, its chairman Han Gengchen said on Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20120210/hl_hsn/4newgeneslinkedtotype2diabetes hsn/20120210/4newgeneslinkedtotype2diabetes HealthDay health Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:49:20 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Four new genes associated with type 2 diabetes have been identified by researchers, who also pinpointed six independent diabetes-associated gene variants at previously known locations on chromosomes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120209/hl_nm/us_biotech_fda nm/20120209/us_biotech_fda Reuters health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:46:43 GMT Reuters - The Food and Drug Administration's long-awaited guidelines for the sale of lower-cost versions of biotechnology drugs leave open the possibility that some products might not need to be tested in humans. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20120209/hl_hsn/moresuccesswithgenetherapyforblindness hsn/20120209/moresuccesswithgenetherapyforblindness HealthDay health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:47:03 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- As a child, Tami Morehouse had vision problems. She struggled to read the blackboard at school, and homework took hours. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20120203/hl_hsn/samegeneskeytoearlyamplateonsetalzheimersstudy hsn/20120203/samegeneskeytoearlyamplateonsetalzheimersstudy HealthDay health Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:46:55 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- People who develop Alzheimer's disease late in life may have the same gene mutations linked to the inherited, early onset form of the condition, according to a new study. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20120202/sc_livescience/sexparentinggenesdiscoveredinmice livescience/20120202/sexparentinggenesdiscoveredinmice LiveScience.com health Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:25:00 GMT LiveScience.com - Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but how did they get there? Our gender differences might be a function of how our brains react to hormones, a new study on mice suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120202/ap_on_el_pr/us_romney_s_investments ap/20120202/us_romney_s_investments AP Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:08:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120202/ap_on_el_pr/us_romney_s_investments"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120202/capt.b185c380de694d11b3fd8c98624e2b24-b185c380de694d11b3fd8c98624e2b24-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=J._NbJwtsSW2BJkCxIaIBg--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)" border="0" /></a>AP - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney promised in 2007 he would shed any investments that conflicted with Republican positions on hot-button domestic and foreign policy issues. But Romney's family trusts kept some of those holdings and repeatedly bought new ones until 2010, when they were finally sold off for more than $3 million, according to a detailed review of Romney's financial records by The Associated Press.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120202/ap_on_el_pr/us_romney_s_investments"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120202/capt.b185c380de694d11b3fd8c98624e2b24-b185c380de694d11b3fd8c98624e2b24-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=J._NbJwtsSW2BJkCxIaIBg--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20120202/hl_hsn/stemcelltherapyshowspromiseforstrokestudiessay hsn/20120202/stemcelltherapyshowspromiseforstrokestudiessay HealthDay health Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:46:53 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Treating stroke patients with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow appears to safely help them regain some of their lost abilities, two small new studies suggest. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20120131/hl_hsn/genestudyshedslightonbodyclockslinktodiabetes hsn/20120131/genestudyshedslightonbodyclockslinktodiabetes HealthDay health Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:46:57 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers studying the link between diabetes and a hormone that affects your so-called "body clock" have identified a genetic mutation in the receptor for the hormone, melatonin, that may to boost the risk of the disease. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20120129/pl_ac/10899655_santorums_hypocrisy_highlighted_by_daughters_illness ac/20120129/10899655_santorums_hypocrisy_highlighted_by_daughters_illness ContributorNetwork politics Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:50:49 GMT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum suspended his bid for the GOP nod to run against Barack Obama when his daughter, Bella Santorum, was hospitalized, according to the Associated Press. Bella suffers from Trisomy 18, a rare genetic disorder in which a baby has some or all of an extra chromosome. While it is always tragic for a parent to face losing a child, the situation highlights a political issue: Santorum's hypocrisy on health care, abortion and embryonic stem cell research. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biotech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120129/ap_on_sc/ml_egypt_ancient_cancer ap/20120129/ml_egypt_ancient_cancer AP health Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:16:33 GMT AP - A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment.