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HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Jim Schnabel	Oxygen on the Brain An ancient cellular program to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells.
Scientific American December 2008 Tim Hornyak	Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells? Shinya Yamanaka discovered how to revert adult cells to an embryonic state. These induced pluripotent stem cells might soon supplant their embryonic cousins in therapeutic promise
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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Richard Saltus	Three-Dimensional Cell Cultures Thinking big but starting small, Sangeeta Bhatia is closing in on her ambitious goal: growing human livers in the lab from scratch.
Chemistry World August 19, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Antioxidants could promote cancer Some tumor cells can actually use antioxidants to protect themselves from natural cellular defense mechanisms, enabling them to survive and proliferate.
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004 Arlene Weintraub	The Stem-Cell Flap: Simmer Down Advocates are overstating stem cells' near-term ability to treat grave illnesses. In doing so, they not only distort the science; the hopes they raise among many people who are sick today are also sure to be dashed.
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HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Mitch Leslie	Immune System Defects Can Cause Obsessive Behavior A shortage of certain immune cells might prompt obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Scientific American December 2006 Philip E. Ross	Putting Up with Self Critics warned of bad experiments and false hope. But Denise Faustman seems to be right about a strategy to regrow insulin-making cells killed off in diabetes
Chemistry World August 15, 2007 John Bonner	Chemists Claim Biological Alchemy South Korean chemists say they have turned muscle cells from the sole of a human foot into something akin to stem cells, using a simple molecule called neurodazine.
Scientific American November 2005 Charles Q. Choi	Baby to Brain Mothers could literally always have their kids on their minds. Researchers find that in mice, cells from fetuses can migrate into a mother's brain and apparently develop into nervous system cells.
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Smithsonian March 2004	Signal Discovery? A Los Angeles scientist says living cells may make distinct sounds, which might someday help doctors "hear" diseases
The Motley Fool November 28, 2007 Brian Orelli	Stem Your Expectations of Stem-Cell Discoveries Making "stem" cells out of skin cells isn't all it's cracked up to be. The recent discovery has a long way to go before it can catch up to the research currently being done with stem cells.
Scientific American March 2007 Alison Snyder	Sight for Sore Eyes Having generated a cell source and overcome the safety concerns associated with transplanting stem cells, researchers still face possibly their biggest challenge: showing that the transplanted photoreceptors wire up to other neurons that eventually connect to the optic nerves.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2008 Patrick Clinton	Salute to the Murines What can we say about modern medicine? The answer, of course, is that it's brilliant at curing the ailments of mice.
Chemistry World April 10, 2008 Sarah Houlton	Radiotherapy Side-Effects Suppressed A new drug being developed by scientists at Cleveland BioLabs (CBLI) in the US may hold the key to protecting healthy cells from the effects of radiotherapy during cancer treatment.
Chemistry World July 30, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Cell Transplant Hope for Diabetes Sufferers Iron-based 'magnetocapsules' of insulin-producing cells could help doctors use cell transplants to treat type I diabetes.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2004 Charly Travers	Are Stem Cells a Rule Breaker? Does the science offer real hope or just hype? Biotech investors take on enough risk in the normal course of drug development that they do not need to worry about whether or not the underlying technology even works.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Schoenbach et al.	Zap Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer. The list of effects that scientists have achieved using nanoseconds-long pulses is growing rapidly, though their actual use as a medical treatment is still years away.
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Lab-Grown Liver New cell culture system solves problem of growing liver cells.
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Scientific American December 12, 2005 Philip E. Ross	Grow Your Own Getting a diabetic pancreas to regrow its islets -- growth factors could restore beta cells lost in type 1 diabetes.
Chemistry World January 26, 2011 Anna Watson	Channelling deeper to target breast cancer US scientists have developed a model of the breast ductal system that could be used to discover abnormal cells or deliver drugs at locations further along the ducts than other techniques. The model fits on a slide, enabling on-chip experiments.
Chemistry World August 24, 2006 Jessica Ebert	Alzheimer's Researchers Tackle Waste Disposal The memory of mice with Alzheimer's-like symptoms is improved by inoculating the mice with an enzyme involved in protein degradation, report US researchers. The work could lead to new therapies for patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Chemistry World October 10, 2012 Elinor Hughes	Batteries not included Enzyme-based biofuel cells have been plugged into lobsters and they generated enough power to run a digital watch.
Chemistry World May 2006 Andrew West	Mission to Marzzz... With planned manned missions to Mars, ESA and NASA both recently announced that they are funding research into methods that would allow astronauts to spend months or even years in suspended animation.
Chemistry World August 2, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Hacking into chemical cell phone calls US researchers have made a nanodevice that can eavesdrop on a cell's mutterings, and they say it could be adapted to listen in on conversations between cells.
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Chemistry World December 18, 2012 Jennifer Newton	Technique to measure chemotherapy effectiveness A technique to measure how effective chemotherapy is by studying the physical changes that occur in human cells has been developed by US scientists.
Scientific American January 2009 Charles Q. Choi	Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Elise Lamar	Cells on the Move The biochemical signals that set cells on a journey are as diverse as the tissues they move through, but the engine is driven by constant remodeling of a protein network built from a box of cellular Legos.
Chemistry World April 20, 2012 Jennifer Newton	Nanocrystal probes mimic viruses to gain entry into cells Colloidal polymer vectors loaded with nanocrystal probes enter cells in the same way as a virus and can be used to track cells for therapies such as those based on stem cells
The Motley Fool December 17, 2007 Jack Uldrich	Innovations and Opportunities The latest scientific news is about fighting aging, heart disease, and cancer.
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Robert Tjian	Biomolecular Crowdsourcing A generation of web-savvy entrepreneurs has found a relatively cheap and effective approach to solving complex problems and soliciting ideas: toss out a challenge into a vibrant digital community and watch what happens.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Cassandra Willyard	A Faster Knockout With a virus, a needle, and an ultrasound machine, researchers have drastically cut the time it takes to disable a gene in mice.
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2010 Cassie Rodenberg	Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection About 77 organ transplants are performed each day in the U.S., and more than 101,000 people are on a wait list for body parts such as hearts, skin and veins, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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Chemistry World July 28, 2009 Michael Gross	DNA to direct and switch off chemo Researchers in the US have developed a new approach to cancer chemotherapy using short DNA strands to help target delivery of the drug directly to cancer cells, and 'call it off' should problems arise.
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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Fruit Fly Cells Don't All Know What Sex They Are HHMI scientists have now found that many cells in male and female fruit flies not only look the same, they are more identical at a molecular level than was previously thought.