A Visionary Approach Using Stem Cells to Repair Eye Damage
New eye research center in India aims to fix visual impairments with the help of stem cells A new vision research center opening in India today becomes the latest in a handful of facilities dedicated to exploring the potential of adult eye stem cells to repair vision damage. The Champalimaud Center for Translation Eye Research (C-TRACER), part of the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India, wi
Scan Uncovers Thousands of Copycat Scientific Articles
Database search turns up research papers suspiciously similar to prior publications, prompting investigations A new computerized scan of the biomedical research literature has turned up tens of thousands of articles in which entire passages appear to have been lifted from other papers. Based on the study, researchers estimate that there may be as many as 200,000 duplicates among some 17 million pa
1,000 Genomes Project: Expanding the Map of Human Genetics
Researchers hope the effort will speed up the discovery of many diseases's genetic roots The number of sequenced human genomes will soon swell to more than 1,000 as part of a new international research consortium's effort to trace the potential genetic origins of disease. But first the mother, father and adult child of a European-ancestry family from Utah and a Yoruba-ancestry family from Nigeria
Male Semen Makes HIV More Potent
Component peptide ferries virus into mucosal cells, ratcheting up infectivity as much as 100,000 times More than 80 percent of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are transmitted via sexual intercourse. And researchers may have discovered at least one reason why. According to a new study published in Cell, a component of human semen may facilitate the spread of the virus by targeting imm
Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does
Midwestern farms prove switchgrass could be the right crop for producing ethanol to replace gasoline Farmers in Nebraska and the Dakotas brought the U.S. closer to becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first time with switchgrass—a native North American perennial grass (Panicum virgatum) that often grows on the borders of cropland naturally—and proving that it can delive
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