Scientists take first steps to growing human organs in pigs
By MALCOLM RITTER Scientists have grown human cells inside pig embryos, a very early step toward the goal of growing livers and other human organs in animals to transplant into…
Cell biology
Japan’s Ohsumi wins Nobel for studies of cell ‘self-eating’
Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries related to the degrading and recycling of cellular components. The Karolinska Institute honored Ohsumi…
AMERICANS, GERMAN-AMERICAN WIN MEDICINE NOBEL
By KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING Images of James Rothman and Randy Schekman, of the US, and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof are projected on a screen, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday,…
SCIENTISTS TO SERVE LAB-MADE BURGER FROM COW CELLS
Mark Post, developer of the stem cell burger, poses before the first public tasting, in London, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. For hamburgers that cost more than $300,000 to produce, you…
ISRAELI PLANES STRIKE GAZA AFTER ROCKET FIRE
By IAN DEITCH Palestinians throw stones at Israeli soldiers after the death of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh in Israeli jail in the West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, April 2, 2013.…