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BASIC RESEARCH: Don't Sell Them to the Tooth Fairy.
May 1, 2003... Remember those teeth that came out with such trauma when you were a child, and your mama told you to put them under the pillow, and the next morning there was a dollar where your tooth had been? Well, the tooth fairy was ripping you off! Scientists from the National Institute of Dental and...

Stem Cell Maintenance Protein Wnt Isolated.
May 1, 2003... Scientists have finally isolated the first member of a recalcitrant group of proteins called the Wnts- two decades after their discovery. These proteins were suspected to have a role in keeping stem cells in their youthful, undifferentiated state-a suspicion that has proven correct, according...

Mouse Model of Lou Gehrig's Disease.
May 1, 2003... Ingenium Pharmaceuticals AG (Fraunhoferstrasse 13, 82152 Martinsried; Tel: +49 89 8565-2300, Fax +49 89 8565-2305; Website: www.ingenium-ag.com) and a coalition of international research organizations have reported in Science results concerning the genetic and molecular basis for motor neuron...

EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS: Parthenogenesis Yields Primate Stem Cells.
May 1, 2003... Primate embryos derived parthenogenetically can give rise to embryonic stem cells, according to a study by Jose Cibelli from Advanced Cell Technology (One Innovation Dr., Worcester, MA 01650; Tel: 508/756-1212, Fax: 508/756-0931; Website: www.advancedcell.com) (Cibelli has since moved to...

Making an Egg In Vitro.
May 1, 2003... As reported in New Scientist, embryonic stem cells have been turned into eggs. The feat was achieved with embryonic stem (ES) cells from mice, but the same technique should work in humans. The work was published May 1 in Science online by Hans Schler and his colleagues from the University of...