Huntington's hope from lab sheep
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A NZ scientist is honoured for helping to develop sheep that can be used to study Huntington's disease.
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Scientists who created Dolly the sheep,  the world's first cloned mammal, applied for a license Tuesday  to clone human embryos to obtain stem cells for research into  ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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A new &#36;58 million lab at Michigan State University will be a key to detecting diseases that start in animals but can be transmitted to people.
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University of Pennsylvania researchers have figured out how to produce a continuous supply of sperm stem cells from mice, a technique that could one day be used to save endangered species or treat infertility in men.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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A new federally funded project should help scientists learn how some animals regenerate body parts so well. They hope to apply the lessons to humans. By the Associated Press.
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A technique would let scientists use a patientâs skin cell to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells that might be transplantable.
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Scientists say they might be able to slow progress of "mad cow disease" by genetically revamping the brain.
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Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, makes her debut. Compiled by Tony Long.
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Parkinson's researchers inject human stem cells into primates for the first time, with promising results.
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Gene therapy is used to alleviate symptoms of a condition which is a cause of inherited learning difficulties.
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NEW YORK  - By transferring a gene that  regulates fundamental cell development into the inner ear of  deafened guinea pigs, researchers have regenerated so-called  hair cells and partially restored the animals' hearing
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Science & environment: The mysterious case of St Kilda's vanishing black sheep has been solved by geneticists
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Research into using stem cells to repair damaged nerves just got a big boost, with scientists pinpointing a protein key to controlling binocular vision -- visual depth perception -- in mammals.
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If a technique used in mice can be adapted to human cells, it would let scientists use a patientâs skin cells to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells.
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Biological heart pacemakers made from human embryo cells have been successfully tested in pigs, raising the possibility that tissue transplants could in future replace electronic pacemakers.
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Science & environment: Hopes boosted by experiments showing that human embryonic stem cells could be turned into a variety of brain cells