| Gene therapy advances |
| 05 April 1999 - by BioNews |
| Developments in the use of gene therapy to treat muscular dystrophy and haemophilia have been reported in the past week. A team of scientists at the Salk Institute in California announced in the American journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that a form of haemophilia in mice had...[Read More] |
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| IVF mix-up mother will give back baby |
| 05 April 1999 - by BioNews |
| A mother who gave birth to another woman's child after a mix-up at a New York fertility clinic has decided to hand the baby back to its biological parents. IVF mother Donna Fasano, 37, gave birth three months ago to twin boys - one white and one black - after her fertility...[Read More] |
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| Spring lambs for Dolly |
| 05 April 1999 - by BioNews |
| Dolly the cloned sheep has given birth to three lambs at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh. Dolly's first pregnancy resulted in just one lamb born in April last year. All the lambs were conceived naturally and all have the same father, a Welsh mountain ram called David. Dr Harry Griffin...[Read More] |
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| Abortion research shows widespread ignorance |
| 05 April 1999 - by BioNews |
| A report published last Monday shows that many people are unaware of medical advances that can treat or prevent inherited genetic diseases. Action Research, the medical charity that commissioned the Mori research, said that as a result, more than half of the surveyed group said they would avoid having children...[Read More] |
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| Cell therapy for leukaemia within three years? |
| 05 April 1999 - by BioNews |
| At a conference in London last week, Dr Anne McLaren of the Wellcome CRC Institute in Cambridge (UK) said that the first application of cloning techniques in cell therapy was likely to be for bone marrow grafts for children suffering from leukaemia. She predicted that this might be possible in...[Read More] |
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| Biotech news |
| 05 April 1999 - by BioNews |
| Glaxo Wellcome appears to have abandoned plans to merge with the US drugs giant Bristol Myers Squibb. Sources claim that informal meetings had taken place, but merger negotiations broke down at the end of last year and are unlikely to be resumed. However, it is thought that Glaxo is looking...[Read More] |
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| Fertility treatment may cause molecular changes |
| 05 April 1999 - by BioNews |
| An increasingly popular fertility treatment used in cases of male infertility could lead to a slight increase in genetic abnormalities in resulting offspring. It may also affect the cellular machinery inside sperm cells during fertilisation, according to a study of the technique in animals. However, experts say the results are...[Read More] |
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| Wellcome vs Cambridgeshire planning authorities |
| 05 April 1999 - by BioNews |
| The Wellcome Trust is locked in an increasingly bitter struggle with the local planning authority over its proposal to extend its Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. Last week's public enquiry merely confirmed the deadlock, with the local authority still opposed to the extension. Wellcome wants to provide space for small...[Read More] |
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| Abortion a live issue in forthcoming US elections |
| 05 April 1999 - by BioNews |
| George W Bush's campaign to win the Republican nomination for next year's presidential elections has suffered a set-back after he received criticism from pro-life republicans for not having a tough enough stance on abortion. Although he is more popular than his nine rivals for the nomination, opposition from pro-lifers, who...[Read More] |
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