US researchers have identified in living plants the set of proteins that help them withstand water stress.

How should clinics that treat patients with injections of their own stem cells be regulated? That question is about to test the jurisdiction of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Herald Sun: 23 August 2010
Australian Financial Review 23 August 2010
Reference
PLoS One
A Combined Epigenetic and Non-Genetic Approach for Reprogramming Human Somatic Cells,
Jinnuo Han, Perminder S. Sachdev, Kuldip S. Sidhu*
Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
UNSW Stem Cell Lab

Attaching an ingredient in scorpion venom to nanoparticles of iron oxide can help therapeutic genes to reach more brain cancer cells than existing approaches.

Copied from nature, a nanoscale coating for surgical equipment, hospital walls, and other surfaces can safely eradicate the Staphylococcus bacteria responsible for antibiotic resistant infections.

US researchers have developed a way to predict how nanoparticles will interact with biological systems — including the human body.

A discussion with Professor Keith Campbell, School of Biosciences, Division of Animal Physiology, University of Nottingham

Researchers have found that carbon nanotubes injected into male mice cause damage to the testes, but the harm is reversible and does not affect fertility.

Xenotransplantation specialists Living Cell Technologies (LCT) have announced promising results from a Phase II clinical trial of its cell implant in diabetes patients in New Zealand.

A genetically modified (GM) crop has been found thriving in the wild for the first time in the United States.