Thursday, 24 May, 2012

Can embryonic stem cells provide a cure for Parkinson’s and other diseases? Perhaps, but plenty of legal barriers make research difficult. Meet the do-it-all stem cell.

Doctors are learning to persuade the body to grow its own spare parts. Is there hope for the retina, heart or pancreas?

The science of Halloween: bats, brains and cemetaries. Mourn the bats. Earn some interest at the brain bank. Prowl the boneyard!

Angiogenesis factors could control cancer, maybe. How do cancers create their own blood supply?

Scientists reveal their most guarded secrets. Eat less. Live longer. Eat less and live healthier. Starve tumors and keep those free radicals in line.

Is more fat the answer to too fat? That’s one way to describe the intriguing experiments on conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a compound found in many animal fats.

A researcher from Scotland grew a healthy adult sheep named Dolly from a cell of an adult sheep. What is cloning, and how much of it should we tolerate?

What is cardiac bypass surgery and how is it done? Want to watch from the head of the operating table?

Repairing damage to spinal cords. What are the obstacles? What are the hopes?

What is the future — and hazard — of transplanting organs from animals to humans?