University's human gene research halted

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 25, 2000 ;     128 words ...University's human gene research halted Associated Press Thursday, May 25, 2000 Philadelphia -- The University of Pennsylvania's gene therapy institute, under fire...teenager during an experiment last September, will no longer perform research on humans, the school said Wednesday. The Institute for ...

CHINA'S FIRST HUMAN GENE DATA-BASE BUILT

AsiaInfo Services;  January 13, 2000 ;     105 words ...AsiaInfo Services 01-13-2000 China's First Human Gene Data-base Built CHINA, January 13, AsiaPort -- China's first human gene data-base was built recently in Shanghai Borong Gene Development Co Ltd, marking that China's gene research had come to a new phase. Scientific and research ...

German President, Chancellor Disagree on Gene Research

Xinhua News Agency;  May 22, 2001 ;     600 words ......on whether there should be limits in gene research. President Johannes Rau called for...loose currently- strict criterion for gene research. While German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder...Acknowledging moral boundaries to gene research, Schroeder stressed that creating jobs...

Bull with human gene is euthanized

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 3, 2004 ;     139 words ...Bull with human gene is euthanized Associated Press Saturday...world's first farm animal carrying a human gene, was euthanized Friday because he was...where Herman spent his final years. A human gene was spliced into Herman's genetic code...

Firm's scientists add human gene to cloned sheep Called unpredictable,...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 25, 1997 ;     475 words ......a fetal sheep. The new lamb carries a human gene that was inserted when it was a single-cell...Though it sounds bizarre, combining a human gene with the sheep cell has nothing to do...individuals whose cells carried the added human gene. The gene is a biological blueprint for...

German Chancellor Stresses Benefits From Gene Research

Xinhua News Agency;  May 10, 2000 ;     280 words ......medical benefits brought about by gene research should not be ignored, local media...should be taboos and restrictions in gene research to secure that human dignity will...loose currently-strict criterion for gene research.

CLONED LAMB WAS GIVEN HUMAN GENE GENETIC GRAFT WILL PRODUCE PROTEINS FOR...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  July 25, 1997 ;     371 words ......too. But she has an added ingredient: a human gene. That gene will produce a human protein...The cloning technique involves adding a human gene to the nucleus, which contains the genetic...not yet certain that they also have the human gene. The next step in the research is to...

Human gene therapy: Genes without frontiers?

The American Biology Teacher;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Human gene therapy, the augmentation of a patient...there have been important advances in human gene therapy that may herald the start of a...Despite the potential to use the subject of human gene therapy as a teaching tool, a recent sampling...

HUMAN GENE CAN TURN NASTY MICE NICE.(News)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  September 15, 2005 ;     432 words ......A breakthrough experiment has used a human gene to turn vicious mice into very gentle...Neuroscience. But this is the first time (a human gene) is being used in a mouse to study the...millenniums ago. The team ordered the human gene by mail and then inserted it into a mouse...

Second Mouse Strain Is Patented; Human Gene Makes Animal Viral-Resistant

The Washington Post;  December 24, 1992 ;     307 words ......University for a mouse strain carrying a human gene that makes the animal resistant to viral...injecting into a fertilized mouse embryo a human gene that promotes the secretion of interferon...each of the animals' cells contained the human gene and that low levels of human ...

Shanghai Sets Up Plant Gene Research Center

Xinhua News Agency;  August 12, 2000 ;     174 words ...The Shanghai Plant Gene Research Center was set up in this east...Jiaotong University, the State Gene Research Center of the CAS and the Shanghai...filled a gap in Shanghai's plant gene research and is an important step in the...

CHINA CONTRIBUTING TO HUMAN GENE GROUP PLAN

AsiaInfo Services;  December 23, 1999 ;     67 words ......Services 12-23-1999 China Contributing to Human Gene Group Plan CHINA, December 23, AsiaPort...the sixth country participates in the human gene group plan, and the sole developing country...Japan has finished 15 percent of the human gene group sequence testing task allocated...

RESEARCHERS STUDY ETHICS LINKED TO GENE RESEARCH.(TRIAD/STATE)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  January 11, 2000 ;     104 words ......975,000 grant to investigate ethical issues surrounding gene research. Dr. Gail Henderson and lawyer Nancy King, both social medicine...develop ideas and beliefs about possible benefits of early gene research. People think of these studies as therapy, but they are not...

SETTLEMENT WILL ALLOW HUMAN GENE TRANSPLANT

The Boston Globe;  May 17, 1989 ;     275 words ......agreement reached yesterday clears the way for the first authorized human gene transplant and requires the National Institutes of Health to open future decision-making on human gene experiments to the public. The settlement came in a lawsuit filed...

Subcommittee okays human gene transfer.

Science News;  December 17, 1988 ;     586 words ...Subcommittee okays human gene transfer After presenting new and...key NIH subcommittee dealing with human gene therapy appears to signal the end...failure to win approval from the RAC's Human Gene Therapy subcommittee (SN: 10/8/88...