Hey, my dog's dating!
Byline: SUMANTHA RATHORE Dating meets, socialising events, the pampered poodles have them all in the city. PT reports. It's time for some real puppy love. Actually , it is time for the puppies to fall in love and moon over their loved ones. With dog...

Amicus Therapeutics Commences Phase 1 Clinical Trials for AT2220 for Pompe Disease.
CRANBURY, N.J., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Amicus Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing small molecule, orally-administered pharmacological chaperones for the treatment of human genetic diseases, today announced that it has commenced Phase 1 clinical trials for AT2220 for the treatment of Pompe disease, following acceptance of an investigational new drug...

Transplanted Cells May Arrest Genetic Diseases.
Using stem cells grown in the laboratory, a team of scientists from the University of Bonn (Germany) Medical Center, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have successfully transplanted those cells into the nervous systems of ailing rats and arrested the course of...

Autonomy, full information, and genetic ignorance in reproductive medicine.
The requirement of full information for autonomous decision-making has been a common topic for bioethics. In the past, it has been central to models of informed consent, competency and decisional capacity, and to assessments of appropriate treatment itself. In each of these areas, the central issue has revolved around...

An ounce of prevention: early detection of certain diseases in infants can save lives and prevent suffering.
Like most parents, Jill Kelly and her husband, Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Kelly were thrilled when their infant son Hunter came home from the hospital. Along with the new arrival came sleepless nights, but the Kellys were pros, with two girls under their belt. When Hunter began...

A doctor's best friend.
The earliest ancestors of golden retrievers were chosen for their yellow coat end patient personality, but these desired traits came with an unfortunate side effect: a genetic predisposition to cancer, which ends up claiming the life of up to 63 percent of these dogs, according to one study. Golden...

Genetics, family systems, and multicultural influences.
With groundbreaking advances in genomic research, the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of most health and mental health disorders will increasingly be understood as having a genetic component. This article provides an overview of the family systems genetic illness (FSGI) model to address the psychosocial challenges of genomic conditions for...

Will we ever clone a caveman?
Just a year ago, when Svante Paabo, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, announced he was going to reconstruct the Neanderthal genome, the project seemed unlikely to succeed. Despite sifting aggressively through Neanderthal fossils, scientists had managed to unearth only bits of mitochondrial DNA, secondary genetic...

French Agency for Industrial Innovation Grants EUR 25 Million to Transgene.
STRASBOURG, France, November 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Transgene S.A. (Eurolist Paris: FR0005175080) announces today that it has been granted EUR 25 million by the French Agency for Industrial Innovation (Agence Francaise de l'Innovation Industrielle - AII) for funding Transgene's participation in the ADNA ("Advanced Diagnostics and New therapeutic Approaches") project....

ThermoGenesis Applauds U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Release of $12 Million in Federal Funds to Qualified US Cord Blood Stem Cell Banks.
Goal of National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Network is Collection of 150,000 Cord Blood Stem Cell Units for All Patients in Need RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. today acknowledged that under the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, the U.S....