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World first: Japanese scientists create transgenic monkeys

In a controversial achievement, Japanese scientists announced on Wednesday they had created the world's first transgenic primates, breeding monkeys with a gene that made the animals' skin glow a fluorescent ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 8

'Surrogates' aid design of complex parts and controlling video games

Researchers have defined a new class of software, calling it "surrogate interaction," which enables designers and video gamers to more easily change features of complex objects like automotive drawings or ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

SKorean experts claim to have cloned glowing dogs

(AP) -- South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develop cures for human diseases. The four dogs, all named "Ruppy" - a combination ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Surrogate decision makers wish to retain authority in difficult decision

The decision to stop life-support for incapacitated and critically ill patients is, for surrogate decision makers, often fraught with moral and ethical uncertainty, and long-term emotional consequences. But as difficult as ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cuckoo's copying an evolutionary curiosity

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of brood parasitism in birds has shown that the nest-poaching New Zealand shining cuckoo's ability to mimic its grey warbler host is an evolutionary curiosity.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Vitamin D status not predicted by surrogate markers, researchers find

Vitamin supplements, diet, geographic location, demographic information or lifestyle, independently or in combination, cannot accurately predict vitamin D concentrations in blood, researchers at the University at Buffalo ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Intrafamilial medically assisted reproduction

The ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law acknowledges the benefits that IMAR may bring to those choosing this approach and concludes that certain forms of IMAR are morally acceptable under certain conditions. The group advises ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Numerous factors weighed when patients cannot make their own decisions

Living wills and surrogate decision makers account for only a portion of the many factors weighed by physicians when making medical decisions for hospitalized patients lacking the capability to make their ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How do doctors really feel about surrogate decision making?

A growing number of hospitalized adults are incapable of making their own health decisions, but little research has explored how doctors feel about making medical decisions with a patient's surrogate decision ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most support Alzheimer's research based on family consent

By the time they have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, many patients' decision-making ability is so impaired that they cannot give informed consent to participate in research studies.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0