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Engineering by Scientists on Embryo Stirs Criticism
New York Times, United States -
But the researchers, at Cornell University, say they used an abnormal embryo that could never have turned into a baby. ?This particular piece of work was ...
Genetically modified human embryo stirs controversy Xinhua
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Mirror.co.uk
The First Genetically Modified Human Embryo: Advance or Abomination?
Wired News -
By Brandon Keim May 12, 2008 | 10:58:22 AMCategories: Bioethics, Biotechnology, Reproduction Led by Nikica Zaninovic, researchers at Cornell University ...
Scientists create first genetically modified human embryo Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release)
Scientist team creates first GM human embryo Times Online
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First Genetically Modified Human Embryo Under Review
Slashdot -
Wired is reporting that Cornell University researchers genetically modified a human embryo in 2007, but have only recently been gaining publicity as their ...
Genetic sleuths unmask secrets of big tomatoes
Tehran Times, Iran -
""The cherry tomato would be considered very large compared to what is found in the wild,"" said plant geneticist Steven Tanksley of Cornell University in ...

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Who's happier -- older or younger?
CNN -
Previous research also has shown that mid-life tends to be the most stressful time, said Cornell University sociologist Elaine Wethington. ...
Saving consumers from ... ahem ... themselves
Globe and Mail, Canada - May 11, 2008
Brian Wansink, author and professor at Cornell University, found that two groups given different-sized buckets of stale popcorn in a movie responded by ...
Admissions Control
Inside Higher Ed, DC -
... down on the basis that it preempted existing federal law on immigration, said Stephen Yale-Loehr, who teaches immigration law at Cornell University. ...
Sandefur makes pitch to become next chancellor
UW Badger Herald, WI -
... faculty by emphasizing the environment, research support and programs UW offers. Cornell University Provost Biddy Martin will visit campus tomorrow, ...
Qatar Sees Development Program Bear Fruit
St.Petersburg Times.ru, Russia - May 11, 2008
At the moment six universities operate campuses in Qatar Education City ? Weill Cornell Medical College, Carnegie Mellon University, Texas A&M University, ...

Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
A Library Addition at U. of Chicago Keeps Books Close
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) -
... underground libraries at space-crunched research universities, such as Cornell University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Minnesota. ...
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[BOOK] Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of" sex"
J Butler - 1993 - books.google.com
... As a senior fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University in the ...
I thank Jonathan Culler for supporting my research in various ways, including ...

[BOOK] Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies
K Bronfenbrenner - 1998 - books.google.com
... and Amy Foerster (Cornell); Michael Eisenscher (University of Massachusetts, Boston);
Iain Gold and Helen Jorgensen (AFL-CIO research assistants); John Logan ...

[PS] ZEUS Collaboration -
S Chekanov, M Derrick, D Krakauer, JH Loizides, S … - Eur. Phys. J. C, 2002 - giroz.desy.de
... Washington DC/USA 5 now at Cornell University, Ithaca/NY ... Italy 12 now at Dongshin
University, Naju, Korea ... Polish State Committee for Scientic Research, grant no ...

[BOOK] Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach -
JR Krebs, NB Davies - 1997 - books.google.com
... Seeley G Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY ... Department of Biology, Concordia
University, 1455 ouest ... of Terrestrial Ecology, Furzebrook Research Station. ...

[BOOK] Transforming Europe: Europeanization and Domestic Change -
MG Cowles, JA Caporaso, T Risse-Kappen - 2001 - books.google.com
... conceptual framework also owes quite a bit to Tanja B?rzel's research. ... we benefitted
from the anonymous reviews commissioned by Cornell University Press and ...

Storing and querying ordered XML using a relational database system -
I Tatarinov, SD Viglas, K Beyer, J … - Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference …, 2002 - portal.acm.org
... Relational Database System Igor Tatarinov* University of Washington Kevin Beyer
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram* IBM Almaden Cornell University Research Center ...

[BOOK] Principles of Polymer Chemistry -
PJ Flory - 1953 - books.google.com
... George Fisher Baker Non- resident Lectureship in Chemistry at Cornell University
during the ... Out of the vast research effort carried on by many investigators ...

[BOOK] Adjustment with a Human Face
GA Cornia, Y Suzuki, R Jolly, F Stewart - 1988 - books.google.com
... MARK S. COHEN is a graduate student at the Department ofAgricultural Economics at
Cornell University and has served as a research support specialist for the ...

[BOOK] Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change: An Empirical Analysis
AE Bergin, SL Garfield - 1971 - John Wiley & Sons

[CITATION] Muon g-2 Collaboration
HN Brown? - Phys. Rev. Lett, 2001

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Implanting Embryonic Cardiac Cells Prevents Arrhythmias

When researchers at Cornell, the University of Bonn and the University of Pittsburgh transplanted living embryonic heart cells into cardiac tissue of mice that had suffered heart attacks, the mice became resistant to cardiac arrhythmias, thereby avoiding one of the most dangerous and fatal consequences of heart attacks.

The discovery, reported in this week's issue of Nature, has profound implications for using cell-transplant therapies to restore damaged heart tissue.

The researchers, including Michael Kotlikoff, the Austin O. Hooey Dean of Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, one of the paper's senior authors, discovered that a protein called connexin43, expressed by the transplanted embryonic heart cells, improved electrical connections to other heart cells. The researchers showed that the improved connections helped activate the transplanted cells deep within the damaged section of the heart tissue. The technique reversed the risk of developing ventricular arrhythmias after a heart attack, the number one cause of sudden death in the Western world.

In the past, scientists have transplanted a variety of cell types into failing hearts with modest improvement of function, although transplanting skeletal muscle cells made things worse and led to more arrhythmias. Surprisingly, when co-author Bernd Fleischmann at the University of Bonn and colleagues transplanted embryonic cardiac cells, the hearts' electrical stability and function returned to normal.

Scientists recognize the untapped potential of using cell-based therapies to counter many debilitating diseases, but they have not had tools to assess the function of the cells once transferred. In Kotlikoff's laboratory, the researchers determined that the transplanted embryonic cells were making electrical connections with normal heart cells. Using genetically modified heart cells that express a fluorescent sensor, they established that transplanted heart cells were activated during normal heart contractions.

"For the first time we were able to see how cells used in therapy are working with other cells in a complex organ within a living animal, establishing the mechanism of the therapeutic effect," Kotlikoff said.

Professor Guy Salama at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine was also able to map voltage signals across the surface of the hearts, establishing that the implanted cells improve conduction of electrical signals within the damaged heart tissue.

While doctors could never use cells from a human embryonic heart for transplantation, researchers at the University of Bonn engineered skeletal muscle to express connexin43 and achieved the same restorative results as they did with the embryonic heart cells.

"These results have important implications for therapy, although they must be verified in the context of naturally occurring heart damage," Kotlikoff said. "One can envision using a patient's own cells by deriving heart cells from stem cells to improve heart function and decrease arrhythmia risk."

The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany, and the European Commission, Bonn Forschung.
 
 
 
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