| July 14, 1999 | Human Gene Transferred to Tobacco Plant |
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"Plants
have been used in medical treatments throughout human history, but
researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory are taking a new approach to plants as pharmaceutical
components. They are genetically modifying plants to produce human
blood proteins and tissue growth agents."| Soc |
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| June 17, 1999 | Human Embryo Cloned |
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"American
scientists have cloned the first human embryos, the London Daily
Mail reported on Thursday. Using methods similar to those which
produce Dolly the cloned sheep at Edinburgh's Roslin Institute,
they produced a male embryo comprising nearly 400 cells, according
to the British tabloid."
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| June 10, 1999 | Scientists Code Words into DNA |
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"Researchers
at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York have combined
DNA technology with encryption ...In a report in the science journal
Nature on Wednesday, researchers described how they used a three-letter
code for the English alphabet based on DNA and encoded an encryption
key into human DNA."
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| June 9, 1999 | Tarnkappe aus Zucker | |
"Mit einer besonders modifizierten Schicht aus Zucker schützen sich Tumorzellen vor der Entdeckung und Zerstörung durch das körpereigene Immunsystem. Wissenschaftlern ist nun die Entschlüsselung der Gen-Sequenz eines für die Zuckerproduktion wichtigen Enzyms gelungen. Die bahnbrechende Entdeckung könnte neue Wege bei der Behandlung von Krebserkrankungen eröffnen. ". mehr darüber
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