Simple recipe gives adult cells embryonic powers

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Researchers, through simple methods, have developed a chemical combination that enables adult mouse cells to behave like embryonic stem cells. The reprogrammed cells in mice, known as 'embryonic-stem-cell-like cells', express some of the key genes of the embryonic stem cells and perform their functions, thus raising hopes for use in research and medicine without facing the ethical issue of involving a human embryo.

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The ups and downs of ecstasy

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The drugs related to the treatment for anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders from the psychedelic underground to the psychiatric clinic are talked about. 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is one such drug that is being tested for, whether it can relieve anxiety and pain in end-stage cancer patients.

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RNA to the rescue?

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Molecular medicine's next big thing after RNA interference, a gene-silencing mechanism, is investigated. The rate of progress in the field of RNA research is said to be very fast.

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