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PARIS (AFP) - France on Friday rejected a report by the European Union's food safety watchdog that said a controversial strain of genetically-modified corn was safe.
WASHINGTON - With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is so far more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time, researchers have identified a single "master" stem cell in humans that is capable of differentiating into all three major cell types that make up the human heart.
CHICAGO - An 84-year-old University of Chicago researcher has won a half-million-dollar genetics prize for her pioneering work in showing that cancer is a genetic disease.
July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Biogen Idec Inc., the world’s largest maker of drugs for multiple sclerosis, will pay as much as $510 million for rights to market Acorda Therapeutics Inc.’s experimental MS pill outside the U.S.
BOSTON (Reuters) - A 10th patient taking Biogen Idec Inc's Tysabri has developed a potentially deadly brain infection since the multiple sclerosis drug was reintroduced to the market in July 2006, sending the company's shares down nearly 7 percent.
What if the food we ate fought allergies instead of causing them? A new form of rice can, researchers announced this week. But is it safe?
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