Old stem cells are go
It’s official: the most popular line of human embryonic stem cells qualifies for US federal funding. When President Barack Obama ended restrictions limiting funding of ESC research to around 20 lines, it wasn’t clear whether these old lines would meet new “informed consent” requirements. Now the most popular of the older lines, plus some others, have been found to make the grade.
Too sleepy to over-drink
A gene variant in about 10 per cent of people of African descent may make them too sleepy to get drunk. So say researchers who found that African Americans…
