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ICAAC-IDSA: Fungi Geneticist Warns of Sick Building Syndrome

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Wed, 10/29/2008 - 13:35

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- It was the smell of her Hurricane Katrina-damaged home that transformed fungi geneticist Joan Bennett, Ph.D., from a sick building syndrome skeptic into a believer.


 

Caution on stem cell therapy

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sat, 06/07/2008 - 23:00

(University of Utah Health Sciences) A single organ may contain more than one type of adult stem cell -- a discovery that complicates prospects for using the versatile cells to replace damaged tissue as a treatment for disease, according to a new study from the laboratory of geneticist Mario Capecchi, the University of Utah's Nobel Laureate.