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New EU-funded Consortium to Develop Fully Personalized Cancer Vaccines

Multinational clinical trial treating glioblastoma patients with fully personalized therapeutic vaccines planned to start in 2014.
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CropWorld Global 2013 Launches ‘Planting the Seeds of Innovation’ Campaign

Global food industry leaders say continual innovation is urgently needed to reduce pressures on price and food supply.
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Scientists Discern Signatures of Old Versus Young Stem Cells

A chemical code scrawled on histones determines which genes in that cell are turned on and which are turned off.
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Resistance Gene Found Against Ug99 Wheat Stem Rust Pathogen

The world's food supply got a little more plentiful thanks to a scientific breakthrough.
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First South American Plant for Purifying Soils Contaminated with Zinc and Cadmium

Gomphrena claussenii easily grows on contaminated soil near zinc mines and takes up large amounts of heavy metals.
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Gene Variants Predict Response to Breast Cancer Drugs

Scientists found genetic variations that could be used to identify women who are most likely to benefit from breast cancer prevention drug.
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Genome Institute of Singapore Scientists Discover Molecular Communication Network in Human Stem Cells

Scientists have discovered a molecular network in human embryonic stem cells that integrates cell communication signals to keep the cell in its stem cell state.
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Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease Advances Toward Clinical Trials

Gene therapy technique is scheduled to begin clinical trials by early 2014.
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Physicists Tease out Twisted Torques of DNA

Like an impossibly twisted telephone cord, DNA, the molecule that encodes genetic information, also often finds itself twisted into coils.
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Agriculture and Climate Change Meet at New Institute

Cornell introduces new resource to assist farmers in making decisions based on climate change.
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