1. Advances in Science/Scientific Discoveries 

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02.27.2001 BBC News Human ovaries 'grown in mice' Frozen human ovarian tissue - a potential fertility lifeline for hundreds of UK women - has been successfully thawed and revived in mice by a team of scientists from Melbourne, Australia. Dr Debra Gook led the team at the city's  Royal Women's Hospital. Researchers from other hospitals comment favourably on the implcications of this research.
01.2001 Nature Biotech Biotech weighs up the options of obesity A detailed examination of what biotech can offer in the struggle against obesity. The article includes a lengthy comparative history of obesity in the U.S., Middle East and Asia and elsewhere. In addition, there is a broad survey of pharmacological therapies designed to combat obesity and discussion of the hormones and receptors linked to obesity.
01.2001 Nature Biotech Got milk? Transgenic mice that secrete in their own milk a potent antibacterial protein presents a potential biotech solution to Mastitis, a kind of infection of mammary tissue, that costs the US dairy industry billions annually, and extracts an incalculable cost in animal suffering.
01.03.2001 BBC News Diabetes gene identified Researchers at the Free University of Brussels have identified one of the genes involved in the development of adult-onset, or type 2 diabetes,  which they have called SHIP2. 32. Genome Project and Genomics
07.18.2000 New York Times Agriculture Takes Its Turn in the Genome Spotlight In a scientific first, and a coup for science in Brazil, a team of more than 200 researchers there has for the first time deciphered the complete DNA sequence of an organism that causes a plant disease. Scientists said xylella's genome has already begun teaching biologists lessons about how pathogens evolve and about the destruction they cause. By revealing exactly which proteins this bacterium enlists to build itself and live its life, the complete sequence has also begun pointing the way toward methods for curbing this particular strain of the bacterium that attacks orange trees.  The report contains surprises, including the presence of genes thought to be peculiar to animal pathogens and a complete lack of some genes thought to be essential to plant disease organisms. 32. Genome Project and Genomics
07.04.2000 New York Times Analyzing Proteins With X-Rays, Crystals and Some Luck Protein shapes are usually determined by X-ray crystallography, a process that in some ways resembles a CAT scan. An X-ray is taken from multiple angles and a computer uses that data to calculate a three-dimensional image. However, the process has several steps and each one could fail.
06.27.2000 Globe and Mail Human eggs grow in mice muscle tissue London -- Canadian scientists have transplanted human ovarian tissue into the muscles of mice to grow human eggs in a technique they say could one day be used to retain the fertility of cancer patients. Researchers from the Samuel Luenfield Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto told the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) conference in Bologna, Italy that it was the first time tissue from the human ovarian cortex has been grafted and yielded eggs.
06.20.2000 New York Times New Alchemy: Bone and Cartilage From a Snippet of Skin Taking a less traveled path in the quest to replace damaged organs with parts grown in the laboratory, a professor at the University of California at San Francisco reports that he has changed human skin and gum cells into bone and cartilage.