European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 stars and stripes june 2007 doctors to try to separate twin girls pm conjoined twin Sisters Anastasia and Tatiana Lay on a Couch in their apartment in Dallas in Early doctors at University hospitals Rainbow babies childrens Hospital in Cleveland began the first in a series of High risk surgeries wednesday to separate the 3yearolds joined at the the girls were born in Italy of romanian without the twins risk dying in Early doctors experts question results of diabetes drug studies the associated press the maker of the controversial diabetes Pill Vandia pointed to Early results of its own study tues saying they offered reassuring evidence the drug Doest raise heart out Side experts called the results in conclusive at Best and a sign of greater risk at the study compares Vandia with two other diabetes pills in nearly people around the drug maker Glaxo Smith Kline pc released results of the first few years of a six year study showing similar rates of heart re lated deaths and hospitalizations among those on Vandia versus those on the other but some doctors said the re sults showed slightly More heart problems with Vandia a bad sign even though the difference was so Small that it could have occurred by Chance they also contend there Are problems with the Way the study was this which was de signed to show the Benefit of Rosill Tazone if any thing shows the said David chief of diabetes care at Massachusetts Gener Al who has no role in the Virginia tech building to reopen june 18 the building where a gunman killed More than 30 people and himself on the Vir Ginia tech Campus will be re opened for offices and Laborati but will never again be used for the University announced Norris Hall will open june 18 for the engineering science and mechanics and civil and Environ mental engineering they had been the primary occupants of the building on april when seun Hui Cho killed 32 Stu dents and faculty members on the Blacksburg Campus before killing the rooms where the shootings occurred will remain from the associated press study and has received speaker fees from Glaxo and other drug wrote an editorial accompanying which was published online by the new England journal of the journal rushed it out because a congressional panel was to hold a hearing wednesday on the drugs risks and the response by the Federal food and drug criticized for being too lax about safety the problem came to Light two weeks when the journal published pooled results of 42 studies suggesting that Vandia raised the risk of heart attacks by 43 percent and possibly hear related bypassing the ethical debate skin cells from mice used to mimic embryonic Stem cells by Malcolm Ritter the associated press new York in a big step toward a lon sought three teams of scientists say Treyve produced the equivalent of embryonic Stem at least in without taking the controversial step of destroying their procedure makes Ordinary skin cells behave like Stem if the same can be done with human cells a big procedure could Lead to break through medical treatments without the contentious ethical and political debates surrounding the use of embryonic Stem cells can give Rise to All types of so experts believe they might be used to Cre ate transplant therapies for people who Are Para lazed or have illnesses ranging from diabetes to Par Kin sons to Harvest human embryonic Stem human embryos have to be an action opposed by Many the new studies Are the latest to at tempt to avoid embryo scientists have Long hoped to find a Way to repro Gram Ordinary body cells to act like Stem avoid ing the use of embryos the new mouse studies seem to have accomplished i think its one of the most exciting things that has come out about embryonic Stem said Stem cell researcher Asa a Eliovich of Columbia University in new who didst participate in the its very convincing that its but he and others cautioned that it will take fur ther study to see whether this scientific Advance can be harnessed for new human we have a Long Way to said John Gearhart of great Auto rates Are apr with arcu youll experience a no hassle application process that will have you smelling the in no time negotiate your new Auto Price today with Confidence using focus convenient online or Telephone loan burst into Spring by applying for an Auto loan today 8004875500 stateside overseas Sam the Whitehead this chimeric mouse is in of reprogrammed fibroblasts that have contributed to All tissue and cell in a significant step toward a lon sought scientists say Treyve converted mouse skin cells into the apparent equivalent of embryonic Stem Johns Hopkins a Stem cell researcher who also want involved in the new in any it is crucial that scientists continue re search with Standard embryonic Stem said re searcher Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard Stem cell who led one of the three he and his colleagues present their work in the inaugural Issue of the journal cell Stem the first word in the journals name refers to its cell the other two teams reported their results wednesday on the web site of the journal Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute in Cam is the senior author of one and the work behind the other paper was led by Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in the new work builds on a landmark paper Yamanaka published last he found that by slip Ping four genes into mouse skin cells called Fibre he could make the altered cells behave much like embryonic Stem cells in lab Andrews Federal credit Union