Perth, Oct 21: A New Zealand biotech firm has been given the go-ahead to inject pig cells into humans as part of a trial to tackle diabetes.
New Zealand Health Minister David Cunliffe has given green light to the ASX-listed Living Cell Technologies to conduct the two-year controversial trial.
"It is extremely exciting for lots of people, especially the diabetics, because it gives them new hope," Perth Now quoted company founder David Collinson, as saying.
He said the 2 million dollars would kick off at Auckland''s Middlemore Hospital with eight patients in Feb 2009.
Collinson hopes that by 2010, drugs used in the trial would be made available in some parts of the world.
Perth, August 25 : Muslims and Catholics have been enraged by explicit sex-education lessons in Western Australia schools, where girls as young as 14 are being made to roll condoms on to plastic penises.
Prominent WA Muslim imam Abdul Jalil Ahmad branded the lessons "pornography in the classroom''''.
Peter Rosengren, the Editor of the Catholic Church''s The Record newspaper, said that such a way of imparting sex education to school students was indicative of society''s over-sexualisation of children.
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Perth, August 25 : Muslims and Catholics have been enraged by explicit sex-education lessons in Western Australia schools, where girls as young as 14 are being made to roll condoms on to plastic penises.
Perth, May 11 : A courageous mum risked her life to save a man savaged by a 4m shark just
