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Of the 17 patients with advanced skin cancer who underwent gene therapy, the treatment worked only on Mr Origer and "Thomas M", aged 39, clearing the disease from liver, lymph node and lung.

Writing in the scientific journal Nature, ACT researchers described a way to make stem cells from single cells that had been removed from embryos. Because fertility doctors routinely remove single cells from embryos for genetic testing and then successfully implant them, the technique could in theory be used to create stem cells without destroying human embryos.

Priklopil would sometimes hand her newspaper cuttings about the kidnapping, which had prompted an international police hunt. "Look, they are still writing about us," he would say. He told her it was as if "we are alone together in a boat" and said: "We belong together for ever."

Mr Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray's barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.

Footage of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin being fatally attacked by a stingray on the Great Barrier Reef has been handed to Queensland police as fans worldwide come to grips with the "freak" death.

"In Europe we're getting worried about three or four cases of rare disease associated with the Baltic Ocean - but in Africa we're talking about potentially many millions of cases of malaria" -- Professor Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia

Children who grow up with alcoholic parents bear emotional, behavioural and mental scars, experts say. [...] The report found 55% of domestic violence occurs in alcoholic homes.