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...answer is a resounding yes, as evidenced by two groundbreaking papers published on Tuesday. In the journal Cell, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University reports success in turning back the clock on cheek cells from a middle-aged woman, while James Thomson of University of Wisconsin, the first to isolate human embryonic stem cells, achieved the same feat with foreskin cells from a newborn baby. The achievements completely reset the boundaries of the stem cell debate, because both groups generated cells that looked and acted like embryonic stem cells, but without the need for eggs, embryos or ethical quandaries about where...
...coaxed directly from properly manipulated cells? At least for the time being, says Dr. Douglas Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, embryonic stem cell research should continue, since it's not clear yet how robust and safe stem cell therapies from other methods might be. "My answer to that question comes from a different perspective," he says. "Not from a scientific or political one, but from a patient perspective. A patient doesn't care how we got there. They're suffering from a disease and want to get the therapies as fast as they can. Until this...
What is the “little nameless object” that the Newsome family manufactures in the fictional town of Woollett, Mass.? Joshua L. Glenn, who writes for The Boston Globe, says the answer is toothpicks...
...Clinton in the last debate, was rehashed. But what should have been a jumping point for the bigger problem of illegal immigration turned into a political farce. After moderator Wolf Blitzer informed Obama that a “yes” or “no” answer would suffice in indicating his support for giving licenses to undocumented immigrants, Blitzer suggested going down the line and getting a “yes” or “no” response from everyone. Even as he posed the question to the first candidate in line?...
...event in the packed town hall of New London, New Hampshire on Sunday, he explained he would be brief because he'd rather hear what voters have to say, "because that's the point of a town hall, not for me to stand up and talk and maybe answer a few planted questions...