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...figure can rival University President Lawrence H. Summers for inspiring the widest range of public opinion and heated press coverage in the last five months, it is MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins...
...could be said that his backtracking since the famous incident with the vomiting woman is a sign that his political liberalism is affecting his academic conservatism,” Mansfield says—in an apparent allusion to Nancy Hopkins, the MIT biologist who left Summers’ January speech because, she said, his comments left her physically ill. (Please see story, page...
...widow of renowned Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould has sued three doctors at Harvard-affiliated hospitals for allegedly failing to detect a tumor that led to his death...
...very excited about the possibility of being able to have large amounts of material--for instance, from juvenile diabetes patients--to do research on the complex genetic and nongenetic causes of the disease," says Anne McLaren, a developmental biologist at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Campaign Institute in Cambridge, England. "[That's] going to be the future of cloned stem cells rather than therapeutic cloning...
Scientists, naturally, won't be rushing for a visit. William Etges, an evolutionary biologist at the nearby University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, dismisses the museum's version of history as "utterly irrelevant to what we actually know and understand about our world." But the museum's president, G. Thomas Sharp, whose doctorate in the philosophy of religion and science was awarded by a Florida seminary, says the exhibits are intended to counter a lamentable shift in public education to what he calls "a very secular, pagan base," arguing that "the biblical explanation to earth science is very feasible and very...