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...Wisconsin group, whose announcement appears in the current Science, went even farther. Its stem cells can evidently survive indefinitely. The researchers have also coaxed them to take the next step and differentiate into neural, gut, muscle and bone cells. "It's an important first step," says developmental biologist James Thomson, who led the Wisconsin team. National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus pronounced the potential applications of the Wisconsin work "tremendous...
Leading Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson has joined a campaign to protect Southeastern forests from a new logging technique...
...have to love it before you are moved to save it," says Sylvia Earle, the marine biologist known as "Her Deepness" since the time in 1979, off the coast of Oahu, when she was cut loose from a submarine and walked freely on the ocean floor, 1,250 ft. beneath the water's surface. The object of her affection requires love of a special magnitude and magnanimity. One has to concede at the outset that the ocean is too vast, deep and secretive to be completely known. It is capable of casual murder and filled with structures that make Picasso...
...want you to meet a fish," Earle says to me. Without a submersible handy, we take the easy way and visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium, directed by marine biologist Julie Packard. Her Deepness takes to the place like a five-year-old. She leads me from exhibit to exhibit, dividing her attention between my education and anyone else staring at a fish. To a girl in pigtails eyeing a flounder she says, "See? He's looking at you too!" Earle is one of those dangerous people whose buoyant charm can make people do preposterous things. At a mere signal...
...press release, Allessandro Alessandrini, assistant biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a co-author of the study, says, "The exciting thing about this is not only that it deciphers an initial stage in the pathway of stroke, but also suggests that a pathway thought to be involved in cell proliferation may lead to damage early on in ischemia...