Word: breakthroughs
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...maglev takes a load of hardware and a ton of power and is useless for small, simple kinds of engineering. The new breakthrough - achieved by a joint team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Harvard University and published in a paper in the journal Nature - provides an alternative...
...seek to restore some of the regional clout enjoyed by its Ottoman forebears. Since its election in 2002, the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) has renewed political and trade relations across the Middle East, promoting itself as a mediator in long-standing conflicts. It achieved a breakthrough in May by bringing together Syria and Israel for their first direct talks in eight years, and it played a role in resolving the dangerous presidential standoff in Lebanon earlier in 2008. (See images of Gaza's agony...
...breakthrough achieved by Siemionow and her team was a longtime goal in facial surgery. Partial face transplants had been successfully performed by teams in France in 2005 and 2007 and in China in 2006, all on patients who had been disfigured either by animal attacks or disease. But no one had ever attempted a procedure on the scale undertaken by the Cleveland team...
...while the study may be stating the obvious to dog owners, Morris at the University of Portsmouth says this particular breakthrough lends credibility to research on animal cognition. "The argument has always been that the reason why chimps can do really sophisticated stuff is because they're almost like people," he says. But "when you have other organisms doing these sophisticated things, it challenges our models...
...recent breakthrough in stem cell research by seven Harvard affiliates could revolutionize treatment for diseases such as leukemia, for which the only existing cure is bone marrow transplant...