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...Would you support federal funding of stem cell research using existing stem cell lines? -Simon Voysey from Wellington...
...Like the three-year-old Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), the department will be focusing in large part on stem-cell biology. But the new department will have a somewhat different purview, including the instruction of undergraduates...
...Stem cell scientist Douglas A. Melton will represent FAS as the department’s other co-chair. The department’s initial 13 to 16 faculty members—who have yet to be named—will retain ties to their current faculties, but its headquarters will be stationed across the river in the Allston campus’ flagship science complex. The department will also conduct a search for three junior faculty members and plans to eventually expand still further...
...Deval L. Patrick ’78 announced last Friday that he will push to reverse restrictions on stem cell research that were imposed by his predecessor, Mitt Romney. The restrictions—which were drafted by Romney’s aides and adopted last August by the state’s Public Health Council—limited the stem cell lines that Massachusetts researchers were allowed to use.Romney’s critics have argued that the restrictions run counter to the intent of a law passed in 2005 by the state legislature that was intended to promote stem...
...animals is very limited: only a few dated studies have been done on dogs and just one on cats, which showed limited poisonous effects and no kidney damage. And melamine has a very low level of toxicity to rodents. "It looks like it [the melamine] is causing direct cell death in the kidneys and this is not something we would have expected to happen," says Goldstein. "I don't think it's pure melamine. Maybe there is some kind of reaction with the metabolism of melamine that would cause this...