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...human clinical trials using stem cells. Last week ReNeuron, a Surrey-based biopharmaceutical company, announced that it had licensed a gene that would allow it to successfully stabilize human brain cells derived from fetuses and to proceed with treatments for different brain diseases. Eventually these could be used to combat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, diabetes, chronic heart and kidney disease, liver failure, cancer and spinal-cord injury. Though stem cells can be obtained from adult tissue, scientists say they must also experiment with cells from fetuses and embryos if stem-cell research is to be translated into such specific...
Enabling international students to attend colleges in America’s free and open society—and encouraging Americans to spend time at universities abroad—is an important way we can combat the ignorance and hatred which manifested itself on Sept. 11. Therefore, where possible, friendly foreign governments should assist U.S. agencies in their background checks to weed out potential terrorists. All stand to gain from extending foreign students a safe and speedy welcome...
Meanwhile, despite the new laws and new commitments to combat terrorism, many of the experts agree that the country needs to begin addressing the roots of the problem in order to effectively prevent future attacks...
...most obvious, and likely the most permanent changes since Sept. 11, have come in the government’s work to combat terrorism...
Amid repeated media attention to actions designed to combat terrorism by the government since Sept. 11, the American public has increasingly begun to question the curtailing of some civil liberties, according to David Little, Dunphy professor of the practice in religion, ethnicity and international conflict at Harvard Divinity School...