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...debut 2003 novel Amok, Polish author Krystian Bala describes the torture and murder of a young woman whose hands are bound behind her back with a cord that is then looped to form a noose around her neck. According to a judge's ruling this week in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, Bala was drawing not on his imagination for that scene, but on his own experience...
Those “adult” stem cells are taken from the umbilical cord immediately after birth, and have been put forth by many embryonic stem cell opponents as a way to avoid destroying embryos...
...that parthenogenetic stem cells have been discovered, will we finally begin to see the kind of individualized treatments - for diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and spinal cord injuries - that science has promised? Probably not. Although parthenogenesis is easier to achieve than nuclear transfer - about 20% of the time, eggs can be stimulated to divide on their own, compared to a 3%-5% development rate for nuclear transfer embryos - parthenogenesis still requires a steady supply of good quality human eggs. These are notoriously difficult to obtain, so the technique won't likely revolutionize medicine yet. But, suggests Daley, it could...
...find a proper venue, he found Mrs. Warner, a wizened elderly resident, who offered up her front lawn - a patch of windswept dirt - for the event. Fried managed to borrow several plastic chairs from the Sea Breeze Bar across the street. A single lightbulb hooked onto a long electrical cord and suspended from an old wooden ladder was rigged up as a spotlight as Fried addressed a small group of local residents...
...plan is implemented, students who choose to pay for television would plug a small box into a power outlet in their room. An Ethernet cord would then transmit the signal to a computer or another box that connects to a television...