Word: defection
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...reconciled with their expressed support for Roe v. Wade. In a Pew poll last October, a majority of Americans said they supported legal abortion only in the case of rape, when the mother's life or health is endangered or when there is a strong chance of serious birth defect...
...cord blood to save babies born with Krabbe disease, a rare and usually fatal genetic disorder. The illness, which prevents brain development and causes rapid deterioration and death, was immediately halted by transplanting another baby's cord blood--and the stem cells it contained-- into infants with the Krabbe defect...
...create a new stem cell line. The remaining seven cells retain the ability to implant into the uterus and develop into a normal fetus.The second method, known as alternative nuclear transfer and published by MIT researchers, creates embryonic cell lines from cells that were engineered to have a temporary defect in them, rendering them unable to implant into a uterus.Such cells are not implantable and thus a “non-viable artifact” that is therefore acceptable to experiment on, said William B. Hurlbut, a consulting professor in the human biology program at Stanford and a member...
...former Soviet Union, who built the team that gave the U.S. its first Olympic defeat in that sport in 1972; in Moscow. Ironically, the bespectacled Gomelsky wasn't present for his team's most famous win as he had been denied a visa by Soviet authorities fearful he might defect at the Munich games. DIED. BROTHER ROGER, 90, humble, ecumenical theologian who attracted tens of thousands of young followers to his spiritual center in southern France to participate in prayer circles and chants; of stab wounds inflicted by a mentally disturbed woman; in Taiz?, France. Born into a Swiss Protestant...
...Soviet Union who built the team that in 1972 gave the U.S. its first Olympic defeat in that sport; of cancer; in Moscow. Ironically, the bespectacled Gomelsky wasn't at his team's most famous win because he had been denied a visa by Soviet authorities fearful he might defect at the Munich Games...