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...like eons to some researchers - but on March 9, President Obama rescinded his predecessor's Executive Order prohibiting the use of federal money to fund research on stem cells. A congressional law still prevents scientists from using government funds to create new lines of embryonic stem cells, which can develop into any of the body's tissues, but at least scientists are now free to use that money to study the hundreds of stem-cell lines already in existence. Before embarking on such research, however, scientists had to wait for a working group at the National Institutes of Health...
...Stem-Cell-Created Mice The birth of yet another laboratory mouse is hardly worth noting - unless the furry creature is the first to be developed from stem cells that do not involve embryonic cells. That deserves to be called a breakthrough. The new pups, whose creation in two separate labs in China was announced in July, were the first to be bred from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. These are adult cells (usually skin cells) that scientists reprogram back to their embryonic state by introducing four genes. The reprogrammed stem cells are then programmed again to develop into mice...
...work to relay signals from one nerve cell to another. It's not clear yet exactly how the genes increase Alzheimer's risk - in fact, most healthy people have some version of the three genes - but researchers hope that the growing pool of genetic factors will eventually help them develop more effective and better-targeted treatments for the disease. See the Top 10 Pictures of the Year...
...process after Iraqi officials refused to pay more than $2 for each barrel produced above a certain threshold. (Instead of leasing the fields to operators and receiving royalties for every barrel of oil sold, Iraq is retaining ownership of production. In essence, the government is employing oil companies to develop the fields, paying them by the barrel...
...Arab-owned news channel al-Arabiya during his first week in office, he would be "very clear in distinguishing between organizations ... that espouse violence, espouse terror and act on it - and people who ... have a [different] viewpoint [from the U.S.'s] in terms of how their countries should develop." Hizballah and Hamas would have to transform themselves to gain U.S. recognition, but while Bush's goal was to smash the two movements, Obama's seems to be to nudge that transformation along...