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Scientists have been exploring alternatives to the traditional—but harmful—retrovirus approach since researchers first reprogrammed human skin cells with the method late last year. Integrating these viruses into the cells' DNA causes permanent genetic manipulation, which can trigger malignant tumor growth, making them unsafe for human use. Scientists ultimately hope to clear this hurdle and treat a wide variety of human diseases by transplanting body tissues created from stem cells. Only three weeks ago, Harvard Medical School professor Konrad A. Hochedlinger and his colleagues at HSCI reported that they created mouse iPS cells using harmless...
...Many have often failed to appreciate the importance of basic knowledge,” Hastings said, adding that scientists should not follow Republican presidential nominee John McCain in deprecating the study of DNA in bears. (While McCain has mockingly said in recent weeks that he didn’t know if the research were due to “a paternity issue or a criminal issue,” Hastings applauded the fact that the federal government has been supportive of fundamental science research in the past...
...This is, of course, not a brand-new programming strategy: All in the Family was adapted from a British show, reality hits from American Idol to Survivor have overseas DNA, and Ugly Betty and The Office are remakes of international hits, while CBS ran the made-in-Canada cop show Flashpoint this summer...
Throughout the Harvard T station, one is now bombarded with questions that not even Harvard students typically ask: “Could you spare some DNA?” “Are 42 arms just as useful...
...couple finished dining there two weeks ago. Noyer had received a “spotted” text, and rushed over to the scene. After a meal occupied more by oogling than chewing, he left the restaurant not with a hand-penned autograph, but with some first-hand celebrity DNA. Upon chatting with the waitress and discovering that Justin’s wine glass had already been claimed (his overtures for Justin’s fork were for naught, as Timberlake was eating a sandwich), Noyer recalls, “I said something like, ‘OMG, would...