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NEW YORK: Don't have a cow -? not yet, anyway. The experiment reported in Thursday's New York Times, in which a Massachusetts biotech firm fused a human cell with a cow cell to create that primeval soup known as stem cells (which can be transformed into either human tissue...
"They could have given a little more assurance as to what was being done here," said Dr. John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins -? one of the authors of a successful study released last week in which stem cells were created from dead human embryos. ACT's experiment is raising eyebrows because...
As part of the experiment, Glenn and Dr. Chiaka Mukai, a payload specialist from Japan, spent four nights wired to sensors that monitored breathing, muscle tension, brain waves, oxygen levels and eye and body movement. After their return Saturday, they slept at Johnson Space Center in Houston, still wired to...
The study is also looking at the use of melatonin, a hormone produced in the brain, to ease sleeping disorders. While Mukai participated in this part of the experiment, Glenn was disqualified for reasons NASA would not disclose. Although melatonin is currently used by millions of Americans looking to improve...
In the end (beginning?) it seems that Sussner has followed the process that also sustained Shakespeare throughout his career. Leaving much of the play behind, he has taken the story of Richard III and created something different. With any luck, this experiment will lead to others: refinements of earlier stories...