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...that Yamanaka has helped show science the path, the race is on to discover the researcher's holy grail: a way to reprogram adult cells in human beings. The Japanese pioneer finds himself at a disadvantage. Scientists in the U.S. and Europe can draw on deeper reserves of money and talent. U.S. states such as California and Massachusetts are spending billions of dollars on stem-cell research, hoping to lay the groundwork for development of new medical industries. In contrast, Yamanaka's lab at Kyoto is relatively basic, and the Japanese government has only recently begun channeling real funding into...
...those who had higher levels. More cells in the blood could be a sign that the drugs are not working and that it's time for a different chemotherapy regimen. Such blood-based diagnostics may not yet have beaten cancer, but, says an enthusiastic Mills, they "are the holy grail." Those are decidedly optimistic words in a specialty too often short on them...
...hear of a picture that has seized some early viewers' imaginations and becomes a Word of Mouth hit. Then we beg the publicist for an extra screening. It's as if we learned that a cup of café au lait at some backwater dive was the Holy Grail. Gotta have a sip from that...
...exposed columns and exposed ceilings - it's very urban." Simon Woodroffe, owner of the YO! Sushi restaurant chain, is taking a similar, less-is-more approach to hospitality. Later this month he opens his first "Yotel" at London's Gatwick Airport. "We're doing what I call the Holy Grail of retail: delivering what rich people have to ordinary people," says Woodroffe...
...world is a brighter place because Shuji Nakamura is not easily discouraged. In 1993 he astonished the scientific community with the first successful blue light-emitting diode, or LED. The blue LED was the last step in the creation of lighting's holy grail, the brilliant white LED--an ultra-efficient successor to Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb, circa...