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...Melton, co-director of HSCI, and his team took skin cells from two Type 1 diabetes patients, exposed the cells to a cocktail of three genes that converted them back to an embryonic state - which are referred to as pluripotent stem cells - then instructed the newly reborn cells to grow into beta cells, the cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin. In Type 1 diabetes, these beta cells no longer work to break down the glucose that floods the body after each meal, leading to blood-sugar spikes that can damage the kidneys and heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stem-Cell Discovery Could Help Diabetics | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...Find a New Way to Grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Government: Five Ways to Fix the Economy | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...receive government benefits cannot rely on the public pension system for adequate retirement funding. In short, this thin social safety net perpetuates the population decline and prevents private consumption from rising to offset the shrinking number of consumers. You can't expect the population and the economy to grow by guaranteeing survival to only the oldest workers and businesses while subjecting everyone else to market forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Deal | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...time-honored Freshmen A Cappella Jam may be cut short this year (hey, we didn’t say every development would be negative). And we expect ice cream socials to soon become ice cube socials or just cream socials. Freshmen might actually go hungry this year or grow fatigued without this sustenance—necessary to maintaining those inhuman enthusiasm levels during the first days on campus. Opening Days just won’t be the same without those sugar-induced, grinning faces...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: There's No Time To Read This | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...raise. I had a really hard time with constructive criticism and with making mistakes and as an adult understood that I was coping with the fallout from that pressure. That's why I wrote this book. Not just for girls, but so that girls don't have to grow up and become adult women who can't ask for raises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Being a Good Girl Is Bad | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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