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But Daley said that his colleague's findings, which were funded by HSCI and the Maryland-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute are "really the first conclusive evidence" for reprogramming one tissue type into another.
Douglas Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and a researcher with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, cautioned that the approach is not ready for people.
In the 15 years that Robert Maheu served as the public face of Howard Hughes, he never once met his reclusive and eccentric boss in person. A former operative for both the CIA and the FBI--he notoriously solicited the help of the Mafia in an assassination plot against Fidel...
Before long, Maheu, who died Aug. 4 at age 90, became Hughes' right-hand man. During the 1960s, when Hughes lived in seclusion in a penthouse atop the Desert Inn hotel in Las Vegas, "Maheu was running around town, cutting deals, assuaging politicians, making things happen--and keeping Howard apprised...
In a way, Maheu represented everything Hughes wasn't. "Hughes was drawn to men who could do things that he couldn't do," Broeske says. To Hughes, Maheu "was like one of those guys out of a spy movie: he kind of bested James Bond."