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...donate stem-cell lines to the new publicly funded U.K. Stem Cell Bank. Many challenges remain. In addition to ethical and intellectual property rights issues, scientists are still some way from understanding or controlling the processes whereby cells differentiate - the genes, signal pathways and other factors that promote or inhibit cell development. And they are still debating the best way to expand the process so that millions of patients can be treated with stem cells. Transplantation poses its own problems. Patrik Brundin, a professor of neuroscience at Sweden's Lund University, started transplanting embryonic tissue in the brains of patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope for Healing | 9/15/2002 | See Source »

...Research Center, in Massachusetts General Hospital, investigators are beginning a yearlong study of at least 10 bipolar drugs, comparing the merits of each and the ways they can best be combined. Others are looking at such unconventional treatments as omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish oil, which may inhibit the same brain receptors that lithium affects. Elsewhere, researchers are running brain scans to determine which lobes and regions are involved in bipolar disorder and how to target them more accurately with drugs. Investigators also hope to develop a blood test that will allow bipolar disorder to be spotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manic Depression: Young and Bipolar | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

...Glaceau's vitamin waters huge sellers. Now, big guns like Pepsi and Snapple, trying to raise their share of the $6.9 billion bottled-water market, have launched their own concoctions. But drinking more water may not always be good for you. "The sugar levels in these drinks can actually inhibit the body's water- and vitamin-absorption and cause stomach cramping," warns Shan James, physiologist at Duke Health and Fitness Center. She also notes that the ingredients listed on the label can be tricky to decipher. How many calories are you really getting from some popular fortified waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water, Water Everywhere...and Calories Too | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

...majority called this voucher system a 'neutral educational aid program'," says Barbara Perry, professor of government and Supreme Court expert at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. "In the view of the majority, this program does not aid or inhibit religion." Dissenters argue that there is not "true private choice" for parents - a test for voucher programs - because 80 percent of the schools getting money from this program were, in fact, religious schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supreme Court: Two Rules for Schools | 6/27/2002 | See Source »

...RELIGIOUS SURVEILLANCE] Agents can enter any public place for the purpose of gathering information about the possibility of criminal activity, as long as they don't inhibit or suppress free speech or compile unnecessary files on First Amendment activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's New At The FBI | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

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