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In states where research opponents are perennially close to passing restrictive laws, uncertainty can stall science. In Missouri, conservative legislators who believe that using human embryos would be taking lives have proposed restrictions four years in a row. Although they failed each time, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in...
The rush is on to copy California. A group called Cures for Florida hopes to get a $1 billion initiative, modeled on Proposition 71, on the statewide ballot next year. Washington Governor Christine Gregoire last week signed a bill allotting $350 million from the state's tobacco-suit settlement to...
The stem-cell debate is a moral minefield, and legislative activity doesn't necessarily lead to law, even when there's popular support. In Maryland last month, pro-life state senators blocked a vote on a bill that would have allowed state funding for research even though the bill had...
That's exactly what happened last week. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden who had earlier shown that hormonelike pheromones stimulate the human hypothalamus--a part of the brain that governs sexual arousal--took the experiment one provocative step further. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
MND is so awful, says Professor Perry Bartlett, director of the Queensland Brain Institute, "that the desire to do something in this area is stupendous. But there are lots of people willing to satisfy that demand in a way that doesn't fit with the rigor of clinical trials or...