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...sperm are not ready for transplantation into human patients - in any case, British law prohibits their transplantation into people - but they may provide valuable clues to the causes of male infertility. Nayernia's group is now working on creating sperm from the skin cells of infertile men (the sperm cells in the current study were generated from embryos discarded by fertility clinics), and by studying the way those sperm develop, researchers may gain insight into the origins of infertility and potential new treatments. Theoretically, for example, if sperm could be created from the cells of a cancer patient...
...men and women find their ways differently? There's a basic distinction that's often made between navigation using the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west) and navigation using landmarks. And that difference in style is often cast as being part of the basis of gender differences in wayfinding. People say that women are more likely to navigate with landmarks and men are more likely to navigate using the cardinal directions. (Read "In Search of Ourselves...
...wisdom is individual and undefined; it develops, in sum or in part, from our experiences. This concept is not new: As early as 1837 the Supreme Court recognized in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge that the most profound wisdom was exercised by “[t]he wise men who framed [the] [C]onstitution” and is guided by human experience. Judge Sotomayor’s appointment would add another layer of human experience to the Court...
...once again had to deconstruct the implications of such reasoning. Are legal minors in The Netherlands somehow less worthy than American children? Is there some cultural norm about sex in Dutch society that makes children mature enough to rationally decide to sell their bodies to men double, triple, even quadruple their...
...police blocked them from moving south into Uighur neighborhoods, at times firing tear gas. Xinjiang People's Hospital in the city center took in at least a dozen Uighurs who were beaten. One patient, 22-year-old Abdul, says he was attacked by a crowd of about 100 Han men. He suffered a head injury and a broken arm. (See TIME's China covers...