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...meantime, Eggan's group has provided an alternative method for generating customized stem cells that would take advantage of the early-stage embryos frozen in IVF centers around the country. The most reliable way of generating patient-specific stem cells remains nuclear transfer-taking the nucleus from a patient's skin cell and inserting it into an egg that has had its nucleus removed. This hybrid then begins to divide, and within a few days, generates stem cells that are genetically identical to the patient. The problem, however, as Eggan puts it, is that "there are never any extra unfertilized...
...this year’s labor protest, a building takeover seemed out of the question, leaving the undergraduate activists to adopt a less confrontational—but perhaps more dangerous—method of dissent...
...Pullen says about the Dubai center, which is already in operation despite an expected completion date of 2010. The Dubai center offers postgraduate training and continuing medical education programs, and the center is currently constructing a 350,000-square foot facility that will include an auditorium, case method rooms, simulation center, and 30,000-square foot library, according to the center’s Web site...
...Despite these advantages, this basic, safe and responsible method of controlling conception is unnecessarily regulated, even though research indicates that making oral contraceptive available OTC would dramatically increase its usage. According to a survey by Louis Harris and Associates, quoted in a policy report for the Institute For Women, “20.4 percent of sexually active women who currently do not use the Pill would be very likely to switch to that form of birth control if it were available over-the-counter,” which, the report adds, would lead to an increase of 6.96 million users...
...lectured and my students took notes. Never mind if someone described the lecture method as a process whereby the notes of the instructor get transferred to the notebooks of the students without passing through the brains of either...