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...producing identical animals were its only application, but cloning is also the foundation for one of the more promising ways that stem cells might be used to treat human disease with a patient's own cells. At this rate, even cloning's most ardent supporters agree that such a method won't be very reliable, or very realistic. If therapeutic cloning, as it is known, is to become a viable treatment option, then the first thing scientists need to do is boost the cloning technique's efficiency...
...made up of African-Americans) would have to make do without these luxuries. Described by many as “innovative” and “daring,” this systematic inequality will likely radically change the game’s dynamic.Many have also lauded the new method of voting in tribal council. While Seiku is going to remain on the somewhat stale “one man, one vote” model, Anawatu tribe members will only be able to vote in tribal council after passing a complex “Survivor Literacy Test” about...
...that, it was on to co-found Intel, the company that first made the microprocessors that enabled the computer, which enabled practically everything we do today--except, perhaps, tending to the sick. "In a modern ICU, there is data acquisition on top of data acquisition, and the data-collection method is a clipboard," says Grove, eliciting a chuckle from the crowd. "Show me one more industry where that's how it works...
...science,” O’Donovan wrote. Found in the constellation Draco, TrES-2 is one of 200 planets found outside our solar system—but it’s one of only a dozen that can be observed using the “transit method.” “What’s special about these 12 is they’re the only ones for which we can actually measure the mass and size directly, from which we can get the density, and can guess what they’re made...
...there limits to neuromarketing's reach? FMRI studies are expensive. Brammer says a medium-size study could cost from $94,000 to $188,000. Less expensive options can answer some marketing questions, though. For Unilever, Walla recently used a startle-reflex method that measures muscle control of eye blinks to determine that eating ice cream makes people happier than eating yogurt or chocolate. Another drawback of scanners: lying in one is hardly a natural environment for watching TV or spotting brands. But new versions that let subjects sit up under contraptions that resemble salon hair dryers should increase the comfort...