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...Kinsley brought to light the fact that the embryonic stem cells used in research come from fertility clinics, which otherwise would discard them. The advances scientists have made without government funding prove that with the necessary backing, we could be well on the way to curing Parkinson's and myriad other illnesses. Jessica McLellan, MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS...
...These myriad real-world applications are exactly what the lasers’ developers said have been working...
Since then, the boom in bets related to climate change has proliferated in other financial markets, too. With amateur and professional investors alike growing more concerned about global warming, financial institutions are finding a myriad of ways to cash in. A whole host of new indices, funds and esoteric instruments have been created to meet their needs. Some, for example, offer ways for investors to ride the long-term growth of sectors such as renewable energy, waste management and Arctic shipping; others bundle and package climate-change risk so it can be traded like platinum or pork bellies by hedge...
...fact that “I see my life as a mosaic.” And these are people who allowed their essays to be published in a compilation! What about those of us who never want to think about international diamond theft again? Harvard’s myriad comps combine all the pleasures of applying with the thrill of what for many Harvard students is an exciting new possibility: rejection. And this is in fact a good thing. Without rejection, acceptance would lose its cachet. Besides, as T. H. Huxley observed, “There is the greatest practical...
...coaxed into becoming any type of tissue, and then be transplanted back into the donor with little risk of rejection. Still, these cells are far from ready for medical use. The viruses used to ferry the genes that manipulate the cells can introduce genetic mutations and cancer. And with myriad ways to reprogram a cell, sorting out the best ones will take time - meaning that stem cells from embryos will remain useful (and controversial) for a while. Both Yamanaka and Thomson admit that we still know too little about how the process works to exploit the method's full potential...