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Realizing that potential - and with it, the prospect of successful treatments for conditions like Parkinson's or diabetes - may still be a few years away. Even iPS cells have yet to prove that they are a safe and suitable substitute for the diseased cells they might eventually replace in a patient. Ensuring their safety would require doing away with dangerous genes that can also cause cancer, as well as the retroviral carriers that Yamanaka originally used. Melton's team has already replaced two of the genes with chemicals, and he anticipates that the remaining ones will be swapped...
...there another way to express your unhappiness?' JEAN-FRANÇOIS COPE, of France's National Assembly, on the prospect of the country's transportation networks, public schools and government offices shutting down after labor unions called for a one-day strike...
These findings have policy implications. Keltner has noticed that so far, government and media types have portrayed the prospect of a Greater Depression as "something to be enormously fearful of." He says, "If you listen to these messages, this problem is framed as an abyss, a downward spiral...
...prospect of unpleasant confirmation hearings made returning Summers to the top spot at Treasury an unappealing option in Obamaland. And so Summers was made director of the National Economic Council, which even in quiet times has a large staff and vast clout. He has already fallen into a steady routine, waking before sunrise at his northwest-Washington apartment, from which his wife Elisa New plans to commute to her job as an English professor at Harvard. (Each has three children from a previous marriage.) About 13 hours later, after meetings on a dizzying array of topics, he returns home...
Incoming fellow James O’Shea, who was previously editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times, said he relished the prospect of taking a step back from day-to-day journalism to think deeply...