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...from 3% to 10% of IVF embryos get either too many or too few chromosomes when they are fertilized; these embryos have no chance of survival and would never be transplanted into a IVF patient. Other than their abnormal chromosome count, however, they are perfectly normal, and Eggan has proven that with mouse cells-"we removed the abnormal set of chromosomes in a one-celled embryo, replaced it with a normal set of chromosomes from a donor cell, and showed that those reconstructed embryos can be used to generate embryonic stem cell lines," he says. "It can work...
...expanding science at Harvard while maintaining the coherence of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and allowing both small and large research endeavors to thrive. Such vexing tasks don’t call for someone with a particular academic background; they require and deserve a trustworthy steward with proven leadership and intellectual abilities—someone who can listen and who will respond intelligently and appropriately to new circumstances...
...Fortunately for Harvard, our President-elect has proven herself to be a careful decision-maker with the sound judgment it will take to face such issues—one who seeks input from a wide range of opinions. This doesn’t mean it will be easy. But such qualities will prove essential as Faust tackles the challenging scientific concerns at Harvard, chooses deans to work with on these and other important questions, and addresses other arenas such as gender and minority issues—including those in the sciences where they are far from settled. I am still...
When I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was sentenced Tuesday to a surprisingly long term of 30 months in prison for perjury and obstruction of justice, he became a victim of one of the most troubling aspects of federal sentencing laws - allowing harsher sentences for a crime that was never actually proven...
...took place, and Scheck and Neufeld followed the case closely. By the spring of 1992, the team had founded the New York-based Innocence Project, a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing. Fifteen years later, the project has proven the innocence of 201 people. Similar projects have also been started in 39 states, Washington, D.C., Canada, the U.K. and Australia...