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...argue that their departures will cause the balance of power within the White House to shift to the right. "The only two moderates in the place are leaving," says a liberal House Democratic leadership aide who has worked with both men this year. "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what that means...
...WARF's royalties will be low--historically they have ranged from less than 1% to 5% of net sales, with a fifth of that going to the scientist who made the original discovery. That's partly to make research widely available while still compensating scientists for their intellectual-property rights. "We have tried to make this access as open as possible," says WARF spokesman Andrew Cohn. "Imagine if a private company had sole control of this patent." Indeed, says Todd Dickinson, a patent attorney and former head of the U.S. Patent Office, "it sounds like WARF is trying to keep...
...asked himself searching questions that endocrinologist James Prihoda, his college roommate, sees as a sign of his deep "respect for life and strong feeling that there is a purpose to it." Is this research ethical? Is it moral? Thomson, a nonpracticing Congregationalist who is married to a fellow scientist and is the father of two young children, wasn't sure. He read every study he could get his hands on and consulted, among others, University of Wisconsin bioethicists R. Alta Charo and Norman Fost. Since the embryos he planned to use were doomed anyway--one of the arguments cited...
Goldman-Rakic, a professor of neuroscience, neurology and psychiatry at Yale, has spent the past 30 years immersed in the frontal lobe. In the early 1970s, working at the National Institute of Mental Health as one of the few women in the field, she became the first scientist to draw a comprehensive biological map of neuroscience's terra incognita, showing that its tangled web of neurons is actually a series of columns of highly specialized nerve cells...
...least that's the hope of investors who have lobbed the first of potentially billions of dollars at a simple chemical principle that an obscure British scientist named William Grove discovered in 1839: when hydrogen and oxygen molecules combine to form water, heat and electricity are produced. Tapping that energy, by binding individual cells into what is known as a "stack," could mean efficient, continuous and clean electricity for everything from long-lasting cell-phone batteries to industrial power generators. And although fuel cells have generated buzz at least since astronauts took a prototype into space on Gemini...