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...human genome project to better understand the underlying chemistry of disease. One current project is attempting to build an inhibitor for every human gene, and researchers just completed a catalog of human genetic variation called the Haplotype Map. “I’m just a humble social scientist so I don’t understand all of this,” said Summers during his remarks, “but I am an economist and I know that an investment that doubles 18 months later is a really great investment.” Summers has pushed the expansion...
...foreign governments, are now uncomfortable with the United States’ control over the Internet. But how does the U.S. really “control” the Internet? The Internet is commonly perceived as an amorphous and decentralized network which evades regulation. According to Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, asking exactly who controls the Internet is like asking “who controls the flow of the ocean.” Yet it must be possible to control the Internet in some way. Currently an American company known as the Internet Corporation...
...Hwang's rush to push ahead with his work, a conflict was perhaps inevitable. "The whole issue of using human eggs and reproductive cloning is so sensitive that you have to be squeaky clean ethically," says Dr. Richard Boyd, a stem-cell scientist at Australia's Monash University. Despite the scandal, Hwang, who says he'll continue his research, remains a hero at home?last week more than 600 Korean women signed up to donate their eggs. That reaction worries Ku In Hoe, a bioethicist at Catholic University in Seoul. "Korea's representative scientist just turned...
...could block scientific advances." She said government and media are confusing the public by obscuring the real issue-that "Korean science has lost credibility in the world." Seoul National University's oversight committee announced that its investigation showed no ethical or legal problems, she notes, but "Korea's representative scientist just turned out to be a liar. We should not try to cover this up. This scandal exposed the ugly underbelly of Korea's research environment...
...year of mathematics, the reaction was, “What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?” Aside from discrimination, Yale Professor of Physics C. Meg Urry struggled with the lack of role models in the sciences. She said she had never heard of a woman scientist until she entered graduate school. Yesterday, Urry said she was excited just sitting at the same table as the other four pioneers. “These women...were incredibly important role models,” Urry said. Wolff said the lack of role models limited substantial upward mobility in their...