Word: stemming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Americans who regularly attend church believe that gay marriage, abortion and stem-cell research are sins. Many others don't think those are really sins and don't go to church much but do believe that invading a country and causing thousands of deaths and incalculable misery to innocent people is a sin. I wonder whom God will forgive...
...have this straight. It's O.K. to lie about the reasons for invading another country but not O.K. for two men or two women to marry. It's O.K. to hand our children a budget deficit that will choke them but not O.K. to use stem cells to fight disease. It's O.K. to duck the real war on terrorism, jeopardize Social Security and take a pass on fixing the health-care system but not O.K. to believe in the separation of church and state. Would those be the famous "moral values"? Thanks, but no. You keep yours...
...STEM CELLS...
Despite scattered progress in funding embryonic stem-cell research at the state level (notably in California, which passed a $3 billion stem-cell bond measure), political pressure at the national level kept such research on the back burner. Meanwhile, there were several advances in the effort to get adult stem cells to work like embryonic stem cells (which can morph into any type of cell in the body). One small study involved heart patients undergoing bypass surgery. In half the patients, stem cells harvested from bone marrow in their hipbones were injected into their damaged heart tissue. The results were...
...brave new world of cloned babies has yet to materialize, but each year scientists get closer to copying humans. South Korean scientists announced in February that with improved techniques they managed to get cloned embryos to survive long enough for them to extract the world's first cloned human stem cells. In theory, such cells could be used to create any of the body's more than 200 tissue types. While that possibility is still years away, the new techniques could someday be used to obtain replacement tissue for patients using their own cells--thus avoiding the need for donors...