Word: stemming
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...some of the building’s problems stem from Harvard’s legal concerns...
...labs across the globe, a biological “space race” of sorts is pitting nation against nation in a competition to uncover the therapeutic potential of stem cells. Only this time, the foreign competitors are way ahead...
...February, South Korean scientists successfully extracted a line of stem cells from a cloned human embryo, a Sputnik-sized embarrassment for U.S. researchers. Stymied by the Bush administration’s 2001 prohibition on federal funds for research on newly-created stem cell lines, American scientists have long been confronted by an unattractive choice—use scarce, sometimes inferior government-approved stem cell lines or strike out alone without any federal cash...
Thanks to the efforts of private donors, however, U.S. research into the creation of new stem cell lines has continued—albeit at a reduced pace. Harvard, to its credit, has led this push. In March, Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton made 17 new stem cell lines freely available for private use. And last week, Harvard unveiled plans for a new stem cell center aimed at coordinating the University’s research in the area. Funded privately to circumvent government restrictions, the center will help to quicken the pace of American stem cell research...
...piece of science with little or no application to humans. The process by which she was produced is so technically difficult--not to mention ethically charged--that it is hard to see how it could be attempted with human subjects. In theory, the technique might be used to create stem cells, but even this scenario is a bit farfetched. What the experiment offers, however, is a tantalizing glimpse into one of the central mysteries of mammalian biology: Why do we need genes from both a mother and a father in order to be born...