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Last month, the University declined to announce a dollar figure at which its much-heralded Stem Cell Institute would be funded, leaving unclear the extent of Harvard’s commitment to the new venture and the ability of FAS, a major partner, to devote its precious funds to the institute...
...symposium on Friday morning featured remarks from Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel—teacher of the popular course, Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice”—who defended human embryonic stem cell research on moral grounds but warned of its close relationship to human cloning. Sandel, a member of President Bush’s Council on Bioethics, has opposed human cloning...
...financial ambiguity in the launch of the Stem Cell Institute stood in contrast to Harvard’s announcement last June of the Broad Institute, which administrators quickly publicized as a $200-million joint venture with MIT to study the human genome. But the Broad Institute was founded on an original donation of $100 million, far more than the Stem Cell Institute’s $5-million founding donation...
Schultz didn't invent good coffee, of course, much less cafe culture. But he did mass-produce and Americanize both, which, as the familiar story goes, led to their globalization. The company helped stem a long decline in U.S. coffee consumption and taught the food industry the attractions of affordable luxuries. "It's like Marshall Field's in the 19th century," says Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn. "When someone does something big, ripples follow." Starbucks continues to expand, having entered coffee-conscious France earlier this year. Schultz, who drinks black drip, says the company plans to have at least...
...been not random mixes of two parents but perfect copies of the women who donated the DNA. That, however, is not what Hwang and Moon wanted. "We will never try to produce cloned human beings," Hwang said. What they do want to produce--and, in fact, did--is embryonic stem cells, the biological blank slates that develop into all the body's tissues. Thanks to stem-cell technology, people could become their own tissue donors with pristine, unrejectable cells at the ready to repair damage done by, say, Alzheimer's disease or spinal-cord injury. Stem-cell research...