Word: stemming
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...charges against Waksal stem from his attempt to sell $4.9 million of ImClone stock on Dec. 27. He learned on Dec. 26 that the company's application for the cancer drug Erbitux was going to be denied review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration--news that the company made public after the markets closed on Dec. 28. He is also accused of tipping off his daughter Aliza, who sold $2.5 million of ImClone, and his father Jack, who sold $6.7 million of the stock ahead of the FDA news. Only Waksal has been charged; he denies wrongdoing...
...matched set of articles published online by the British science journal Nature last week seemed calculated to provide succor to both sides in the simmering stem-cell debate. In one study, University of Minnesota researchers isolated bone-marrow cells from adult mice, grew them in dishes and injected them into mouse embryos, where they developed into nerve, liver and other types of cells. In the other study, scientists from the National Institutes of Health did similar work with stem cells from mouse embryos, which developed into brain cells that produce dopamine and could be used to treat Parkinson's disease...
Proponents of human therapeutic cloning hailed the NIH study as proof that scientists need to work with stem cells taken from embryos. Foes cited the Minnesota work as proof that the same results can be achieved without embryos...
Nature says it wasn't trying to influence the stem-cell debate and that it often pairs related articles. (These two will be printed in the July 4 issue.) The editors also insist that the timing--appearing on the Web at the moment the U.S. Senate is stalled on two competing cloning bills--was simply to avoid being scooped by its rival, Science...
Well, the cow experiment shows the way to even more human betterment. Fetal tissue offers a far simpler and more promising way to produce replacement tissues--it skips all the complications of stem-cell biology and gives you tissue that you can implant right into the human patient. Millions are suffering, are they...