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Recent events have overtaken my considerations for Person of the Year. I think stem-cell pioneers James Thomson and Shinya Yamanaka are good nominees. I'm not a molecular biologist, but their discoveries with stem cells will have enormous scientific and political impact--which is very rare. Certainly, this discovery is as big and potentially even bigger than the cloning of Dolly, the sheep...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS) study found that blood stem cells patrol the body’s organs, and, if exposed to infectious agents, have the capacity to participate in immune response...
...paper published in Cell last week, HMS Immunopathology Professor Ulrich H. von Andrian and colleagues revealed that stem cells are more versatile and active than scientists previously thought...
...Republicans have discredited the values of issues—things like the [Terry] Schiavo case. I think the Republicans have now scared people, so I think that is no longer the case. I think that to some extent that’s backfired on them, you know, the anti stem-cell research. I think conservatism had a strong heyday. I think it is ebbing...
...Edwards, of Wellesley, Mass., and Kirkland House, was studying to become a doctor and conducted stem cell research at Harvard Medical School. It was in the Medical School’s New Research Building, in a fourth-floor bathroom, that someone found Edwards’ body and called the police around 11 p.m. Thursday night, according to the Boston Police Department...