Word: stemness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gleaned from his torture helped legitimize the Iraq War. The Iraq War promised to turn disaffected youths into a new generation of extremists. Meanwhile, the human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the CIA’s “black sites” hampered our ability to stem atrocities in countries like Sudan, Burma, and Zimbabwe...
...officially endorse George W. Bush, the mega-author made no secret of his preference. Two weeks before the election, he sent an e-mail to the several hundred thousand pastors on his mailing list, enumerating "non-negotiable" issues for Christians to consider when casting their votes: abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage, euthanasia and human cloning. Shortly after the election, two attendees of a Washington meeting of conservative religious and political heavyweights remember Warren's actively soliciting advice on how he might increase his clout with GOP politicians...
Though the researchers expressed optimism about their ability to use the reprogrammed stem cells to study the progression of Lou Gehrig's disease and test potential treatments, a number of hurdles remain to discovering such therapies...
...researchers have not yet shown that the stem-cells-derived neurons degenerate as diseased neurons do in the human body, but they added they hope to do so in a matter of months...
...addition, the stem cells are specific to only a certain type of the disease, which afflicts less than five percent of sufferers, Eggan said. But the study authors said research on this less-common variant could have broader applications, if, as they hope, the disease mechanism is similar for most or all types of Lou Gehrig's disease despite different initial triggers in the vast majority of ALS patients...