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Certain blood cancers may be caused by the surrounding bone marrow in which blood is produced, according to recent findings from researchers at Harvard’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology department...
...principal investigator Dr. David T. Scadden of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, the team of researchers has succeeded in refuting the common notion that cancer emerges from the mutations of a single cell...
...Stem cells maintain our tissues and get their signals from their environment,” Scadden said. “We just happened upon this finding that in fact abnormal signals can not just prevent stem cells from functioning normally, but can change the whole system...
...pump logic is also behind the use of the government to create demand - what we know as stimulus spending. Last year's $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has received its fair share of criticism for funds being dispersed too slowly and for not doing enough to stem unemployment. But in Austin, Bruce Matous has a different point of view. "This saved my family business," says the president of Matous Construction...
Obama’s first year has certainly not, despite the claims of many, been void of important successes. Economists overwhelmingly agree that stimulus measures helped to stem the hemorrhage of jobs, and now even Republican governors are speaking to its effectiveness in bolstering state economies and preventing mass layoffs. The president has been stunningly effective in reversing the decline of foreign opinion of the U.S. President Obama has drawn the American automobile industry back from the brink, protected equal pay for women, launched innovative education reforms, expanded health-care to four million children, begun the decommissioning of Guantanamo...