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...Bioengineering professor David J. Mooney, also working with a grant from the Defense Department, is studying the signaling processes that determine how stem cells differentiate to become different types of tissues...
...This project uses microfluidic systems and also involves “an exploration of the space between stem cells and nanostructures...
...Like Parker, Auguste said that doing research that may have military implications arouses very little debate—especially compared to the embryonic stem cell work that comprises a significant portion of her lab’s activities...
...shook the region earlier this month. But the dispute is momentous for millions of people in Bolivia and Peru - where the coca leaf is sacred to indigenous culture and a tonic of modern life - and for anti-drug officials in the U.S. and other countries who are desperate to stem the relentless flow of cocaine. Says Silvia Rivera, a sociology professor at San Andres University in Bolivia's capital, La Paz, "This is the most aggressive attack [Bolivians] have faced" since the U.N. designated coca a drug...
...rapid global scientific race, the U.S. will need to ramp up domestic research support. Fortunately, the biomedical industry is receiving deserved attention at the state level. Last week the Massachusetts State House approved a $1 billion bill in support of the life sciences industry, which will fund research in stem cells, biomedicine, and biotechnology. State politicians such as Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 have recognized the immense value and promise that this industry holds. We urge senators and the Bush Administration to make an amendment to the proposed budget and increase federal funding for biomedical research. Innovation...