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...recent breakthrough in stem cell research by seven Harvard affiliates could revolutionize treatment for diseases such as leukemia, for which the only existing cure is bone marrow transplant...
...unquantifiable sum far beyond what we might provide with a tax from the endowment. “If the endowment were smaller, we would have to do less,” she noted, and then connected this “less” to a string of unassailable endeavors: stem cell research, public service schools, the arts, global engagement, and sustainability. The endowment, in other words, serves noble causes, and thus deserves protection from the government’s greedy redistributive hands...
Chetty said it took him a year to weigh different options before deciding that Harvard is the place to go for him and his wife, who will be conducting stem cell research as a post-doctoral fellow...
...Okonjo-Iweala grew up with a passion for geography. According to Onyinye, Okonjo-Iweala initially disliked economics, an aversion that she suggested may stem from the fact that Okonjo-Iweala’s father, Chukaka Okonjo, was an economist...
Melton, a widely respected researcher known for his full-throated advocacy of embryonic stem cell research, published a study earlier this year showing that an adult cell can be transformed into a different type of cell without first returning to an embryonic state...