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Dinosaurs

Soft Tissue from Dinosaurs Found: Intact Cells and Blood Vessels
March 24, 2005
...of Science.1     The bone contained remnants of blood vessels that were still soft and flexible when separated from the matrix, and even individual cells: “osteocytes with internal cellular...
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Politics and Ethics

Stem Cell Research Launches into the Ethical Unknown, Full Steam Ahead
February 8, 2005
...out in the fanfare over embryonic stem cells.  EurekAlert reported that a new source of stem cells in umbilical cord blood shows promise for bone marrow transplants and tissue repair,...
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Health

Adult Stem Cells Continue to Work Miracle Cures
October 27, 2004
Chalk up two more amazing successes for adult stem cells (not derived from human embryos, like the controversial ES stem cells): 1. Blindness:  The BBC News reported that stem cells...
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Politics and Ethics

Scientific Supporters of ES Stem Cell Research Fear Future Abuses
October 21, 2004
...ES stem cells have no track record: “Will therapeutic cloning create immune matching?  It’s unclear.  At this point, we don’t even know if human embryonic stem cells are safe, let...
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Politics and Ethics

Do ES Stem Cells Prevent Heart Disease?
October 8, 2004
...number of therapeutic successes,* embryonic (ES) stem cells have only been promised to do so – until now.  In Science Oct. 8,1 Cornell scientists coaxed embryonic stem cells to prevent...
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Politics and Ethics

Big Science Portrays Embryonic Stem Cell Issue as Political Litmus Test
September 27, 2004
...Science Update reported on stem cells from adult bone marrow being used to prevent a form of blindness, and the 08/27/2004 headline discussed adult stem cells being used to treat...
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Politics and Ethics

Letter: The Case Against Embryonic Stem Cell Research
September 3, 2004
...to execute this program, the embryo has no moral status.  I think he has it backwards.  The scientist who destroys an embryo to harvest stem cells commits a wrong, for...
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Politics and Ethics

Adult Stem Cells Might Restore Hearing
August 27, 2004
...undermine research on embryonic stem cells. While adult stem cells continue to rack up successes, can anyone point to a clear case of embryonic stem cells doing any good?  If...
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Cell Biology

How Cells Build Hard Parts
July 26, 2004
...of molecular biology, protein chemistry, nucleation thermodynamics, and crystal growth.  Some organisms build minerals inside cells, outside cells, or between cells.  Davis found one example particularly attractive to the materials...
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Health

Stem Cell Cover-Up?
May 24, 2004
Stem cells, most have heard, hold promise for many life-saving cures.  Michael Fumento in Insight Magazine claims that while adult stem cells have shown many positive results, the media and...
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Amazing Facts

Elaborate Quality Control Governs the Cell’s Protein-Folding Factory
December 20, 2002
If it weren’t for quality control in our cells, we’d be dead.  That’s the gist of an amazing Insight article in the Dec. 18 issue of Nature.1  “Aberrant proteins are...
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Cell Biology

Cells Find Signal in the Noise
December 20, 2002
...Cells have a novel way of meeting this challenge, as two Japanese mathematical biologists discuss in PNAS.1  Cells are continuously sending and receiving chemical messages, a process called signal transduction. ...
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Cell Biology

Stem Cell Breakthrough
November 20, 2002
...to work with human skin cells.     If this technique bears fruit with real treatments, it could end the need for embryonic stem cells.  National Geographic, however, said it...
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Cell Biology

Subway System Found in Immune Cells
September 20, 2002
...new way for immune cells to communicate with one another: long, narrow tubes that enable them to connect and exchange molecules.”  These subway tunnels between cells pass molecules quickly from...
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Cell Biology

“Genomic Junk” Is Cell’s Air-Traffic Control
July 20, 2002
...can and do play a leading role.”     Speaking of differences in brain cells and liver cells, another article on Science Daily smashed a paradigm: “DNA Not The Same...
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