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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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Cell Biology

Adult Stem Cells Lead Health Progress
July 20, 2002
51; Adult stem cells (AS) and induced pluripotent stem cells from adult tissues (iPS) continue to rack up tallies over embryonic stem cells (ESA).  Do we really need the embryonic...
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Amazing Facts

White Blood Cells Walk to Infection on Tiny Legs
May 20, 2002
51; How do white blood cells know where to go when infection strikes?  The cells have tiny little feet and crawl like millipedes, against the blood stream, if necessary, following...
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