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Politics and Ethics

Scientists Paranoid about Losing Access to Baby Body Parts
January 15, 2017
...that this attack will be renewed. We Want Our Embryonic Stem Cells! Speaking of embryonic stem cells, Nature‘s Editors never stopped lusting for those, either, even though ethically-safe induced pluripotent...
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Media

Big Science Leans Pro-Death
January 3, 2017
...back the clock.” Yes, let us all make progress toward the death of personhood! But why even play with ESC’s (embryonic stem cells) when adult cells can be induced back...
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Biomimetics

Year-End Biomimetics Parade
December 31, 2016
...cells? (Nature Scientific Reports). Believe it or not, the seemingly useless debris from rice farming is finding a new use in solar power technology. “The morphology, structure and texture studies...
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Politics and Ethics

Big Science Blind to Its Political Bias
December 27, 2016
...money for unlimited research on embryonic stem cells, three-parent babies, aborted baby body parts – the whole works (see Science Magazine‘s tidbit about limitations on fetal tissue research from Planned...
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Cell Biology

Small Molecules Play Key Roles in Cells
December 26, 2016
...role in modulating the activity of the mTORC1 protein complex, which is a critical sensor of nutrient availability within cells.” The mTORC1 protein is a key target for understanding cancer’s...
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Human Body

Reasons for Thanksgiving in Your Body Cells
November 23, 2016
...enjoy a little basketball, baseball or football before dinner, be thankful that you have tiny scavenger cells that go around repairing microruptures in your muscle cells. First, the cells create...
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Biomimetics

Planning Your Next Revolutionary Invention
October 22, 2016
...the study of biological and other natural forms: shapes of plants, micro-organisms (e.g.: cells, bacteria and diatoms), small animals (e.g.: starfish), crystals, etc. Soft robots that mimic human muscles (Science...
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Health

Adult Stem Cells Continue to Promote Healing
October 15, 2016
...future,” Eirini P. Papapetrou looks back over the decade since the discovery that adult and induced stem cells can work as alternatives to the ethically-controversial embryonic stem cells: Ten years...
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Biomimetics

Inspiring Life Motivates Designers
September 17, 2016
Here’s the latest collection of bio-inspired designs brought to you by plants, animals, and cells. Speedy snail insulin (PhysOrg): We think of snails as among the slowest of animals, but...
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Darwin and Evolution

Non-Darwinian Biological Change
August 11, 2016
...share traits with worms? Alongside a photo of a flatworm, this article alleges that “Stem cells of worms and humans more similar than expected” in terms of introns and alternative...
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Health

Adult Stem Cells Continue to Show Promise
July 26, 2016
Ethical stem cells from adult tissues make more news than embryonic stem cells. Last month, Science Magazine retold the story of “How iPS cells changed the world.” The cells promised...
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Politics and Ethics

No Need to Tinker With Human Embryos
June 12, 2016
...of measurement, identical to embryonic stem cells (ES). ES cells have long been considered the “gold standard” of totipotency (ability to transform into any cell). Though stem cell researchers were...
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Media

A Media Bias Sampler
May 22, 2016
...report claiming that doctors want more of it. One group of doctors wants to take this system, built on lies and promises that didn’t come true, and extend it into...
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SETI

SETI Communication Only Outward So Far
May 19, 2016
...are too prone to atomic and electrical forces to have free will. Cells are extremely diverse, and they communicate profusely, yet only over limited areas, and without sentience as far...
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Politics and Ethics

Tinkering with Human Embryos More Brazen than Ever
May 5, 2016
...in growing stem cells into embryo-like structures, it could be difficult to determine whether the structures count as embryos, and thus are subject to the 14-day rule. “It’s an interesting...
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