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Mind and Brain

Built-in Brain Designs that Amaze Scientists
August 31, 2015
...has important role in support cells for the retina (Science Daily): Remember Müller cells, the waveguides that transfer photons directly to the photoreceptors (see 2/27/15)? They rely on a receptor...
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Health

Adult Stem Cells Coming of Age
August 22, 2015
...Xpress says, “The strategy depends on first reprogramming the patient cells to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and then introducing a gene that differentiates the iPS cells to muscle cells.”...
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Politics and Ethics

Trafficking in Human Parts Nothing New
August 2, 2015
...voted against it. Embryonic Stem Cells We’ve reported scientists affirming that ethically clean iPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cells derived from adult tissues) work just as well as embryonic stem...
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Media

Science Site Rationalizes Sales of Baby Body Parts
July 18, 2015
The video that shocked the nation—Planned Parenthood selling fetal organs—is whitewashed by a science website. This is a story about how evil can be spun to be not quite so...
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Politics and Ethics

Bioethics: Into the Storm Without an Anchor
June 14, 2015
...Fetal cells were injected into a man’s brain to try to cure his Parkinson’s disease. “It takes cells from at least three fetuses to treat each half of the brain.”...
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Dating Methods

Dino Soft Tissue Confirms Creationist Prediction
June 10, 2015
...is consistent with potential preservation of the original quaternary structure of the protein.” Blood cells were found. Though shrunken in size, this confirms Schweitzer’s original claim of finding blood cells....
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Genetics

CRISPR Opens Pandora's Box
June 5, 2015
...impact on the ecology. Cells could be weaponized for biological warfare. And the prospect of “designer babies” looms larger than ever. One doesn’t have to look too far down that...
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Early Man

Neanderthal News and the Limits of Organic Material Survival
May 13, 2015
...ago. And if Neanderthal man’s DNA was already decaying beyond recognition, and Iceman’s red blood cells were hard to recover, that means that the red blood cells found in a...
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Genetics

Epigenome Project Finds Symphony in Cells
February 21, 2015
...research into how chromatin architecture is reorganized during stem cell differentiation. A paper about transcription factor binding dynamics during embryonic stem cell differentiation. A letter about using epigenetic footprinting to...
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Politics and Ethics

Adult Stem Cells Beat Clones
November 24, 2014
...of these aberrations than embryonic stem cells derived from an unfertilized human oocyte, or than embryonic stem cells derived from leftover IVF embryos,” Science Daily says. “These findings suggest that...
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Human Body

Sex Cells: The Evolution (or Design) of Genitalia
November 6, 2014
...of all proteins made by the body). In “Amaze balls: Testicles site of most diverse proteins,” Andy Coghlan noted one unexpected result: The proteins in our cells and tissues are...
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Human Body

The Cures Are Inside You
October 22, 2014
...reported. It appears that the stem cells could be embryonic or induced pluripotent stem cells; either way, the stem cells appear able to create the pancreatic beta cells necessary to...
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Mind and Brain

The Machinery Behind the Senses
October 21, 2014
There’s a lot of physical work our eyes, ears, and brain cells perform to support our perceptions of the world. Blind man’s bluff: There’s only a small area of sharp...
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Biomimetics

Robots Imitate Life
October 11, 2014
...Reeve was campaigning primarily for embryonic stem cell research, but this article says nothing about it. The focus is entirely on bionics – technologies imitating nature. Reach out and touch:...
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Politics and Ethics

Findings Spur New Ethical Challenges
September 16, 2014
...adult cells to their embryonic state, called induced pluripotent stem cells. A paper in Science Magazine appears to treat embryonic stem cells (EC) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) equally,...
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