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AP Photo/Bill Wolf) NU Board of Regent Jim McClurg of Lincoln, left, takes notes during public testimony Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, at the regent's monthly meeting in Lincoln, Neb., regarding the expansion or restriction of embryonic stem cell research as...
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Milliken is recommending no action be taken to change its policy on embryonic stem cell research. Milliken told the Board of Regents on Friday that such research holds great potential to cure disease, as well as opportunities for University of Nebraska...
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Four Stanford University School of Medicine scientists won a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute that could be worth from $30 million to $40 million over seven years. The researchers will join the “Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium,”...
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British automaker Rolls-Royce Plc has committed to expand fuel cell research and development at its North Canton operations, a move the state says will triple the automaker’s work force at the northeast Ohio site. Gov. Ted Strickland said in a release...
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Jay-Z recalled he was in Los Angeles, California, preparing for an album release, as the 9/11 attacks unfolded in New York. He told reporters that as he watched the aftermath of the attacks from the other coast he "saw the strength of New York and it...
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Australia who allow their eggs to be harvested for embryonic stem cell research should be paid for the procedure, an academic says. Professor Loane Skene, from the University of Melbourne's faculty of law, argues the surgery required for egg extraction...
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Nineteen anti-abortion demonstrators were arrested at Notre Dame as the South Bend, Ind., university prepared for President's Barack Obama's visit, police said. The protesters, who were not students, were arrested Saturday when they entered the campus,...
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To some, the idea of welcoming a prominent supporter of abortion rights into one of the nation's premier Catholic institutions defies the very principles on which that institution was founded. After a groundswell of opposition from conservative laity,...
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Two Montgomery County firms, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland are among the recipients of nearly $19 million state funding for stem cell projects. The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission has granted awards for 59 projects, out...
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Gov. Brad Henry late Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have made it a crime for a scientist to perform any form of embryonic stem cell research...The Tulsa and Oklahoma City chambers of commerce and others had urged Henry to veto House Bill 1326. "It's...
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