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Genetics and Health

November 21st, 2006

New Scientist 50th Anniversary Special 1956-2005

After my post yesterday, I hightailed it down to my local newsagent to pick up the 50th anniversary issue of New Scientist. Then I hunkered down at the restaurant next door for some breakfast and delicious science reading.
Oops. Did I put “delicious” in front of the wrong noun?
This issue is cool not least because […]

By Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD -- 0 comments

December 15th, 2005

Therapeutic Cloning Was a Fraud

One of the year’s biggest stories in bioscience appears to have been make-believe. In May, scientists in South Korea announced they’d been able to clone eleven embryonic stem cell lines containing the DNA of patients who suffered from diseases such as Parkinson’s, diabetes, and spinal cord injury. The hope was that the cloned […]

By Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD -- 5 comments

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