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Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management with VMware
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LED tech helps ease chemo's side effects (photos)
Originally developed in the early 1990s to promote plant growth onboard space shuttles, new LED technology is helping to soothe the painful side effects from chemotherapy and radiation treatment...
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Policy was the topic ZDNet Healthcare readers hated in 2009
Many of my policy posts disappeared under an avalanche of criticism. Criticism of the Obama Administration, criticism of the Congress, and criticism of me for daring to cover it as anything else...
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Patents the new threat to stem cell research
It's time to apply the lessons learned in the long fight over software patents to genetics.
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Lasker Awards show controversy of basic science
Taken together this year's Laskers show medical controversy at every stage of the process -- research, marketing, and public action based on established science. The Foundation committee members...
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The cells from Brazil against Type I diabetes
Patients first boosted their supply of stem cells in the blood, so they did not need to be harvested from bone marrow. The immune systems in these stem cells were then suppressed, and the cells...
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Stem cell dam broken?
Are approvals of stem cells now just benefitting our global competitors? Will President Obama formally change course? And do these therapies work?
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We can change your cells and cure your diabetes
Transforming cells through the injection of genes is a very big deal. While it will take some time to prove, and even more time to reach the market, it's a true medical revolution.
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Will clones end the abortion debate?
If a fertilized egg is a human life, because that fertilized egg could become a human being, what are these new blastocysts Stemagen of San Diego created?
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Stem cell debate to continue regardless
Pulling a single cell from an 8-cell embryo is a neat trick, but it won't end the debate.
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Can a no-star movie move the stem cell debate?
Dr. Chawla is trying to ask those people, if your life were on the line, or your child's, would you die, or let them die, rather than support research you consider unethical? The movie may...
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Yamanaka reopens stem cell debate
Republicans and anti-choice advocates, from President Bush on down, have argued that the new discoveries mean use of human embryos can and should be abandoned. They feel Yamanaka's success...
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Political and scientific values in health care debates
As medical science advances, more and more of our choices become political and, ultimately, moral. Moral systems differ in their views on stem cells. A morality which rejects stem cell research...
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Seeking advantage in U.S. stem cell controversy
So far political pressure has not slowed the progress of U.S. science on stem cells. But if the latest breakthrough does give political opponents an upper hand, there are lots of other places to go.
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Stem cell finding does not end debate
Shinya Yamamata cautioned that the new stem cells haven't been fully tested, and they were produced using retroviruses, even cancer genes, which would make the resulting tissue unsuitable for...
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Is the stem cell debate over?
Word that scientists have succeeded in turning skin cells into stem cells has gone across the world like a thunderclap.
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Artificial cartilage just five years away
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou believes he can create artificial cartilage for knee joints, jaws and similar applications within five years
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Photo: Bioreactor at work
Newly discovered cells can develop into body tissue, potentially curbing ethical debates over the use of embryonic stem cells.
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Photo: Bioreactor at work
Newly discovered cells can develop into body tissue, potentially curbing ethical debates over the use of embryonic stem cells.
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Stem Cell Research: The Hope, the Reality & the Future
At a Churchill Club event on July 13, entitled "Stem Cell Research: The Hope, the Reality & the Future," Silicon Valley VCs, a biopharmaceutical executive and a pioneering stem cell scientist...
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LED tech helps ease chemo's side effects (photos)
Originally developed in the early 1990s to promote plant growth onboard space shuttles, new LED technology is helping to soothe the painful side effects from chemotherapy and radiation treatment...
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