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| Life after death |
| A British lab is ready to clone embryos for stem cells. Stephen S. Hall reports |
| Every year, about 500 women
come to the Newcastle Fertility Centre, an assisted reproduction clinic in the
heart of this northern industrial British city. They walk under a large, exuberant
sign in primary colours that reads ‘Life’ (the ‘f’ in the
shape of a chromosome), past a cafe called ‘Twist’ (the ‘i’
in the shape of a double helix), amid throngs of children parading to the nearby
science museum, and then into the bright yellow Life Bioscience Centre building.
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| Nicotine addiction gateway spotted |
| Some people find it easy
to get rid of the nicotine habit while others have to struggle. A new study by
US scientists has pinpointed a gene that plays a crucial role in nicotine addiction.
It may also explain why some people find it easy to kick the habit while others
just can’t give up despite many attempts ... | Read.. |
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| Souvenir dinosaur |
| To the casual observer,
an adult alligator afloat in an algae-dappled pond, its 6-foot body motionless
save for the sporadic darting of its devilish amber eyes, might conjure up any
number of images, none of them fuzzy-wuzzy. A souvenir dinosaur.... |
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| Better than a mouse |
Using your nose to move the cursor on a computer screen is not the kind of idea that just pops into your head. ?It didn?t occur to me in the middle of the night,? admitted Dr Dmitry . Gorodnichy, a computer vision scientist with the National Research ... | Read..
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| QED:
Selling scare |
Speculations whether foreign health data were wrongly used to build up a scare in India and promote the interests of hepatitis B vaccine producers now turn to deep suspicions. Correspondence between medical experts, including letters published last w ... | Read.. |
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When health officials in the US discovered a few years ago that several gay men
who tested positive for syphilis all met sexual partners through the same online
chat room, the incident highlighted what many health experts feared: Trysts arranged
on t ... | 
