News: Senate okays expanded stem cell funding Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 18th July 2006 08:59 PM GMT] In a largely symbolic victory for biomedical research, the Senate today (July 18) approved a controversial bill (HR 810) to extend Federal research funding to newly derived human embryonic ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: What do you mean by ?embryo?? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 16th July 2006 09:53 PM GMT] ?It?s how we describe the thing that almost makes more of a difference than what it is.? These words, from Patricia Alt of Towson University in Maryland, are particularly applicable to hot ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: Civility and civil disobedience Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 14th July 2006 12:48 AM GMT] The Bioethics & Politics conference hosted by the Albany Medical College got off to a bang today, not a whimper. As participants trickled in, networking and finding old friends, another, uninvited group calmly ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story

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