IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients' somatic cells.
Researchers should always consider ethical concerns on scientific research and disclose their data to the public. Scientists also need to discuss issues surrounding their research with those who are concerned.
For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair.
According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths...
You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice. The Nature of Emotions (2001)
It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
