Pregnant women help in ethical study
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. Scientists have launched a two-year probe into the ethics of using for research tissue samples from pregnant women or...
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Canada opts for middle ground
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. American researchers seeking a more liberal terrain for stem-cell research could find a haven in Canada, where new...
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Bespoke spare parts
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. The promise of bespoke spare parts made from your own cells will require major advances in tissue engineering. The...
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US pours cash into UK bank
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. Millions of charity dollars raised in the United States are to back British embryonic stem-cell (es-cell) research in...
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Key patent open to challenge
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. A key stem-cell patent may ultimately prove invalid in Europe, according to a leading scientist, writes Steve Farrar...
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Different stances in law
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. More than 60 different human embryonic stem-cell lines have been developed from excess embryos created for in vitro...
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UK fair sparks melee in India
Indian enthusiasm for British higher education appears to be at fever pitch. Police were called in to control crowds at this month's education fairs. Security guards at a fair in Chennai (formerly...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel set in a leper colony: "The cabin passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel...
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A text in which robots run riot
Mechatronics and the Design of Intelligent Machines and Systems
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States of advanced excitement
Materials Modification by Electronic Excitation
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Search for common homeland?
The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture
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Catalogue of an ethnic mosaic
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
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Desert digs of a crime queen
Agatha Christie and Archaeology - The Life of Max Mallowan - Nimrud
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In the shadow of the cathedral
Michael Cooper fails to find the man behind the architectural icon. Most of the dozen or so biographies of Wren published since 1923, the bicentenary of his death, concentrate on his architecture....
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A scientific truth that is set in stone
What Evolution Is