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16 year-old Texan leaves hospital with mechanical heart assist device

A 16 year-old Texas boy has left the hospital after being equipped with a partial mechanical heart: "When I first saw him, he was very short of...
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Pseudoscience in Healthcare Reform Bill?

The healthcare reform battle is discouraging enough. Democrats, elected by a landslide in 2008 n a platform of...
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Embryonic stem cell suit dismissed

Good news for science and medicine, via my old friend Ed Brayton at Dispatches From the Culture Wars: The U.S....
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Bill Maher and Vaccination

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I'm a big Bill Maher fan. He's an atheist, a tireless advocate for science against the religious right, and he's...
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The profit motive

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Forty years ago, I went to a tiny elementary school in the far outskirts of town. Six rooms, six teachers, six...
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Synthetic life near says biotech pioneer

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Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, are hard at work perfecting a technique to...
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Let God sort them out

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Two fairly controversial scientists have filed a case against the National Institute of Health claiming the use of...
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The amazing flip-flopping Republicans

I'm lucky. Both my parents are in their eighties, but despite a few scares over the years, they're both in...
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Senate saves world from human-animal hybrid clones

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Here's to fighting the mermaids and centaurs over there so we don't have to fight them here. Via Keith Olbermann...
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New embryonic stem cell guidleines released

Hundreds of new embryonic stem cell lines, once deprived of federal funding by a Bush Administration restriction, will now be funded and used to study...
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