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  1. Health & Medicine

    Drugs Counter Mad Cow Agent in Cells

    Fueled only by promising studies of cells, a California research team has invited controversy by beginning to give a little-used malaria drug to patients who have the human version of mad cow disease.

    By John Travis
  2. Humans

    Cloning hearing creates media frenzy

    A panel reviewing human cloning heard the pros and cons of the issue during a fiery debate.

    By John Travis
  3. Humans

    Bush favors some stem cell research

    President Bush said he would support work on stem cells that already had been propagated from embryos otherwise fated for disposal in fertility clinics, but he opposes financing the destruction of additional embryos to create new cell lines.