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DNA: Promise and Peril
Linda L. McCabe and Edward R.B. McCabe, Univ. of California Press, 2008, 339 p., $39.95.
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What’s the Big Idea? Four Centuries of Innovation in Boston
Stephen Krensky, Charlesbridge, 2008, 64 p., $18.95.
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Out of the Blue
John S. Friedman, Delacorte Press, 2008, 290 p., $24.
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Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump, DK Publishing, 2008, 208 p., $25.
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From Science News Letter, September 13, 1958
RNA INFLUENCES CELL DIFFERENTIATION — Ribonucleic acid has been pinpointed as having an essential role in cell differentiation, the process by which the early embryo’s look-alike cells become nerve, bone, skin and other organs. Working with extremely small quantities of cellular material, 20 to 50 cells, taken from embryonic newt and salamander tissue, Dr. M. C. Niu […]
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Science Future for September 13, 2008
September 7–9 The first INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics. To be held in Stockholm. Visit www.neuroinformatics2008.org Sept. 21–Nov. 2 The walk-through Spider Pavilion opens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Visit the museum’s website at www.nhm.org Sept. 27–Oct. 12 Wired magazine’s NextFest in Chicago’s Millennium Park showcases global innovations. Visit www.wirednextfest.com
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Letters
Disturbing numbers I found the “Sizing up science” Science Stat (SN: 8/2/08, p. 4) somewhat disconcerting with regard to the opinion about medicine. Basic medical research, in which ties to pharmaceutical companies and the like are not limited, may be “scientific” in the usual sense, but once you enter the arena of clinical research, the […]
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Protecting the Internet from the criminal element, by Eugene Spafford
From the September 13, 2008 issue of Science News.
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Potent Promise: Essential Stemness
Scientists move closer to understanding the dual fates of embryonic stem cells — to divide or develop.
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It’s Likely That Times Are Changing
A century ago, mathematician Hermann Minkowski famously merged space with time, establishing a new foundation for physics; today physicists are rethinking how the two should fit together
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Potent Promise: Back to the Womb
Reverting adult cells to an embryonic state without creating embryos is a tricky business.
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