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August 11th, 2005 Research by McGill-affiliated Douglas Hospital Research Centre in Montreal demonstrated that mothers who breastfeed respond less to stressful situations than those who bottle-feed their children. These findings suggest these mothers may be better able to care for their children.

March 25th, 2009 WELLINGTON - A New Zealand teenage whiz-kid who admitted developing software that infected a million computers around the world has been hired by telecommunications company TelstraClear to advise companies how to avoid hackers. Owen Walker, 19, who was tracked down by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, is advising on 'botnets' - networks of computers infected by malicious software - TelstraClear spokesman Chris Mirams told Radio New Zealand Wednesday.

August 24th, 2005 With stem cell research legislation still making its way through Capitol Hill, U.S. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, toured local research facilities yesterday to highlight advances already made as well as the need for further federal funding.

March 12th, 2005 The Government today said: "The UN declaration is non-binding and has no legal status, but it calls on countries to prohibit all forms of human cloning. This is totally unacceptable to the UK government which strongly supports stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research which involves the use of cloning technology.

February 14th, 2005 Way to go Missouri! Your consciousness should be the beacon light for the rest of the country. Lets all join the effort to free the world of diabetes and other genetic diseases.

July 2nd, 2005 We have forked of our coverage of Stem Cell Research news and views in our recently launched The Stem Cell Blog. You will find it much more active than it was under the folds of multi-faceted Simple Thoughts Blog.

August 24th, 2005 A Korean husband-and-wife scientist team has made headway in adult stem cell research by discovering a gene in charge of differentiating the parent cells in human bodies. “Up until now, researchers have dug up many factors involved in the differentiation of adult stem cells.

December 3rd, 2003 Q. Are we playing God in attempting to clone humans? No, but we sure are playing God in trying to decide what God wants, in trying to ban cloning. Last I checked God hasn't delegated anyone the responsibility to be his mouthpiece! If God doesn't wan't cloning, being omnipotent as he is, he will not make it happen.

July 18th, 2005 You may be a genius but that doesn't assure you of living happily when it matters most, when you are old and vulnerable than ever before. Not so intelligent people take heart.

July 21st, 2006 Dr. Charles Hux, MD, high risk Ob/Gyn and a geneticist, commented on the stem cell veto by US President Mr. Bush and the impact of stem cell research.

March 21st, 2005 Researchers from North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Manhasset, N.Y. have identified a gene which expresses as a protein called macrophage migration inhibitory factor, or MIF.

August 28th, 2006 The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by US biologists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's. Sony has teamed up with US biologists who already run the distributed computing project, folding@home (FAH).

April 13th, 2005 San Francisco emerged as the early front-runner to land California’s new $3 billion stem cell headquarters after its incentive-laden bid scored the highest marks among the four cities named to a short list of contenders. The institute plans to build at least a 17,000-square-foot office with a maximum of 50 employees who will help dole out nearly $300 million in research grants annually.

March 23rd, 2005 "Positron Emission Tomography is being installed at AIIMS next month, through which we will get the final proof of our work on heart patients. All the patients would be screened for finding how viable our work was and would also study various heart tissues of the patients metabolically," Dr P Venugopal, director AIIMS, said.  "We also plan to inject stem cells directly into the pancreatic arteries of patients suffering from diabetes," he says.

February 26th, 2005 Sen. Matt Bartle, a Lee's Summit Republican has sponsored a bill in the Mossouri legislature banning stem cell growth procedure. Economically that would mean Stowers Institute would be forced to look elsewhere for an estimated $250-300 million expansion, backed by Stowers' $2 billion endowment fund.