Stem cell research holds promise for improving the quality of human life - especially embryonic stem cells, which can potentially develop into any tissue in the human body. However, basic scientific problems still remain unresolved - but Tel Aviv University researchers are leading the way to inventive solutions. "In order to use embryonic stem cells as a reliable and safe therapeutic tool, we ...

WASHINGTON, June 10 / Standard Newswire / -- During the time that Elena Kagan served as a top domestic policy advisor for President Bill Clinton (1997-1999), she played a key role in shaping and executing the President's response to the development of new cloning technology.

A computer science professor uses textual analysis of articles to beat the market. The ability to predict the stock market is, as any Wall Street quantitative trader (or quant) will tell you, a license to print money. So it should be of no small interest to anyone who likes money that a new system that works in a radically different way than previous automated trading schemes appears to be able ...

Reflecting European resistance to genetically modified crops, local people remain divided on the Amflora potato, which is being grown for its starch, not for food.