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20 Years After Dolly, The Temptation To Clone Humans

Though the technology now exists to clone humans, and mercenaries are at the ready if allowed, most of the mainstream geneticist community points to other ways to get life-saving stem cells.

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In Swiss Lakes, Scientists Search For The Source Of Immortality

Tiny freshwater hydrae have incredible powers of regeneration. In the quest for human longevity, researchers in Switzerland are trying to learn from their very little and long lives.

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Nobel Prize For Medicine Goes To UK, Japan Researchers Of “Pluripotent” Stem Cells

GUARDIAN (UK), NOBEL COMMITTEE (Sweden) Worldcrunch STOCKHOLM – The 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to British and Japanese researchers who, decades apart, helped show that mature cells can be pluripotent, the Nobel committee announced Monday. “John B. Gurdon discovered in 1962 that the specialization of cells is reversible,” noted the press release announcing […]

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