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...more nerves might be repaired and can then potentially re-establish proper connections. Simply by working with the GRNOPC1 cells, Geron scientists have learned more about how they operate, which will expand their understanding of how the central nervous system might be healed. Says Geron's president and CEO, Dr. Thomas Okarma: "They make dozens of factors that can stimulate nerve function, growth and regeneration." (Read "Scientists Reach Stem-Cell Milestone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cautious Optimism for the First Stem-Cell Human Trial | 1/24/2009 | See Source »

Cheney, Dick • moving of own boxes by-and one can only wonder what was in them that required the personal attention of-results in pulled back muscle of • resemblance of to Dr. Strangelove (or Bond villain Blofeld, or Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life) is evoked by farewell appearance in wheelchair of • unhappiness of at Bush's failure to pardon Libby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

...very reassuring," says Dr. Douglas Dockery, one of the study's three authors and an environmental epidemiologist at Harvard's School of Public Health. "We can see some benefits from the regulations of air pollution that have been put in place in the past 20 to 30 years." (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Live Longer? Cut the Pollution | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...researchers separate the role that improved air quality plays from other factors? Very carefully. "The problem is," says Dr. C. Arden Pope III, the study's lead author and an epidemiologist at Brigham Young University, "if you consider every factor that extends life expectancy and add them up, you almost always end up with more than a 100% improvement." This is because many of the factors overlap, so scientists must take care not to count an extra week, say, as an extra two or three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Live Longer? Cut the Pollution | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...Aurélia’s Oratorio,” the figure also carries a hat and purse on her elevated feet. There is a strong sense of wonder to the production, but it maintains a dark undercurrent that makes it more the stuff of Edward Gorey than Dr. Seuss. And so “Aurélia’s Oratorio” manages to stay pitch-perfect, with a few exceptions. In one of the weaker moments, a disco ball appears onstage, and the generally unobtrusive score switches to an accordion-inflected circus song with fairly raunchy lyrics...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Oratorio' A One Woman Wonder | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

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