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...study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reveals that about 23% of the hearts donated for transplant in the U.S. come from people with no health insurance--who probably couldn't have afforded a transplant (cost: nearly $400,000) had they needed...
...Hwang and his team of researchers at Seoul National University stunned the medical community in May when, in a study published in the U.S. journal Science, he reported that he had successfully produced tailor-made stem cells from 11 cloned human embryos-an unprecedented feat. Though controversial, Hwang's research was hailed as a breakthrough because it appeared to move scientists a step closer to being able to treat a variety of afflictions, from spinal-cord injuries to Alzheimer's, by using a patient's own dna to grow perfectly matched tissue to restore defective or damaged organs...
...this week, embattled South Korean cloning pioneer Woo Suk Hwang finally held a press conference on Friday. Before a packed room at Seoul National University, Hwang defiantly denied multiple allegations that he had fabricated the results of his history-making stem cell study published earlier this year in the journal, Science. During his lengthy statement, he blamed his compromised results on the possibility that his stem cell lines were switched at some point. He didn't elaborate on how or why the switch occurred...
...stem cells." He also asked Science to withdraw his paper because of these lapses may have compromised his data. Editors at Science confirmed that they have received requests from both Hwang and a co-author, Dr. Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh, to withdraw the paper. The journal requires all 25 co-authors to agree to a retraction, and Hwang said the remaining requests were forthcoming...
Stephen Hamblett ’57, a former Kirkland House resident who joined The Providence Journal immediately after graduating the College and worked his way up to publisher of the newspaper, died Tuesday at Rhode Island Hospital. He was 71. The cause was a blood clot in the brain, Hamblett’s son told The Boston Globe. As the Journal’s publisher and chief executive for nearly 12 years, Hamblett oversaw the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage in 1994 of corruption and patronage in the Rhode Island state court system. A long-time friend...