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...Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science, the journal that published the study in question in March 2004, told TIME today that he will be publishing a correction in coming weeks concerning the source of the eggs, clarifying that the donors had not, as the study originally stated, all been unpaid volunteers. After that, he said, they will await the reports from the investigations conducted by the South Korean Ministry of Health and by Seoul National University, where Hwang is a faculty member, and where he will continue to do stem cell research, to determine whether the integrity of Hwang...
...Nanuet in Rockland County, New York, which is on his route home from work. He had been missing since last Wednesday night. The Clarkstown Police Department, which discovered the body, refused to comment on the case, and the death is still being investigated. However, Rockport’s The Journal News reported on Monday that police had found a book called “Final Exit,” a euthanasia and suicide manual, in the hotel room, as well as other evidence on a computer which indicated suicide. The cause of death seems to be suffocation from helium. Shahabuddin?...
Harvard affiliates and other scientists have identified a gene in mice that could lead to new treatments for anxiety disorders in humans. According to a study published in last week’s issue of the scientific journal “Cell,” a mutation in a single gene that controls production of the protein stathmin can embolden mice to make them more willing to explore and less likely to fear painful or dangerous stimuli. Vadim Y. Bolshakov—director of McLean Hospital’s Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory and associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical...
...second year in a row, Harvard has the highest yield of black students of any of the 22 universities that disclosed statistics to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. At Harvard, 69.2 percent of black students admitted to the class of 2009 decided to enroll, accounting for 9.3 percent of the freshman class, the highest percentage since the journal started recording statistics in 1992. “In summarizing, Harvard had a very good year, and I think whatever problems that did exist as a result of the controversy are a thing of the past,” said...
More than a third of cancer-related deaths worldwide can be associated with nine avoidable risk factors, a study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers has found. In a report published in the UK medical journal The Lancet, the scientists attributed 2.43 million cancer deaths in 2001 to modifiable factors, such as obesity, low fruit and vegetable intake, lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol, unsafe sex, and urban air pollution. HSPH Assistant Professor of International Health Majid Ezzati, the lead researcher of the study, said that smoking is the leading cause of death from cancer by some measures, making...