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...even if the procedure turns out to be safe for the embryo, there remains the very real question of what quality stem cells the technique would produce. Some studies suggest that even at the eight-cell stage, when the blastomere, or single cell, is removed, the embryo has already embarked on a development path, and has assigned certain lineages to each of the eight cells; if that's the case, then the stem cells derived from a particular blastomere may already be restricted to becoming just specific types of cells - and may not be useful in generating...
...glinted from under the table paper. It was a Leatherman Wave - a multipurpose tool that held a small knife along with a dozen other implements. Did I want to make a big deal of our tech being left alone with a possible weapon? They had the guy, she was safe and there was enough trouble around here tonight. I slipped the Leatherman into the pocket of my white coat...
When hundreds gather for Thursday's Kentucky Governor's Annual Ham Breakfast at the state fair, it's a safe bet that the draw will be the prized ham - which last year brought a record $340,000 at auction - and not Gov. Ernie Fletcher. The governor, whose 2003 election capped nearly a decade of prior Republican gains in the once-Democrat-dominated state, finds himself with few friends and a growing list of potential challengers from within his own party. His tenuous re-election prospects - and the distancing from Fletcher by the state's Republican chieftain, Senator Mitch McConnell - suggest...
...always successful. In 2002, Buck had a narrow escape. He had helped moved "a lot of people" of people out of China and into South Korea by then, his daughter says, and his organization had been infiltrated by an informant. Chinese authorities raided one of Buck' s safe houses and arrested a group of refugees en route to South Korea. Buck' s apartment in Yanji, in northeastern China, was searched, but he was out of the country at the time and escaped capture. His family pleaded with him not to return -- to no avail...
...insurgents know to disappear when the U.S. military arrives. Past experience shows that once the soldiers move on, the violence returns. After three days of extended curfews and intensive patrolling in Amariyah, a mainly Sunni neighborhood that was controlled by jihadi groups, the U.S. last week declared the area safe and ended the cordon-and-search operations. But residents say the jihadis had simply melted away before the operations began, and fully expect them to return...