Dead Bodies for Live Crash Tests
Does GM use human bodies as crash test dummies? That's not the plot of a 1970s cult classic; it's the claim of one car-safety specialist in Sweden, who told newspaper Expressen that GM recently...
View ArticleThe Essential Guide to Stem Cells
For more than a decade, researchers have touted stem cells as the most promising advance in medicine since antibiotics. And this winter, when President Obama lifted the Bush administration's ban on...
View ArticleU.K. Launches a Largest-Ever Effort to Turn Genetic Info Into Better Medical...
Every day for the past three years, 600 or so additional British citizens file into medical offices around the country. They are responding to a letter, stamped “BioBank” in blue letters, that begins:...
View ArticleWorld's Most Powerful Laser Gets Government Go-Ahead
Who knew it would take so long to approve a project to build the world’s most powerful lasers? Lasers are awesome. But after reconciling some paltry funding issues, the European Commission finally...
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