Editorial: Organs, made to order
Producing fully functional human organs using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) will, in the foreseeable future, cease to remain
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Editorial: Fear unfounded
With Britain recently deciding to proceed with draft regulations on the mitochondria replacement technique for preventing women from transmitting mitochondrial
Read MoreThe great continental divide on scientific issues
Published in The Hindu on September 23, 2010 Is the evolution theory equipped to explain the variety of species found
Read MoreEditorial: Ideology ruins science
Published in The Hindu on September 7, 2010 Human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research in the United States has hit
Read MoreHwang Woo Suk – down but not out
After becoming the pride of South Korea and gaining worldwide fame due to his `seminal’ work on human embryonic stem
Read MoreEditorial: Milestone in stem cell research
Published in The Hindu on August 1, 2009 Research on reprogramming adult cells to make them behave like embryonic stem
Read MoreHas the war directed at science ended?
Published in The Hindu on May 28, 2009 Informed consent, one of the most frequently used expressions in clinical trials,
Read MoreEditorial: Ending the war on science
Published in The Hindu on May 6, 2009 One of the significant promises made by Barrack H. Obama during his
Read MoreEmbryonic stem cell research winter ends
Published in The Hindu on March 12, 2009 By signing an executive order, President Barack Obama on March 9 has
Read MoreA decade of embryonic stem cell research
Published in The Hindu on November 13, 2008 Medical science got a big boost when James Thomson of the University
Read MoreEditorial: New hope for stem cell research
Published in The Hindu on November 8, 2008 The seven-year embryonic stem cell research winter brought about by George W.
Read MoreEditorial: Beyond the primate barrier
Published in The Hindu on December 26, 2007 By successfully cloning monkey embryos and producing two lines of embryonic stem
Read MoreEditorial: A fine initiative
Published in The Hindu on October 24, 2007 The recent announcement of a public-private partnership by three Europe-based pharmaceutical companies
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