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Great news from the mom of a child with diabetes (cord blood)

There’s a great comment today from the mom of a boy whose Type 1 or Juvenile Diabetes is being treated with cord blood: Darla Lindenmayer said… My son so far has been the oldest to participate in the cord blood trial. We are excited how well it is working. My son has gone from 5 … Continue reading

>WhyVille – Virtual Biotech for Children

>According to the San Antonio Express News, the Texas Workforce is helping to teach children to handle credit and the importance of developing vaccines: n Texas, Whyville recently received grants totaling $440,000 from the Texas Workforce Commission to build Whyville Biotech and Whyville Advanced Manufacturing Center. The site’s designers created Whyville Biotech to teach kids … Continue reading

WhyVille – Virtual Biotech for Children

According to the San Antonio Express News, the Texas Workforce is helping to teach children to handle credit and the importance of developing vaccines: n Texas, Whyville recently received grants totaling $440,000 from the Texas Workforce Commission to build Whyville Biotech and Whyville Advanced Manufacturing Center. The site’s designers created Whyville Biotech to teach kids … Continue reading

>An oldie but a goodie – new conversation

>The November 2006 post, “Beyond Belief: the Institutional Delusion of Scientism” commenting on the Belief net symposium on science and religion has a new life – with comments. Paul Booth has left a new comment on your post “Beyond Belief: the Institutional Delusion of Scien…”: “If you ask me (or read this far in the … Continue reading

An oldie but a goodie – new conversation

The November 2006 post, “Beyond Belief: the Institutional Delusion of Scientism” commenting on the Belief net symposium on science and religion has a new life – with comments. Paul Booth has left a new comment on your post “Beyond Belief: the Institutional Delusion of Scien…”: “If you ask me (or read this far in the … Continue reading

>Science retracts another

>There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the scientific review process does work. Science is retracting (all of these Science and Nature articles are behind a paywall) an article that has been proven to include forged photographs, due to the questions about these photographs from other researchers. Although the actual research … Continue reading

Science retracts another

There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the scientific review process does work. Science is retracting (all of these Science and Nature articles are behind a paywall) an article that has been proven to include forged photographs, due to the questions about these photographs from other researchers. Although the actual research … Continue reading

>Hwang "blew it"

>From Fowler’s Health and Science Update comes another lesson in hubris and the old saying about tangled webs and deception: Disgraced Korean Cloner Blew It: He Did Make HistoryA new report by a team of US researchers says the human embryonic stem cells generated in a now-discredited experiment in South Korea, actually were a first. … Continue reading

Hwang "blew it"

From Fowler’s Health and Science Update comes another lesson in hubris and the old saying about tangled webs and deception: Disgraced Korean Cloner Blew It: He Did Make HistoryA new report by a team of US researchers says the human embryonic stem cells generated in a now-discredited experiment in South Korea, actually were a first. … Continue reading

>Doctors, faith and helping the poor

>The Chicago Tribune published an article on a study concerning doctors who help the poor. I haven’t read the actual article, yet, but I wonder how the “poor” are defined and question the definition of “religiosity” vs. spiritual. For one thing, I’m not sure how, as a Family Physician, I would separate my patients into … Continue reading

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