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1 Bizarre DNA of Platypus tells a story about us Nation and World
More than 200 years later, a team of scientists has determined the platypus' entire genetic code. Down to its DNA, it turns out, the platypus continues to strain credulity, bearing genetic modules that are in turn mammalian, reptilian and avian.
5/8/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 Report urges huge changes to factory-farming practices Nation and World
The report, sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and released Tuesday, finds that the "economies of scale" long used to justify factory-farming practices are largely an illusion, perpetuated by a failure to account for associated costs.
4/30/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 Genetic-discrimination bill on way to passing Nation and World
WASHINGTON — Capping 13 years of political wrangling, the Senate today is scheduled to pass landmark legislation that would prevent employers and health-insurance companies from discriminating against people on the basis of genetic-test results.
4/24/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 Stolen laptop holds info on 2,500 patients Nation and World
NIH officials made no public comment about the theft and did not send letters notifying the affected patients of the breach until Thursday — almost a month later. They said they hesitated because of concerns that they would provoke undue alarm.
3/24/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 Invisibility: Soon to be the new black Nation and World
The material, made of hollow fibers, is a Roach Motel for photons: Light checks in, but it never checks out. By sucking up all surrounding illumination, it can give those who gaze on it a dizzying sensation of nothingness.
2/21/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 Lights at night tied to breast cancer Health and Family
WASHINGTON — Women who live in neighborhoods with large amounts of nighttime illumination are more likely to get breast cancer than those who live in areas where nocturnal darkness prevails, according to a study that overlaid satellite images of Earth onto cancer registries.
2/20/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 California company reports cloned human embryos Nation and World
WASHINGTON — Scientists at a California company reported Thursday they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults, a significant advance toward the goal of growing personalized stem cells for patients with various diseases.
1/18/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 USDA in no hurry to sell cloned meat Nation and World
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Tuesday asked U.S. farmers to keep their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as Food and Drug Administration officials announced that food from cloned livestock is safe to eat.
1/16/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 FDA's report says food from cloned animals safe Nation and World
WASHINGTON — A long-awaited final report from the Food and Drug Administration concludes that foods from healthy cloned animals and their offspring are as safe as those from ordinary animals, effectively removing the last U.S.
1/15/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 EU panel rates clones' meat and milk as safe Nation and World
WASHINGTON — The European Food Safety Authority on Friday said meat and milk from healthy cloned cattle and pigs is "very unlikely" to pose risks to consumers, opening the door to possible European sales of those controversial foods.
1/12/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 Big stem-cell advance fuels fight over ethics Health and Family
WASHINGTON — Scientists said Thursday they had created several colonies of human embryonic stem cells without harming the embryos from which they were derived, the latest in a series of recent advances that could speed development of stem-cell-based treatments for a variety of diseases.
1/11/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 FDA set to accept cloned meat, milk Nation and World
WASHINGTON — Having completed a years-long scientific review, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to announce as early as this week that meat and milk from cloned farm animals and their offspring can start appearing on supermarket shelves, sources said Friday.
1/6/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 As DNA research advances, science plays God ever more Business
WASHINGTON — It has been 50 years since scientists first created DNA in a test tube, stitching ordinary chemical ingredients together to make life's most extraordinary molecule.
12/24/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 Doctors: Face-transplant recovery "good" Health and Family
Isabelle Dinoire, who at age 38 lost her lips, cheeks, chin and most of her nose when she was mauled by her pet Labrador, blends into crowds and attends parties comfortably with the face she got from a 46-year-old brain-dead donor that surgeons attached like a mask in a landmark 15-hour surgery.
12/13/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 Report points to stem-cell breakthrough Health and Family
WASHINGTON — Using a newly developed technique for turning skin cells into stem cells, scientists have cured mice of sickle-cell anemia, the first direct proof that the easily obtained cells can reverse an inherited, potentially fatal disease.
12/7/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 Boston bioterror lab fails experts' scrutiny Nation and World
The report, by the National Research Council of the National Academies (NRC), is a significant victory for community activists and others who opposed construction of the $200 million biosafety level 4 laboratory, designed to study the world's most dangerous diseases.
11/30/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 E-mail surfaces about safety of meat treatment Nation and World
The tests, by Cargill and Hormel Foods, both of Minnesota, were part of a joint effort to persuade federal regulators to allow use of the gas without going through a public-approval process.
11/14/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 Broccoli may outperform sunblock Nation and World
New research suggests broccoli, the vegetable that the former president famously demonized as inedible, can prevent the damage from ultraviolet light that often leads to skin cancer. And as Bush would surely appreciate, he would not even have to eat it.
10/23/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 Happy birthday, here's a Nobel Nation and World
Working at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Ertl spent years exploring in painstaking detail the microscopic nooks and crannies between atoms on the surfaces of various materials and figuring out what happens when gas molecules nestle into those spaces.
10/11/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
20 British officials may approve hybrid embryos Health and Family
WASHINGTON — Capping a months-long scientific and ethics review, British regulators Wednesday said they were prepared to allow the creation of embryos that are part human and part animal for use in medical experiments.
9/6/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results