Since my childhood, growing up in rural Arkansas (yes, a paradise for a wide variety of blood-loving organisms) I have believed that the only value of ticks was to get paid for removing them from a neighbor’s dog. In Arkansas, you get paid by weight not by the piece (just kidding, of course). [...]
Stem cells, or more specifically “induced pluripotent stem cells,” have done it again! An article in today’s Japan Times newspaper reported that University of Tokyo researchers have managed to coax this amazing transformer into yet another piece of the complex human puzzle. Kidney, pancreatic, cardiac and even nerve cells have already become old news in the rapidly-expanding [...]
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