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August 23, 2005

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Fusion Might End Need for Embryo Cells
The Baltimore Sun, Aug. 23 -- A Harvard scientist who led experiments that transformed skin cells into stem cells said yesterday that the technique could lead to ways to dispense altogether with the use of human embryos - but it could take a decade to accomplish. When embryonic stem cells were fused with adult skin cells, the stem cells, in effect, taught the more mature cells to act just like them. (Cites Dr. Judith Swain, dean of translational medicine at UC San Diego and a stem-cell expert). More

The Evolving Clash of Darwinists and Doubters
International Herald Tribune, 23 August 2005
Debate over intelligent design is this question: Can a scientific explanation of the history of life include the actions of an unseen higher being? The proponents of intelligent design, a school of thought that some have argued should be taught alongside evolution, say that the complexity and diversity of life go beyond what evolution can explain. Early vertebrates like jawless fish are thought to have had a simple clotting system involving a few proteins that made blood stick together, said Russell Doolittle, a professor of molecular biology at the University of California at San Diego. More

Net asset?
San Diego Union/Tribune, Aug. 23- Some 93 million Americans, 80 percent of adults using computers, go online each year to learn about health and medicine, according to a 2003 study by the Pew Internet and American Life project. And 38 percent of older adults find it very or somewhat difficult to judge whether what they find there is reliable, according to the Merck Institute of Aging and Health. (Quotes UCSD Dr. Thomas Kipps, deputy director of Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center and Dr. Joe Scherger, family and preventative medicine at UCSD). More

UCSD Police Choose ImageWare Product
North County Times, Aug. 23 -- ImageWare Systems, which develops identity management solutions, has been chosen by the UC San Diego Police Department and the town of Easton Police Department in Maryland to implement the company's IWS Law Enforcement System with Livescan. More