A Sampling of Clips for 
January 26, 2005

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N.J. Gov. Urges Bush to End Stem-Cell Restrictions
Reuters, Jan. 25-New Jersey's Acting Gov.Richard Codey on Tuesday urged President Bush to lift restrictions on federal funding for stem cell research given a recent report that says that available human embryonic stem cells are contaminated. Citing UCSD research released on Sunday in the journal nature medicine. Codey said the available stem cells were contaminated with an animal molecule and may not be suitable to treat people. More

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Hopes Come with Challenges
USA Today, Opinion, Jan. 26-I want to clarify several important scientific issues that have been raised in discussions this week about a UCSD study in the February 2005 issue of Nature Medicine. (Article written by Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health, which controls federal stem cell research funding.) More

Anti-Smoking Effort Sees Progress
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 26-Cuts in funding for anti-smoking ads and programs may reverse the current progress of anti-smoking campaigns, critics say. (Quote by Dr. David Burns, a UCSD medical school professor.) More

Annus Mirabilis
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 26-Albert Einstein has come to epitomize scientific genius. Over 76 years, Einstein made myriad contributions to physics and the world in general, but it was in a single year - 1905 - that he changed science and history in ways no one has before or since. (Quote by Craig Callender, a professor of philosophy at UCSD.) More

Questions Answered
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 26-Q & A column by Sherry Seethaler, a UCSD science writer and educator who answers science questions submitted by San Diego Union-Tribune readers. More