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The Center for Equal Opportunity’s Roger Clegg has a blog post up at Minding the Campus about the Duke study I blogged about on Monday. His is a great title and sums up the main objection nicely: No Research, Please, Unless It Helps Our Cause The study revealed that white students enter college with higher [...]

Any legislation that slows human embryonic stem cell research is likely to also seriously harm the study of induced pluripotent stem cells, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford… This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks! Stem Cell Research

New research is using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) technology to make heart cells from skin cells specifically to study certain genetic mechanisms of heart diseases. The goal is to offer a… This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks! Stem Cell Research

To Reprogram Stem Cells Penn Study Eliminates The Use Of Transcription Factors And Increases Efficiency 100-Fold Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have devised a totally new and far more efficient way of generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), immature cells that are able to develop into several different types of cells [...]

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal posted a blog item about a study that shows students have found ways to game the Texas Top Ten Percent plan. The study was released a couple of months ago, and I blogged about it here. An excerpt: “Regardless of a high school’s academic ranking, a Texas high school student [...]

“As new figures from the Census tell us, the United States is becoming an increasingly racially and ethnically diverse nation — with a population that doesn’t fit neatly into the racial boxes constructed for ‘diversity’ purposes. So why is it that some universities and other institutions continue to use the old paradigm of granting preferences [...]

On Monday, I linked to and blogged about the Center for Equal Opportunity’s (CEO) recent study that showed Miami University and Ohio State University (OSU) admitted blacks with lower grades and scores than whites and Asians. In an interview with Roger Clegg about the study, an NBC4 reporter asked the following: “Ohio State is, afterall [...]

Estrogen can reduce the risk of breast cancer. Their work shows that estrogen is capable of reducing the number of breast cancer stem cells, which may explain the lower aggression of the tumor and, as a consequence, the possibility of a better prognosis. stem cells – Yahoo! News Search Results Stem Cell Research Pros and [...]

There’s a lot of things I like about science. The search for truth and reason, the struggle to avoid personal bias, and the attention to detail in methodology. And the mind-bogglingly awesome things that are figured out through science. I mean, I really love science. Of course, science is really hard to do well, because [...]