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How can journals improve peer review of cloning papers?

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Robert Lanza, MD, and several other scientists recently participated in a discussion on “How can journals improve peer review of cloning papers?”
Read the whole post, as well as Robert Lanza’s opinion at Nature.com.

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Will Biology Solve the Universe?

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Source: Wired.com

“The answer to the universe is biology — it’s as simple as that,” says Dr. Robert Lanza, vice president of research and scientific development at Advanced Cell Technology.

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MSNBC Cosmic Log: Theory of Every-Living-Thing

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Source: Msnbc.com

Robert Lanza, vice president for research and scientific development at Advanced Cell Technology, sets forth his view on the quest for a unified cosmic theory in “A New Theory of the Universe,” an essay appearing in The American Scholar.

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In New Method for Stem Cells, Viable Embryos

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Source: New York Times, By Nicholas Wade, Gardiner Harris and Carl Hulse

Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells from an early human embryo without destroying it. This method, if confirmed in other laboratories, would seem to remove the principal objection to the research.

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Stem Cell Test Tried on Mice Saves Embryo

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Source: New York Times, By: Nicholas Wade

Scientists have devised two new techniques to derive embryonic stem cells in mice, one of which avoids the destruction of the embryo, a development that could have the potential to shift the grounds of the longstanding political debate about human stem cell research.

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Seven Days of Creation

Thursday, January 1st, 2004

Source: Wired.com, By Wendy Goldman Rohm

DAY ONE 5:10 pm
It’s late on a Sunday afternoon and nearly dark inside the tiny, windowless lab; fluorescent light is said to be bad for human embryos. I’m sitting beside Robert Lanza, medical director at Advanced Cell Technology.

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