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A group of scientists has criticized government regulatory procedures for adversely impacting progress in stem-cell research and is demanding the red tape be reformed. The group of researchers at Kyoto University and the Riken research institute, part of the science ministry, leveled the criticism in Friday's issue of U.S. science magazine Cell Stem Cell.

WASHINGTON ? Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key administration posts: ? Phillip Carter, Ambassador to the Republic of Cote d?Ivoire, Department of State ? Gerald Feierstein, Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen, Department of State ? Peter Michael McKinley, Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, Department of State President Obama said ...

CORVALLIS ? Felicia Cohn, director of medical bioethics for Kaiser Permanente Orange County, will speak on health care reformat 7 p.m. Thursday, May 6, at Oregon State University.

The American Academy of Pediatrics suggested that doctors be given permission to perform a ceremonial pinprick on girls if it would keep their families from sending them overseas for circumcision.

Nine years after clearing out his office at 1 Nassau Hall, University president emeritus Harold Shapiro GS ?64 isn?t thinking about retirement just yet. ?It had always been my stated objective that I did not want to retire as president; I wanted to retire as a faculty member,? Shapiro said in an interview at his only slightly smaller office in Wallace Hall, which he occupies as a Wilson School ...