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Scientists create human embryos to make stem cells

2013-05-15 17:43:00

For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells — a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of...

California frogs once used for pregnancy tests carry deadly fungus

2013-05-15 14:45:00

Frogs that were imported for pregnancy tests and set loose in California carry a deadly fungus responsible for wiping out vast numbers of amphibians worldwide, scientists have found. Populations of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) have thrived...

Children's brain mass counts for better math skills

2013-04-30 13:36:00

Forget your third grader’s IQ, or working memory, or even previous mathematical abilities. When it comes to improving in math, it’s the brain’s hard wiring that counts. Researchers found that the volume of the hippocampus, a region...

Silicon Valley is beginning to see 'delight' in a new light

2013-05-10 07:00:00

PALO ALTO — Ask Joshua Reeves about his online payroll service, and the last thing he'll want to discuss are its features and algorithms and software code and all that other cold jargon that usually comes pouring out of the mouths of Silicon...

Herbert Blau dies at 87; theater director helped shape CalArts

2013-05-09 22:48:00

Herbert Blau, an influential theater director, theorist and scholar who helped shape CalArts during its early years, died at his home in Seattle on May 3, his 87th birthday. He had cancer, according to the Seattle Times. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born...

Radioactive tuna from Fukushima? Scientists eat it up

2013-05-08 16:24:00

Marine biologist Dan Madigan stood on a dock in San Diego and considered some freshly caught Pacific bluefin tuna. The fish had managed to swim 5,000 miles from their spawning grounds near Japan to California's shores, only to end up the catch of local...

Tom Bartman dies at 67; helped end forced busing in L.A. schools

2013-04-24 19:27:00

Tom Bartman, whose election to the Los Angeles Board of Education in 1980 gave board conservatives a majority for the first time in years and helped spell the end of mandatory school busing in the sprawling district, died Monday at his home in Beverly...

Study identifies genes linked to Alzheimer's in African Americans

2013-04-09 13:30:00

One complaint leveled against genome studies is that they don't survey a broad enough swath of humankind. Though many projects have searched DNA collected from people of European descent -- hoping to ferret out which changes in what parts of the genome...

iPads in school: a toy or a tool?

2013-04-27 17:15:00

At Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills, every student has an iPad. That's 1,200 iPads, and if L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy can figure out how to pay for 660,000 more of them, every student in the district will have a tablet in the next...

Video: See a cell reach out and touch its neighbor

2013-04-29 06:02:00

Using specialized imaging techniques and customized microscopes to watch single embryonic chick cells in real time, scientists at Stanford University and UC San Francisco found that the developing cells reach out to one another to communicate -- extending...

Stanford and edX to improve online learning platform

2013-04-02 21:00:00

Stanford University and edX, the online education group that is providing free classes worldwide, are announcing a new collaboration to expand and improve edX’s underlying platform and allow open access to it. The move, to be formally announced...

Air pollution linked to birth defects in San Joaquin Valley, study says

2013-03-28 15:26:00

Researchers have linked air pollution and birth defects among�pregnant women in the San Joaquin Valley, according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine. The study looked at women�between 1997 and 2006, including 806 whose pregnancies were...

Researcher Terry Storm in a stem cell lab at Stanford University. California's stem cell agency, CIRM, has funded research at dozens of institutions, but has come under fire for governance issues.

2013-01-25 21:13:26

Dr. Douglas R. Dirschl has been appointed chairman the newly created department of orthopedic surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine. He comes to Chicago from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, where he has been chairman and the Frank C.

2013-01-02 17:36:00

Alvin Roth, a Harvard Business School professor who is currently a visiting professor at Stanford University, reacts during an economics class after receiving a toast from students for being awarded a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

2012-11-13 16:54:00