New Entry by Alfred Ivry on April 18, 2008.] Muslim philosophers considered the quest for knowledge as a divine command, and knowledge of the soul, and particularly of the intellect, as a critical component of this quest. Mastery of this
Angelo Hill has no doubt he left his mark. The Casper College women's basketball coach says he didn't accomplish every goal he set, but he conquered the first -- and biggest -- one that was given to him.
Today's events Boys soccer: Buffalo at Lander; Evanston at Natrona County; Gillette at Laramie; Powell at Jackson; Sheridan at Riverton; Star Valley at Kelly Walsh; Torrington at Scottsbluff, Neb.
BOYS Monday's games Buffalo 2, Sheridan 1 Laramie 1, Cheyenne Central 0 Tuesday's games Gering, Neb., 3, Torrington 1 Worland 3, Lander 2 Wednesday's game Cheyenne East 4, Cheyenne Central 2 Thursday's games Cody at Worland (n) Green River at
Shvarts told classmates that she had herself artificially inseminated as often as possible for much of this past year, then took legal, herbal abortifacient drugs and filmed herself in her bathtub cramping and bleeding from the miscarriages. She said her
The network builds on cancer research centers first established in 2002 to bring laboratory advances quickly to patients. Each center will receive $4 million from the Department of Health and Cancer Research United Kingdom to develop new treatments. (Associated Press)
Under the initiative, the Pentagon launched the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine made up of two teams -- the first led by Wake Forest University in North Carolina and the University of Pittsburgh and the second led by Rutgers
The U.S. government will soon begin collecting DNA samples from all citizens arrested in connection with any federal crime and from many immigrants detained by federal authorities, adding genetic identifiers from more than 1 million individuals a year to the
Without using an egg, researchers have been able to reprogram certain mature cells back to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, a new report says. (HealthDay)
British scientists are to spearhead an attempt to preserve the genes of a rhino in captivity by using a technique that mixes its skin cells with the embryos of a close cousin, the southern white rhino, which is not so
Last week in Discoblog, we discussed a case involving a 15-year-old boy, Alex Koehne, whose undiagnosed lymphoma was spread to four other people through the transplanting of his organs. Two of the organ recipients have died, and the other two
The world risks "scientific apartheid" between rich and poor countries unless research and technology is better used to benefit the poor, says one of Africa's leading science experts. (SciDev)
