Science Report

Monday, June 18, 2007

Devout doctor writes prescription for the stem-cell research debate
By Gautam Naik
The Wall Street Journal Europe
18 Jun 2007

ONE MORNING IN APRIL, Dr. Donald Landry, the interim chairman of Columbia University’s department of medicine, boarded a 3 a.m. train from New York to Washington, D.C. He was there for an unfamiliar kind of meeting: Though he’s neither a political... read more...

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Ambassadors of the soul
by Simon Ings 322pp, Bloomsbury, £17.99 by Stuart Clark 415pp, Oxford, £35
The Guardian
02 Jun 2007

After Albert Einstein died of a ruptured aorta on April 18 1955 his brain was removed for medical research. What is less well known is that his ophthalmologist, Henry Abrams, also took out the great physicist’s eyes. Quite why he did so is unclear. To... read more...