Posts Tagged ‘Integration’

New scaffold supports growth, integration of stem cell-derived cardiac muscle cells

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
These days people usually don't die from a heart attack. But the damage to heart muscle is irreversible, and most patients eventually succumb to congestive heart failure, the most common cause of death in developed countries.Stem cells now offer hope for achieving what the body can't do: mending broken hearts. Engineers and physicians at the University of Washington have built a scaffold that ...

Rachel Natelson: Athena Crossing the Potomac

Friday, July 10th, 2009
For the past few weeks, the anniversary of the birth of the modern gay rights movement has prompted renewed demands for the full integration of gays and lesbians into the military. Figures ranging from Gen. Shalikashvili to Barney Frank to a self-proclaimed conservative World War II spouse have all decried the obsolescence and inequity of Don't Ask Don't Tell, urging the President and Congress to repeal the law. Amid this chorus of voices, however, one community has remained resolutely s