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Ones that got away - October 13, 2008

“You could sprinkle chemicals on cells and make stem cells.”
A paper in Nature Biotechnology is getting some stem cell researchers excited.

“If everyone accepted it right off the bat, I'd be shocked.”
Loren Babcock expects scepticism for his claim to have discovered the oldest fossil footprints in the world. On cue one expert tells National Geographic he is “deeply sceptical”.

“The nymphs are literally sucking the life out of the plant.”
The BBC reports on an insect that could be introduced to the UK to help control virulent Japanese knotweed. After all it worked for those cane beetles in Australia...

Like father like son
Video game deverloper Richard Garriott has followed in his NASA-astronaut father’s footsteps by going into space.

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