NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Part-Human, Part-Animal Embryos Plus 4 More Stories

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Shots - Health News NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Part-Human, Part-Animal Embryos The National Institutes of Health is proposing to fund experiments that create chimeras of human and animal cells while also imposing restrictions in response to ethical concerns. Read this story Politics Donald Trump Might Be In Real Trouble This Time The freewheeling personality that had been a wellspring of success has become a gusher of miscues and offenses — at precisely the wrong time. Read this story Politics Libertarian Candidates Pitch Themselves As Antidote To Partisanship "We want the government out of your pocketbook and out of your bedroom, and the polling shows that a majority of Americans think that," vice presidential nominee Bill Weld said in a CNN town hall. Read this story The Two-Way Daily Fantasy Sports May Soon Be Coming Back To New York State DraftKings and FanDuel suspended operations there after the state's attorney general argued they were essentially gambling sites. A new state law declares fantasy sports to be games of skill. Read this story Goats and Soda Anthrax Outbreak In Russia Thought To Be Result Of Thawing Permafrost Russia is experiencing its first anthrax outbreak in more than 70 years. One child died. Health officials think it might have been triggered by warming permafrost, which unleashed dormant bacteria. Read this story

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