" Indiana leaders who banked on life sciences to generate high-income jobs and prestige a decade ago say the state hasn't achieved all it envisioned but has taken steps in the right direction. "

" The European Court of Justice said in a statement: "The use of human embryos for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes which are applied to the human embryo and are useful to it is patentable.

" "But their use for purposes of scientific research is not patentable."

" It added: "A process which involves removal of a stem cell from a human embryo at the blastocyst [early embryo] stage, entailing the destruction of that embryo, cannot be patented." "

" The researchers, along with 26 others hired into new positions in the past five years, are the fruits of the university's continuing campaign to bring aboard grant-winning and commercially minded professors in fields selected because they align with the state's existing economic strengths, such as medical devices and computer gaming. "

" A defense of the humanities on the grounds that they enrich education is not sufficient to justify parity between the sciences and humanities. More than enrichment is involved when education is oriented around promoting a critical attitude toward the circumstances of our common life. We need to remember that the humanities provide crucial knowledge about our social nature, knowledge that would be eliminated in an extreme version of a STEM-dominated core curriculum. "

" For the third time since 2007, researchers, legal experts and vendors gathered Tuesday for StemCONN — a bustling mix of science, commerce and cautiously hopeful conversation about the ever-changing field of stem cell research. "

" Despite those hardships, said Mr. Wilson in his talk, success stories are unfolding in several states, led by Texas, Arizona, Oregon and, most recently, New York. All, he said, have chosen to orient their university research operations to the needs of the semiconductor industry, winning their states thousands of jobs in the process. "

"A few decades ago, medical schools did not have extensive financial dealings with industry, and faculty investigators who carried out industry-sponsored research generally did not have other ties to their sponsors. But schools now have their own manifold deals with industry and are hardly in a moral position to object to their faculty behaving in the same way. A recent survey found that about two thirds of academic medical centers hold equity interest in companies that sponsor research within the same institution.[6] A study of medical school department chairs found that two thirds received departmental income from drug companies and three fifths received personal income.[7] In the 1980s medical schools began to issue guidelines governing faculty conflicts of interest but they are highly variable, generally quite permissive, and loosely enforced."