It's like Christmas
Apr. 3rd, 2007 16:45![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillThe Patent Office revokes patents on human embryonic stem cells that some consumer groups and scientists say had stifled stem cell research.
The US Supreme Court rules that the Federal Government can regulate greenhouse gases, and must examine the link between climate change and those gases contained in the exhaust of new vehicles. This is a direct rebuttal to the EPA's assertion that regulation was beyond its authority, and its claim that it didn't have to take action even if it could.
New enzymes may be able to convert any blood to type O, solving many problems with blood supply and opening up all sorts of other advantages. (Rh factor is unaffected, but collapsing the supply from 8 types to 2 is still dramatic.)
Some days it's nice to read the news.
The US Supreme Court rules that the Federal Government can regulate greenhouse gases, and must examine the link between climate change and those gases contained in the exhaust of new vehicles. This is a direct rebuttal to the EPA's assertion that regulation was beyond its authority, and its claim that it didn't have to take action even if it could.
New enzymes may be able to convert any blood to type O, solving many problems with blood supply and opening up all sorts of other advantages. (Rh factor is unaffected, but collapsing the supply from 8 types to 2 is still dramatic.)
Some days it's nice to read the news.
