It's a question that I hear frequently and I guess will hear even more often after the latest research from scientists at the University of Oxford.

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Some scientists even want to create entire new life forms from scratch.

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Unfortunately, no victory big or small will save Sofia and her peers from their fate: Scientists who have studied the area say even if spraying stopped completely today, it would take a few generations to decontaminate the water and soil, and for any lingering health impacts to fade away.

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Scientists savaged the study and even anti-GMO academicians distanced themselves from its blatantly poor level of scholarship.

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The heads of the company, non-scientists, then decide to pull the plug from neuroscience research when we have not even started yet.

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From the data gathered by Curiosity's meteorological station, scientists think dust-devils may even have run over the mobile laboratory.

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Even the anti-nuclear Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that at most 50, 000 people may die prematurely from the accident.

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It turns out that scientists at UCLA have found a way to prevent these clumps from forming, prevent their toxicity and even break up existing aggregates.

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Scientists and even some anti-abortion rights Republicans are urging the president to finance experiments on stem cells from human embryos, charging the research could lead to revolutionary treatments for diseases such as Parkinson's, diabetes and some forms of cancer.

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