The bill would release up to 55, 000 green cards for immigrants completing post-graduate degrees in a STEM field at U.S. research universities.
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Girls and boys will perform similarly in earlier education settings, but once entering college, girls are less likely to choose a STEM field as their area of specialization.
And of course having role models like Sandberg and Mayer for young girls who are considering going into the STEM field can often be a very powerful thing.
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Since every foreign student who graduates from a U.S. university with an advanced degree and stays here in a STEM field creates on average 2.62 American jobs, this initiative helps us all.
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It will also require concerted focus on the retention of STEM majors during the initial years of college because, today, fewer than 40 percent of students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field complete a STEM degree.
Dr Michael West is another leading figure in the field of stem cell research.
The research could put pressure on big drug companies to wade into the ethically complicated field of stem-cell research.
They said research using adult stem cells, the field each of them works in, has more potential to help patients.
Another example is the very extensive field of stem cell therapies.
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However, as more becomes known about the relatively new field of stem cell therapy, a more specific matching system may be required, said Dr. Joon Lee, cardiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Most of the people who were copied are somehow linked to the biotech industry, and many are linked to the especially controversial field of embryonic stem cell research.
It is Sir Martin's role, however, that is of most interest, for he discovered what are now known as embryonic stem cells and thus opened a field of endeavour that has had political as well as medical ramifications.
Why is the field of sustainability unattractive to STEM candidates if CSR is just another term for scientific systems thinking?
The other interesting aspect of the stem-cell link is that it was inspired by work outside the mainstream of the huge cancer-research industry: stem-cell research is now a huge field in its own right.
To the shock of the hundreds of researchers who now work with embryonic stem cells, the judge agreed and plunged the field into confusion.
The company announced improved first-quarter refining margins and said it had made significant progress in efforts to stem a natural-gas leak on its Elgin field platform in the British sector of the North Sea.
Even saying that two-dozen of them are embryonic stem cells seems overly optimistic to some scientists in the field.
This field is slowly gaining steam just as Geron is abandoning stem cell work.
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And progress has been glacial in this field, partly because of all the political controversy about embryonic stem cells and partly because the science is very very difficult and the Food and Drug Administration has been cautious about letting studies start.
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Supporters of ongoing stem cell research -- which is controversial enough on its own because some existing stem cell lines were created from cells extracted from aborted fetuses -- say the field of study holds the promise of reversing or even curing many diseases.
The technique used by Green and Hollister is part of a burgeoning field called regenerative medicine, which involves engineering therapies -- using things like stem cells, or "body parts" constructed out of biological material -- to harness the body's ability to heal itself.
The availability of so many types of stem cells to so many researchers so cheaply should dramatically accelerate the pace of research in the field.
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Mass producing stem cells to screen drugs and study the progress of disease is not the sexier side of the field.
Now, the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly adopting stem cells for testing the toxicity of drugs and identifying potential new therapies, say those in the field.
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