The I-Squared Act, the bill with the broadest support in Senate according to PandoDaily, would increase the number of STEM visas from 65, 000 to 115, 000 annually.
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The long timelines for drug development stem from a large number of factors, but one of the key reasons is that the FDA, largely in response to major drug problems with drugs like Rezulin and the Cox-2 inhibitors, has required larger and longer trials.
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Less than one-third of U.S. eighth graders show proficiency in mathematics and science, yet STEM jobs are expected to number eight million within the next five years and more than two million of these will be newly created positions that need to be filled.
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But it could reduce the large number of homicides that stem from impulsive acts that turn into tragedies.
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However, some experts say only embryonic stem cells can generate the vast number of cells needed to cure some diseases.
Professor Barry said data suggested that the number of cases where stem cells were retrieved from the cord cell bank was still quite small.
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By working together to encourage young women to pursue STEM careers, providing supportive learning environments, and by actively mentoring young women, we will slowly but surely increase the number of women in STEM careers.
Despite the fact that jobs experts predict growth in employment opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math will grow more than 7% faster than any other sector over the next five years, the number of women pursuing STEM education and career paths.
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In a small number of patients, a stem cell transplant can be curative, but the therapy can also be fatal, especially in older patients.
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Egli is among the handful of scientists who have been working to perfect the technique with human cells and in 2011, succeeded in producing human stem cells, but with double the number of chromosomes.
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The state has tried to stem the flow, steadily rolling back the number of residence permits given to newcomers.
Geron had injected stem cells into the spine of a small number of spinal patients to test safety.
These T-cells were converted into stem cells, which could dramatically increase in number when grown in the laboratory.
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This AAU initiative is the latest and most ambitious of a number of recent efforts to improve STEM education at the undergraduate level.
Let's start at the frenzied end of last week, when Floyd Landis seemed like cycling's version of Hans Brinker, trying to stem the flood of doping rumors with a number of media interviews.
We should help foreign graduates and foreign professionals, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, through an increased number of available H-1B work visas and a STEM green card program.
Only a dozen such cell lines had been published in academic journals, and the number shocked scientists who were afraid they would not have enough embryonic stem cells to work with.
Tuesday's rise appeared to stem from Ambac's comments that it is evaluating its strategic alternatives with a number of potential parties.
Professor Harry Moore, of the Centre for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Sheffield, UK, said there were a number of key differences between mice and human testes cells.
"I don't see it as a compromise, but as a transitional step" to a "full blown" policy of federally financing embryonic stem cell research, Doerflinger said, adding that if researchers found the experiments on the small number of cell lines promising, they would want to create even more cell lines, and that would create pressure to allow tax dollars to be used for more experiments.
In September, a number of technology organizations and businesses wrote a letter to Congress expressing their support for the STEM Jobs bill.
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She also said the plan might have the unintended consequence of reducing the number of students studying science, technology, engineering and maths - the so-called STEM subjects - because students tend to get higher grades in the arts and humanities.
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But Kosovo's few Serb leaders with the nerve to stay behind now seem likely to spurn the council, largely because western forces (plus a small number from Russia and the former Soviet Union) seem unable, so far, to stem a steady wave of revenge killings by Albanians.
The Scripps Research Institute team had already boosted the number of cells created with two compounds initiating a naturally occurring process that moves the cell nearer to a stem-cell like state.
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