The new professor is currently working on how stem cell technology can help in treating burns.

BBC: Prof Iain Whitaker

After months of debate, the French Cabinet took on the proposal despite past declarations of support from Jospin for the technology's potential benefits in treating and curing disease.

CNN: France forbids human cloning

As well as the Higgs Prize and a number of other initiatives, this week the government will be announcing the appointment of 33 new health fellows to conduct research into medical challenges such as treating motor neurone disease, how to use technology to help people with diabetes and how to control internal bleeding.

BBC: Scotland

Through technology, specialists train and support nonspecialists in treating people with mental illness and addiction, a lethal combination that often leads to suicide.

CNN: America has to tackle its suicide problem

"We have to learn how to say to each other: 'Technology has created a situation where we are treating each other as though we were stalkers, but I don't want to think of you that way, '" Dr. Turkle says.

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