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Two months after the Capitol Hill insurrection, this remains very relevant. https://t.co/XgEOhVbyS8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Green hydrogen can replace the natural gas, diesel, and gasoline used in ships, trucks, buses, and cars. https://t.co/HmxGMrU4DQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Transhumanists believe that technology can be used as a tool to tweak and enhance the human body. Meet some of them in this photo essay. https://t.co/r5MMxKU4Rc — PolitiTweet.org

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The past can offer technologists some much-needed guidance and humility. https://t.co/mPMUfM0Gqf — PolitiTweet.org

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What does progress mean to you? We asked activists, entrepreneurs, historians, and economists how they define this deceptively simple term. https://t.co/lYgzPBruFk — PolitiTweet.org

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Lightning may have been a key component in making phosphorus available for organisms to use when life on Earth first appeared about 3.5 billion years ago. Phosphorus is essential for making DNA, RNA and ATP, the energy source of all known life. https://t.co/zYctpR8V4j — PolitiTweet.org

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A large project underway to disease-proof pigs using CRISPR shows that gene editing might be able to give humans inborn “genetic vaccines” against the worst infectious diseases they might encounter. https://t.co/kJ4EZgg76Z — PolitiTweet.org

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[SPONSORED] New research: Asia-Pacific survey respondents report they’re laying out new work-from-home policies to improve employee engagement during the pandemic. Learn more: https://t.co/ngEY5btyzK. (With @VMware) https://t.co/ucR7cPtTfP — PolitiTweet.org

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Did Ender’s Game get the science right? https://t.co/QrDi4F6Lpx — PolitiTweet.org

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Artificial intelligence is already creating real harm, just not in the ways most people would expect. The good news is the fight back has begun. https://t.co/p7l2KzXILS — PolitiTweet.org

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His argument: older Americans live too long in a diminished state, raising the question of, as he put it, “whether our consumption is worth our contribution.” https://t.co/xXe1eimQxF — PolitiTweet.org

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[SPONSORED] To build a green future, there are really only two business cycles in which to take action. Which countries will succeed? Explore the data: https://t.co/h7daDtW6VZ. (With @Citrix @MorganStanley @Salesforce) https://t.co/4ZzFjkvTWi — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @_KarenHao: I will be talking about my Facebook story with @niallfirth & @Reillymj next week at @techreview's AI conference EmTech Digit… — PolitiTweet.org

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The content in this thread was originally reported and written by @antonioregalado. It was repurposed for Twitter by @Benji_Rosen and @ivoryganja. https://t.co/tuGHAU1jFO — PolitiTweet.org

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👀 READ more about how the @ISSCR plans to drop the 14-day embryo rule—and what bioethicists and scientists think about it. https://t.co/tuGHAU1jFO — PolitiTweet.org

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A spokesperson for the @ISSCR, an influential professional society with 4,000 members, declined to comment on the change, saying its new guidelines would be released this spring. — PolitiTweet.org

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The @ISSCR has prepared draft recommendations to move such research out of a category of “prohibited” scientific activities and into one that can be permitted after ethics review and depending on national regulations, according to several people familiar with its thinking. — PolitiTweet.org

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By allowing both normal and artificial embryos to continue developing after two weeks, the end of the self-imposed limit could unleash impressive but ethically charged new experiments on extending human development outside the womb. — PolitiTweet.org

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Researchers can also now create embryo-like structures starting even from stem cells, and some hope to follow these synthetic embryo models well past the old two-week line. https://t.co/SGcsmrlopO https://t.co/cWvzUeArKl — PolitiTweet.org

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The action would come at a time when scientists, including the researchers in Israel, are making remarkable progress in growing embryonic cells and watching them develop. https://t.co/fwcwGZ04Id — PolitiTweet.org

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Now, however, the International Society for Stem Cell Research, or @ISSCR, is ready to do away with the 14-day limit. — PolitiTweet.org

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The rule, which is law in some countries and a guideline in others, has provided a clear signal to the public that scientists wouldn’t grow babies in labs. It gave researchers clarity about what research they could pursue. — PolitiTweet.org

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For 40 years, scientists have agreed never to allow human embryos to develop beyond two weeks in their labs. That is the point at which a spherical embryo starts to form a body plan, deciding where its head will end up, and when cells begin taking on specialized missions. — PolitiTweet.org

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This new research comes at a pivotal time: as technologies for manipulating embryonic life accelerates, a key scientific body wants to get rid of the biggest stop sign on stem cell research. https://t.co/AOLOuawMwt — PolitiTweet.org

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(2/2) @jacob_hanna believes lab-grown embryos could be a research substitute for tissue derived from abortions, and possibly a source of tissue for medical treatments as well. — PolitiTweet.org

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(1/2) Growing human embryos in the lab for that long, deep into the first trimester, would put science on a collision course with the abortion debate. — PolitiTweet.org

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“This sets the stage for other species,” says @jacob_hanna, a developmental biologist at @WeizmannScience, who led the research team. “I hope that it will allow scientists to grow human embryos until week five.” — PolitiTweet.org