I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Sean Morrison, director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Michigan and one of the foremost experts on stem cell research, is leaving U of M for Texas — and he had some serious criticism for the Michigan legislature before he left.
Researchers at the University of Michigan have made a major breakthrough that could help other researchers around the world improve their protocols and prevent contamination as the grow new stem cell lines in the laboratory. AnnArbor.com reports on the details:
With a 25-12 vote the Republican-controlled state Senate has passed a bill that would require stem cell researchers to establish oversight committees and submit annual reports to the state. The new regulations are supported by anti-abortion groups. Critics say that the new rules are an attempt to override the 2008 constitutional amendment that lifted the [...]
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles announced yesterday they may have discovered a new weapon in the war against HIV. Scientists say they can engineer stem cells to act as a genetic vaccine of sorts, the Advocate reports.
The Lansing State Journal reports that two of the three major research universities in the state, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, are planning to expand their stem cell research programs in the wake of the passage of Proposal 2 earlier this month. Michigan State University is proceeding more slowly, forming an advisory [...]
The following results are as reported by MSNBC: District 1: Bart Stupak (D) is the projected winner, defeating Tom Casperson (R)
A referendum to liberalize limits on embryonic stem-cell research in Michigan has enough valid signatures to appear on the November ballot, according to The Michigan Bureau of Elections. Under the existing law, passed in 1997, it is illegal for researchers in the state of Michigan to create new embryonic stem-cell lines, limiting scientists only to those lines [...]
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