The New York Times, Time magazine. The division over stem cell research was in the news again, as patient advocates -- including Nancy Reagan, who recently spoke in favor of the research at a diabetes event -- lobby President Bush to relax the limits on federal financing for the research. Irving Weissman, MD, the Karel and Avice Beekhuis Professor of Cancer Biology and director of the Institute for Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, discussed the issue in the Times; Paul Berg, PhD, the Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor, weighed in on the issue in this week's Time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/politics/06STEM.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040517-634688,00.html

Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News. From the petri dish to the bush, Robert Sapolsky, PhD, also got some ink on a recently published paper on a troop of savanna baboons in Kenya. Sapolsky, the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor, found that the baboons became kinder and gentler over time -- a finding that contradicts the notion that violence and aggression in humans and primates are inevitable. The Journal discussed his work, as did the Morning News.
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/news/healthscience/stories/050304dnlivbaboons.c5b9.html

San Francisco Chronicle. Buzz about Stanford's new cancer center continued this week, as the Chron ran an article on the center and its services. Richard Hoppe, MD, the Henry S. Kaplan-Harry Lebeson Professor of Cancer Biology, was quoted.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/07/PNG6P6FH521.DTL