鈥淐ures may be some years off, but this vote does mean we can use hybrid embryos in our search to understand Alzheimer鈥檚, Parkinson鈥檚 and motor neuron disease.鈥�
Chris Shaw of the Institute of Psychiatry in London applauding the vote by UK members of parliament to legalise creation of 鈥渁dmixed鈥� embryos combining human and animal genetic material (The Times, London, 20 May)
鈥淚 like to eat bear meat almost every winter, can鈥檛 go without it. It is almost like taking the cow away from the white folks.鈥�
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Indigenous Alaskan Aalak Nayakik, who like other Inupiat people relies on bears for food and warmth. He is worried that the US decision to list polar bears as a threatened species might mean a hunting ban (Reuters, 16 May)
鈥淚鈥檝e lost all remnants of hope. I look at my life as if it is a prison term. I just have to serve each day.鈥�
Diabetes patient Jonathon Simchen of Fife, Washington, whose kidneys and pancreas have failed, on being refused organ transplants because he has used medical marijuana (Los Angeles Times, 19 May)
鈥淭he albatross chicks weigh up to 10kg鈥� the mice weigh just 35g. It is like a tabby cat attacking a hippopotamus.鈥�
Geoff Hilton of the UK鈥檚 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on supersized mice, which are killing rare birds on Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean (The Guardian, London, 20 May)
鈥淚t appears the White House played a significant role.鈥�
Report of the US House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee alleging the White House pressured the Environmental Protection Agency into reversing support for laws in various states to limit car emissions (The Boston Globe, 20 May)