A. In the past, with humans absent, more intense competition for food between carnivores probably led to a need to eat kills quickly and completely, resulting in more broken fangs.
B. For the past eight years, America's government has declined to fund new research into one of the world's most promising medical technologies: the use of human embryonic stem cells to repair or replace damaged tissue in the diseased and injured.
C. Many observers do, however, see this research as a step along the road to reconnecting the brains and limbs of those with severed spinal cords, by vowing new nerve cells to bridge the gap.
D Both ISCo and Advanced Cell Technology, of Los Angeles, are trying to create stem cells that could stop-and possibly reverse-a process called macular degeneration, which leads to blindness