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November 29th, 2014 | by
MuslimScienceBattery could allow poor nations to turn heat to power By Paula Park A low-cost battery that converts heat into electricity may help reduce obstacles to generating power in remote areas of developing countries. A lot of heat is...
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November 12th, 2014 | by
MuslimScienceThe moment has finally come. Six billion kilometres and 10 years into its mission, on Wednesday a spacecraft will attempt to place a lander on a speeding comet for the first time in history. The European Space Agency’s £1bn...
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MuslimScienceTokyo: Japanese researchers have successfully implanted lab-grown retinal tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) into a woman in her 70s – the world’s first recipient of stem cells. In a two-hour procedure,...
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MuslimScienceAn intersection of bioethics and epigenetics in policy, practices, and science affecting the Muslim World: a case for a wider definition. by Brian Marlatt The intersection of bioethics and epigenetics is a meeting of the...
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MuslimScienceBy Saman Ansari Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another patient’s body (located somewhere else), to replace the recipient’s damaged or absent organ. This has improved the quality of...
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MuslimScienceBy Yasmin Pascual Khalil The ability to have children has always been an important aspect of the lives of many. For Muslim Middle Easters and others as well, having children is highly desired, as parenthood is culturally...
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MuslimScienceBy Paula Hammond For centuries, science and religion have been viewed as opposing schools of study – one dealing with the physical and quantifiable and one with the spiritual and unknowable. However, recent work on stem...
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MuslimScienceby Abdulaziz Sachedina Biomedical ethics is a burgeoning academic field with complex and far-reaching consequences. Whereas in Western secular bioethics this subject falls within larger ethical theories and applications...
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MuslimScienceby Mohammed Ghaly Islamic bioethics is in good health, this article argues. During the twentieth century, academic researchers had to deal with a number of difficulties including the scarcity of available Islamic sources....
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October 28th, 2014 | by
MuslimScienceIt is likely that many emerging economies will go to the stars following India’s Mars Orbiter Mission as space projects are a good status symbol and help countries gain credibility, Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle science...