It's wonderful news for us, the University of North Dakota and the scientists we helped. Our part was putting a platform up there from which they could observe the re-entry.

Since this was our first one, it was extremely important to show that UND could handle this.

We're weeding through the options that are available to select the several best to get the scientists in the industry working on these problems.

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.

Were we to go with 60 percent at NIH reviews, many of us scientists would be very uncomfortable with the quality.

The National Academy of Sciences guidelines for stem cell research prohibits payment to egg donors, and scientists in the U.S. have embraced those principles. There is a right way and a wrong way, and we must be sure to perform this vitally important medical research the right way.