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Soundbites

7 December 2005

“The photos look most like a lemur. But there certainly shouldn’t be lemurs in Borneo.”

Nick Isaac from the Institute of Zoology in London, on the discovery of a mysterious new species of mammal in the Kayan Mentarang National Park in Indonesia (BBC news online, 6 December)

“We haven’t found the double helix of the brain yet.”

James Watson, co-discover of the structure of DNA, highlights the lack of progress in brain research (“Future of the brain” symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1 December)

“Stem cells are not just for life, they’re for Christmas.”

Shamshad Ahmed, managing director of…

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