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Things in the lab or treat we can think about stopping disease progression and if we can do that it gives it into how we can dance think about developing therapeutics for talking to these patients for example you know open up tremendous opportunities in how we can tackle human diseases. parkinson's disease is still incurable and until now research into it focused on controversial animal experiments. it's difficult to carry out research involving humans. or one wants to test things on their brain if they don't know how it will turn out so producing miniature brains allows you to learn much fast...

Fund a lot of these controversial animal experiments that are redundant, many have failed. sometimes the researchers even know that this cannot replicate what they've already done but they'll do the research on the dog or whatever animal anyway because they have the funding and why not? >> tucker: before you hurt a dog you have to prove there's a good reason to do that. >> 100%, we don't like animal testing and we go out of our way to provide grants to universities to pioneer new models and methodologies to replace dogs like george washington and laboratories, we just gave a $50,000 grant to j...

Waste within the nih, it goes to fund a lot of these controversial animal experiments that are redundant, many have failed. sometimes the researchers even know that this cannot replicate what they've already done but they'll do the research on the dog or whatever animal anyway because they have the funding and why not? >> tucker: before you hurt a dog you have to prove there's a good reason to do that. >> 100%, we don't like animal testing and we go out of our way to provide grants to universities to pioneer new models and methodologies to replace dogs like george washington and laboratories, ...

Sit with you? >> so the idea that you're a parent because you contribute this little battery unit i'm not moved very much by that. i don't think you'll get a claim to say yes, i'm a parent too. the slippery slope argument you start introducing genes into embryos and we're making super babies and whatever it's a slippery slope. that's why we have stairs. you could put regulations and rules that say if it's not therapeutic you can't do it. you can do genetic engineering to fix cystic fib rose sis or -- >> how likely is this coming? >> i think we'll see it next year here. the9 capability is here ...

Eat a lot of charred meat may be at higher risk for cancers including stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer, even breast cancer. compounds can form when you cook meat at high temperatures. researchers suggest these chemicals could pose an increased cancer risk. what should you do to limit your exposure? first of all, clean your grill with soapy water. get rid of the burned meat residue. also, don't burn your meat. if you do burn part of the meat, cut that part off. you can precook your meats a little ahead of time on the microwave or stove and they won't sit on the grill too lon...