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Middle East Latest Edition: Friday 2nd May South Asia In the aftermath of the earthquake this week in Turkey, people UK are already beginning to ask if the victims could have been Business warned of their danger.

Health Geologists have yet to find a way of predicting quakes with any Science/Nature certainty, but, as Helen Sewell discovers in Science in Action, Technology they can detect them – at least a few seconds before the full

force strikes. And those vital seconds could be enough to save Entertainment many lives. Have your say Your personal information will only be used for the purposes of administrating Country Profiles There’s also news of a technique for making artificial egg cells this request.

In Depth in the laboratory.

------In principle it could lead to the production of tailor-made cells RELATED SITES to treat otherwise incurable disease, and to new treatments for

infertility.

But could it also make it simpler to clone humans and create designer babies with very complicated parentage?

And the most ambitious, most expensive space science experiment: will it be axed when it ’s almost ready for launch, having cost $700 million?

Find out more in this week’s Science in Action with Helen Sewell.

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