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Topics, participants, activities, and goals of the forum will be determined jointly. </p></td></tr> <tr><td><div id="homepage_ul"> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080912060616/http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=09082008">National Academy of Sciences Announcement</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080912060616/http://royalsociety.org/news.asp?id=7996">Royal Society Announcement</a> </li> </ul> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="topnews"><tbody> <tr><td><h3 class="blurbhead"><a href="morenews/20080905.html">Guidelines for Embryonic Stem Cell Research Amended</h3></td></tr> <tr><td> <div style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px"> <a href="morenews/20080905.html"><img height="140" alt="Oocyte Picture (NIH)" src="/web/20080912060616im_/http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/includes/20070206.jpg" width="100" border="0"/></a> </div> <p class="blurb"><span class="date">Sep 5 -- </span> The National Academies have updated their guidelines for the responsible conduct of research using human embryonic stem cells. These voluntary guidelines are based on a joint National Research Council-Institute of Medicine committee's review of scientific, ethical, and policy issues that have arisen since the guidelines were last updated in 2007. </p></td></tr> <tr><td><div id="homepage_ul"> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080912060616/http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12260">News Release</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080912060616/http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12260">Full Report</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080912060616/http://dels.nas.edu/bls/stemcells/">Web Site </a> </li> </ul> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="topnews"><tbody> <tr><td><h3 class="blurbhead"><a href="morenews/20080905b.html">Review of CDC Great Lakes Draft Reports Released</h3></td></tr> <tr><td> <div style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px"> <a href="morenews/20080905b.html"><img height="140" alt="Sailboat at Presque Isle Marquette, Michigan Michigan Sea Grant Extension, Carole Y. 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Public domain image taken by Petercantfail." src="/web/20080912060616im_/http://www.nationalacademies.org/headlines/includes/20080828.jpg" width="100" border="0"/></a> </div> <p class="blurb"> <span class="date">Aug. 28 -- </span> A study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Children鈥檚 Hospital of Philadelphia suggests that children of mothers who are obese or who gained excessive weight during pregnancy are more likely to be overweight. 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