Dick Ahlstrom

Dick Ahlstrom

Science Editor

Dick Ahlstrom is Science Editor of The Irish Times. He edits the weekly Science Today page and files science news reports for various departments.

He is also an assistant news editor working on the newsdesk and previously served as Science Correspondent of the newspaper.

The Royal Irish Academy published his book on Irish science, Flashes of Brilliance, and has won a number of awards for his science writing.

He is a Fellow of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and is a Life Member of the Royal Dublin Society.

He holds degrees from Temple University, Philadelphia and from University College Dublin.

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Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, PhD, in his laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University. Biologists at OHSU, led by Dr. Mitalipov, have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996. Photograph: Reuters
Scientists issue warning on embryonic stem cells breakthrough

Cloning technique may have ethical issues linked to destruction of viable embryos

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Handout photo issued by Cell Press showing how scientists have succeeded in obtaining stem cells from human embryos cloned from skin. Photograph: Eric Baker/OHSU/PA Wire
Cloning breakthrough holds out promise of personalised medicine

‘Great step forward’ as human embryo clones produced to yield embryonic stem cells

US astronaut Tom Marshburn (right), Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko (centre) and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield sit after leaving the Russian Soyuz space capsule following its landing some 150 km (93 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan this morning. The first Canadian astronaut to command the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan with two crewmates, ending a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photograph: Carla Cioffi/Nasa
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Tweeting astronaut returns after six months on board International Space Station

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A view of part of the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN in Meyrin, Switzerland. Photograph: John Von Radowitz /PA Wire
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