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Friday, June 29, 2007

Today's Globe: Caritas deal off, transplanted DNA, fish from China

The Archdiocese of Boston's tentative deal to hand over its troubled Caritas Christi Health Care system to Ascension Health of St. Louis collapsed yesterday after five months of research by Ascension showed the hospital chain was in worse financial shape than it expected, according to officials at competing hospitals and others familiar with the talks.

Biologists have converted one species of bacterium into another by replacing all of its DNA, a critical step toward their ultimate goal of designing entire organisms from scratch, according to a study published yesterday.

Federal authorities, under fire for responding slowly to tainted Chinese imports, yesterday said they will halt shipments of five fish species sent from China because they are laced with dangerous chemicals.

Posted by Elizabeth Cooney at 06:39 AM
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