Cuomo proposes international trips to promote global business opportunities in NY

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Gov. Cuomo's suddenly developing a taste for world travel.

The governor who rarely traveled outside the state until this summer on Tuesday proposed making five international trade missions to promote global business opportunities in New York State.

Cuomo said he plans to visit China, Mexico, Canada, Israel and Italy over the next few years.

Why Italy? Because I want to go to Italy," he told a large international crowd at the Global NY conference at the Jacob Javits Center.

Cuomo said he did not travel during his first term because he didnt want to stir up speculation about his future political ambitions.

I wanted to make the point that my job is the governor of the state of New York and that is a job that you do in the state of New York, he told reporters after his speech. I wanted to make it clear that I wasnt interested in any other job.

That calculus is changing, he said. He visited Israel in August and Afghanistan in late September.

Im now saying essential to my job sometimes requires traveling, he said. These trade missions will be for my job. Theyre essential to doing the job of governor.

A spokesman for the governor could not say how much the trips are expected to cost.

In order to open new markets to the state, Cuomo also announced that he would create an import-export bank for New York State with $35 million in state funding.

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Stem cell treatments surging into the clinic

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Michael Scott, a ViaCyte vice president, holds the VC-01 device that holds progenitor cells that will mature to make insulin and other hormones.

More than ever before, stem cell therapies appear poised to transform medicine potentially curing heart disease, diabetes and paralyzing injuries, among other ailments.

But its also clear that such innovations will be very expensive.

How the government, insurers and patients will pay for what could be a flood of these new treatments drew the attention of more than 700 biomedical and health-care executives Tuesday at the 2014 Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa.

The annual conference, held on La Jolla's Torrey Pines Mesa, will run through Thursday. It brings together the business and academic worlds of cell therapy, including but not limited to stem cell treatments.

In California alone, 131 clinical trials are taking place with stem cells, according to Clinicaltrials.gov, a government website that tracks clinical trials. Patients are being treated for conditions such as blindness from retinal diseases, HIV, leukemia, sickle cell disease, stroke and aging of skin.

The recent proliferation of clinical trials marks great progress toward the ultimate goal of getting new treatments to patients, said stem cell researcher Jeanne Loring, who directs the Center for Regenerative Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla.

Its been a sea change from last year, said Loring, who is working with some colleagues in planning their own stem cell trial to treat Parkinsons disease.

Theyre developing replacement neurons grown from artificial embryonic stem cells called induced pluripotent stem cells. The process begins with cells derived from the skin of patients to be treated.

Home-grown milestone

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Humanist Chaplain, Author Explore the Non-religious Life

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Harvard Humanist chaplain Greg M. Epstein discussed how to live a non-religious life with Sam B. Harris, author of Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion, in Science Center Hall B Tuesday.

Harris, a leading and controversial figure in the New Atheism movement, has published several books on the topic of atheism. His new book focuses on spirituality and the individuals responsibility to achieve his or her own happiness.

I want people to take away that having a spiritual life need not entail believing in anything on insufficient evidence, Harris said. It only requires that you observe your experience more closely in the present moment.

Epstein, also a leader in the New Atheism movement, has published his own book, Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. Toward the end of this book, Epstein focuses on the importance of community for non-religious individuals, the main topic of his next book.

I think [my own and Harriss ideas] can be two sides of a coin, how to have a healthy inner life as a non-religious person and how to have a healthy outer life as a non-religious person, Epstein said. [Harris is] talking a little more about the inner life, and Im arguing that in order to have the healthiest possible inner life we also need community.

During the discussion, Harris went into depth about what he called a source of dissatisfaction in an individuals life: the idea that only attaining certain goals, such as getting married or getting a better job, will allow true happiness. He said that this mindset is unnecessary and that an individual can learn to be happy in the moment if they can learn to be present in that moment. Based on this idea, Harris promoted meditation as a conduit into living in the moment and led the audience in a couple of minutes of meditation.

I think the meditation aspect is something that I have been interested in in the past, but haven't had the chance to do, and I do think what he had to say about spirituality as a nonreligious person is something to take away from, said Erin M. Williams 15, a member of the Harvard Community of Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics.

Many HCHAA members came to the event in support of their parent organization, the Humanist Hub. The Humanist Hub at Harvard, which opened this year, works to create a space to address the growing community of agnostic and atheists college students.

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