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Michael Levin’s photogenic, mixed-race family appears straight from central casting for the modern American middle-class family, seemingly the perfect choice to be featured in Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s video for MoveOn attacking presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Just one problem: Levin is not anti-Trump. In fact, he voted for the billionaire businessman in the Massachusetts primary. “On Monday I got a text from a friend who said, ‘Hey, I just saw you in the new Warren video attacking Trump.’ And I thought, ‘You've got to be kidding me,’” Levin told "Fox and Friends" on Sunday. “I watched the video,...

Scientists have created a tadpole that can literally watch what it eats: The tadpole has an eye growing in its gut. Led by developmental biologist Michael Levin of Tufts University in Medford, Mass., the researchers manipulated cells in the tadpole’s gut to take on a specific electrical state. Those cells developed into a fully formed eye. Inducing just the right electrical state in cells can lead to eye growth anywhere on the body, the team reports online December 7 in Development. Bizarre as the experiment sounds, it is a major step toward regenerating complex organs and limbs. One day, Levin...

Israel Remembers IDF American Zionist Hero Michael Levin By Rory Kress Israel News Agency Jerusalem ----July 29..... Michael Levin of suburban Philadelphia was determined to join the Israel Defense Forces. "He once said to me: 'If you cut my legs off, I'm still going to Israel,'" his father, Mark, recalls. There was never a question in his mind that he should go to Israel and join a combat unit. "It was him," says his mother, Harriet. "Knowing who Michael was, he didn't have a choice." But when the Second Lebanon War broke out last year, Levin did have a choice:...

An Israeli soldier grieves for Sgt. Yonatan Sharabi, 19, killed in action in southern Lebanon, during his funeral at the Petah Tikvah cemetery in central Israel. Israeli warplanes pounded areas north and south of Lebanon, killing at least 38 people, as Israel's largest city Tel Aviv braced for a rain of retaliatory Hezbollah rocket fire. (Note: If Pajamas Media is going to ask for help sourcing information and publish it, please give FR credit...)