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ask the scientists  Photo of Emily Rosa Healing Touch -- Emily
Rosa  At 10 years old, Emily Rosa may be one of the youngest
people to submit a paper for publication in a scientific
journal. After repeating her experiment to investigate
Therapeutic Touch, Emily answered questions from the Frontiers
audience.  Q Dear Emily, I am very impressed with your science
project, because when I was in 6th grade (currently 9th) my
science project was nothing as marvelous as yours. To the
subject: I am very curious how you became interested in this
subject. Sincerely, Tracie.  Dear Tracie, I became interested in
testing Therapeutic Touch because I really didn't know if nurses
who do Therapeutic Touch were telling the truth about their
ability to feel the "human energy field." One day, my mother,
who is a nurse, was watching a video on nurses who practice
Therapeutic Touch, and I wanted to find out f