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Scientists Cure Mice with Adult Stem Cells
Significant progress on the use of adult stem cells (non-embryonic) in finding cures.
AP/AAAS | Lauran Neergaard | Dec. 6, 2007
Scientists have the first evidence that those “reprogrammed stem cells” that made headlines last month really have the potential to treat disease: They used skin from the tails of sick mice to cure the rodents of sickle cell anemia.
At issue: Turning adult cells into ones that mimic embryonic stem cells, master cells that can turn into any type of tissue. When scientists announced last month that they had successfully engineered embryo-like stem cells from human skin, it was hailed as a possible alternative to ethically fraught embryo research. Continue Reading »
comments off Friday 07 Dec 2007 | Banescu | Science, Stem cell |
Trading Places, Pro-Science Religious Beliefs Were Right
Will the secular left soon attack the religious right for being pro-science?
Opinion Journal | Joseph Bottum | Nov. 28, 2007
If the news of major breakthroughs in cell research should turn out to be correct, we are about to witness something like victory in the fight over embryonic stem cells.
And that will open a nest of interesting questions, beginning with this one: All those editorialists and columnists who have, over the past 10 years, howled and howled about Luddites and religious fanatics thwarting science and frustrating medicine–were they really interested in technology and health, or were they just using all that as a handy stick with which to whack their political opponents?
comments off Friday 30 Nov 2007 | Banescu | Sanctity of life, Science, Stem cell |
Child who received stem cells from aborted fetus on way home
AP Paul Elias December 12, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO – Daniel Kerner’s parents knew the experimental brain surgery was risky, but without it the 6-year-old surely would die.
Last month in Portland, Ore., doctors for the first time transplanted stem cells from aborted fetuses into his head in a desperate bid to reverse, or at least slow, a rare genetic disorder called Batten disease. The so-far incurable condition normally results in blindness and paralysis before death.
Ukraine babies in stem cell probe
BBC Matthew Hill December 12, 2006
There is heated debate about the ethics of using stem cells.
Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests.
Slippery-slope concerns are valid over stem-cell research
Townhall.com John Leo July 31, 2006
Just when you think the debate over embryonic stem cells can’t get any more degraded, an outfit called the Campaign to Defend the Constitution comes along and proves you wrong. The group took out two vitriolic full-page ads in The New York Times (at $200,000 a pop) lashing out at religious conservatives as extremists and ideologues for opposing federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research (ESCR).
The Frankenstein Syndrome
Townhall.com Paul Greenberg July 28, 2006
It’s a juicy prospect for a fast-developing industry: billions in federal grants for experimentation on human embryos.
2 comments Friday 28 Jul 2006 | Jacobse | Stem cell |
