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Science Magazine on "Race" to Stem Cell Breakthrough

The Thomson article is online (abstract is free, article is behind a pay wall), but I haven’t had a chance to read it. In the meantime, Science Magazine has a news article on both the publication from Wisconsin’s Thomson and the previously discussed Takahashi/Yamanaka article in Cell. Be sure and read the last sentence!!!! Now … Continue reading

>Translation of "Induced Pluripotent (Human) Stem Cells"

>Please see the revised version of this post, published November 30, 2007.

Translation of "Induced Pluripotent (Human) Stem Cells"

Please see the revised version of this post, published November 30, 2007.

>Reprogramming Stem Cells – Links to Articles

>I got the authors backwards. Here’s the corrected version: Takahashi et al. (including Yamanaka), Cell Online, free pdf. There’s a “Preview” article in pdf here.Still waiting for Science to post Thomson’s report online.

Reprogramming Stem Cells – Links to Articles

I got the authors backwards. Here’s the corrected version: Takahashi et al. (including Yamanaka), Cell Online, free pdf. There’s a “Preview” article in pdf here.Still waiting for Science to post Thomson’s report online.

>Embryonic Stem Cells from Patient’s Own Adult Stem Cells

>Well, they did it! From Reuter’s, UK: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two separate teams of researchers announced on Tuesday they had transformed ordinary skin cells into batches of cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells — but without using cloning technology and without making embryos. Their breakthroughs could make possible the long-sought goal of … Continue reading

Embryonic Stem Cells from Patient's Own Adult Stem Cells

Well, they did it! From Reuter’s, UK: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two separate teams of researchers announced on Tuesday they had transformed ordinary skin cells into batches of cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells — but without using cloning technology and without making embryos. Their breakthroughs could make possible the long-sought goal of … Continue reading

>Limits on "I want" ethics

>While we’re all waiting for the announcement that Shinya Yamanaka’s lab has or has not published on human embryonic-like stem cells dedifferentiated from adult stem cells . . . (The press releases hit while I was writing this post.) Wesley Smith’s blog, Secondhand Smoke has a good discussion titled, ” Just Because Someone Wants Something, … Continue reading

Limits on "I want" ethics

While we’re all waiting for the announcement that Shinya Yamanaka’s lab has or has not published on human embryonic-like stem cells dedifferentiated from adult stem cells . . . (The press releases hit while I was writing this post.) Wesley Smith’s blog, Secondhand Smoke has a good discussion titled, ” Just Because Someone Wants Something, … Continue reading

>Christian Medical Association on Right to Conscience

>If the scientist or doctor is driven by curiosity (and a desire for her own set of money making patents?) or because “it’s legal” and patients want it, where do we draw the line between preference, opinion and conscience? We’ve been discussing the significance of ethics and conscience at here at LifeEthics.org, the Women’s Bioethics … Continue reading

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