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>Texas House State Affairs Committee meeting
>Today the Texas House State Affairs Committee met in Houston to hear invited testimony on their interim charge on following stem cell research. The proponents of embryonic stem cell research are still claiming that “only” 9 or so diseases are being treated with adult stem cells and that we’ve had 40 years on adult stem … Continue reading
The man with the patent on humans
James Thomson, the lead researcher on the team that grew the first embryonic stem cell line, and who has the patent on all human embryonic stem cell lines, has given an interview to the Wisconsin State Journal. There is a partial transcript and an audio slide show at the website. Dr. Thomson agrees with me: … Continue reading
>The man with the patent on humans
>James Thomson, the lead researcher on the team that grew the first embryonic stem cell line, and who has the patent on all human embryonic stem cell lines, has given an interview to the Wisconsin State Journal. There is a partial transcript and an audio slide show at the website. Dr. Thomson agrees with me: … Continue reading
NASA and Planned Parenthood Share Bioethicist
As a science fiction reader, I’m concerned that the bioethicist for NASA can’t even tell which humans are human enough to have their rights protected. What’s going to happen when he runs into another species somewhere “out there”? Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. has been the NASA bioethicist for a few years, but I wasn’t aware … Continue reading
>NASA and Planned Parenthood Share Bioethicist
>As a science fiction reader, I’m concerned that the bioethicist for NASA can’t even tell which humans are human enough to have their rights protected. What’s going to happen when he runs into another species somewhere “out there”? Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. has been the NASA bioethicist for a few years, but I wasn’t aware … Continue reading
More on dead embryos and stem cells.
A couple of corrections and some comments on the original article, from the journal, Stem Cells. The authors did not achieve any stem cell lines (“hESCs”)from the early (2-10) cell lines. So I was wrong about their having done what Lanza and Advanced Cell Technology claimed to have done. Also, the Nature article by Alison … Continue reading
>More on dead embryos and stem cells.
>A couple of corrections and some comments on the original article, from the journal, Stem Cells. The authors did not achieve any stem cell lines (“hESCs”)from the early (2-10) cell lines. So I was wrong about their having done what Lanza and Advanced Cell Technology claimed to have done. Also, the Nature article by Alison … Continue reading
Naturally dead embryos for stem cell research.
Okay, first: there’s a problem with the idea that in vitro embryos can be called “natural.” However, the rest is ethical. news@nature.com carries a report that does what Lanza did not: shows that single cells (blastomeres) from embryos can grow to yield embryonic stem cells without the intentional killing of an embryo. The embryos were … Continue reading
>Naturally dead embryos for stem cell research.
>Okay, first: there’s a problem with the idea that in vitro embryos can be called “natural.” However, the rest is ethical. news@nature.com carries a report that does what Lanza did not: shows that single cells (blastomeres) from embryos can grow to yield embryonic stem cells without the intentional killing of an embryo. The embryos were … Continue reading
The best article title
Couldn’t pass, uh, couldn’t resist this one: Mouse Colon Takes Top Honors at Nikon’s Small World This is from a press release announcing the award for best photomicrograph in an international digital photography contest, sponsored by Nikon.
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