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>Patients’ own adult stem cells in the news
>There’s hope in the news for future adult stem cell therapies using patients’ own stem cells within the next ten years. The (UK) Times Online reports on the rapid progress in research on tissue regeneration using patients’ own adult stem cells to produce heart valves and muscles. The researcher predicts the technology will be available … Continue reading
>CIRM: Another one bites the dust
>They just can’t get good help – a scientist is leaving, just after the resignation of the temporary president of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Could it be that everyone who works for CIRM sees failure down the road? From this week’s Bioedge 263, a weekly newsletter on biotechnology out of Australia: CALIFORNIA STEM … Continue reading
>Gen*ethix, an online Bioethics game, with errors
>There’s a bioethics “game” online, Gen*ethix. Evidently, the game was written in 2003 or 2004. The player has his choice of three games. There’s video and text explaining the premises and the opportunity to click on answers and choices and to type in your own opinion about the ethical dilemma posed by the game. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
>Great news from the mom of a child with diabetes (cord blood)
>There’s a great comment today from the mom of a boy whose Type 1 or Juvenile Diabetes is being treated with cord blood: Darla Lindenmayer said… My son so far has been the oldest to participate in the cord blood trial. We are excited how well it is working. My son has gone from 5 … Continue reading
>Hwang "blew it"
>From Fowler’s Health and Science Update comes another lesson in hubris and the old saying about tangled webs and deception: Disgraced Korean Cloner Blew It: He Did Make HistoryA new report by a team of US researchers says the human embryonic stem cells generated in a now-discredited experiment in South Korea, actually were a first. … Continue reading
>Ethics, embryos, and e-rants
>Kevin T Keith (His often profane blog, Sufficient Scruples, focusing on why it’s wrong to be religious, pro-life or pro-abstinence is here) wonders (in 1700+ words) how scientists ever began to speak in terms of “ethical” and “unethical” about sources of stem cells at the Women’s Bioethics Blog: To emphasize that: the search for “ethical” … Continue reading
Saletan stirs up bioethics blog
Wesley Smith’s “Secondhand Smoke” and Science Blog’s “Denialism Blog” both comment on William Saletan’s latest Slate column, “Rights and Wrongs: Liberals, progressives, and biotechnology.” I have to admit, that while I find Saletan slightly disorganized at times, he manages to make quite a few people disagree with him, and does it so well. You need … Continue reading
>Prolonged culture of embryos, stem cells and more Free Stuff
>This week’s (June 27) Nature.com “Advance Online Publication” contains two “Letters” describing the production of embryonic stem cells from “epiblast” cells, one in mice and rats, one focusing on mice. Full content is restricted to subscription-only, but you can listen to a discussion about the studies on the free podcast from Nature, here, and the … Continue reading
>IVF embryo donation for destruction
>I’ve had some time to consider the report that we read last week concerning the willingness of the women and men who control the fates of the frozen embryos of their children to donate those embryos for destruction in research. The report has been published in ScienceXpress, the early posting on line of articles before … Continue reading
>Angina treatment from patients’ own adult stem cells
>Patients were given shots to stimulate the production of blood stem cells, the cells were removed from their blood – not from a bone marrow biopsy – and then injected in areas of their hearts that were alive, but not functioning.There’s more information at ScienceDaily online.While the researchers remind us that this is a “small … Continue reading
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