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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
ScienceDaily (How to show your social eugenics agenda)
ScienceDaily, a website that often carries news headlines and just about any press release anyone sends them, has topped themselves today with a blurb suggesting that same sex civil unions are a “600 year old tradition.” We know that homosexuality has been around at least since Exodus was first related, and murder and lying are … 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
WhyVille – Virtual Biotech for Children
According to the San Antonio Express News, the Texas Workforce is helping to teach children to handle credit and the importance of developing vaccines: n Texas, Whyville recently received grants totaling $440,000 from the Texas Workforce Commission to build Whyville Biotech and Whyville Advanced Manufacturing Center. The site’s designers created Whyville Biotech to teach kids … Continue reading
An oldie but a goodie – new conversation
The November 2006 post, “Beyond Belief: the Institutional Delusion of Scientism” commenting on the Belief net symposium on science and religion has a new life – with comments. Paul Booth has left a new comment on your post “Beyond Belief: the Institutional Delusion of Scien…”: “If you ask me (or read this far in the … Continue reading
Science retracts another
There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the scientific review process does work. Science is retracting (all of these Science and Nature articles are behind a paywall) an article that has been proven to include forged photographs, due to the questions about these photographs from other researchers. Although the actual research … 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
Doctors, faith and helping the poor
The Chicago Tribune published an article on a study concerning doctors who help the poor. I haven’t read the actual article, yet, but I wonder how the “poor” are defined and question the definition of “religiosity” vs. spiritual. For one thing, I’m not sure how, as a Family Physician, I would separate my patients into … Continue reading
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