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Cord Blood Cells: Godsend or Gimmick?
“There are people who are alive now who otherwise would’ve been dead if there hadn’t been a mother who donated their cord blood.” If you know me and my granddaughter Roni, you know that my answer is “Godsend.” ABC News has a video news report from Good Morning America on the current status of cord … Continue reading
Answering
Jerri, First, I want everyone to know that I pray for this baby and his mother every time I think of him. I hope the doctors are wrong – but I doubt it. There are simply too many doctors referenced in the report from the Ethics Committee for me to believe that there is a … Continue reading
Vision from Adult Stem Cells
British researchers have improved the site of patients with a congenital defect, using stem cells that appear to recruit their own stem cells from the bone marrow. From The Argus news report: Four patients have so far received the treatment successfully in one eye and reported an improvement in their comfort and vision, and now … Continue reading
>Vision from Adult Stem Cells
>British researchers have improved the site of patients with a congenital defect, using stem cells that appear to recruit their own stem cells from the bone marrow. From The Argus news report: Four patients have so far received the treatment successfully in one eye and reported an improvement in their comfort and vision, and now … Continue reading
Truly transplantable lung stem cells
Researchers at The University of Michigan have proven that mesenchymal stem cells are present in the lungs, and that these cells have transplanted along with the rest of the lung. In the past, it was believed that the mesenchymal stem cells ( a versatile group of stem cells – see the information in the quote … Continue reading
Stem cell review, March 2007
It’s time to write an updated review on the status of stem cell therapy. For one thing, I wrote about the lung cells from two different labs and sources, yesterday. Next, Richard Doerflinger has written his “75 new reasons” to support non embryonic stem cell therapy over on “DO NO HARM.” And then, there’s the … Continue reading
Follow-up: HPV Testing, Men, and Prevalence
I did a little research on testing for HPV, especially in men. The CDC site on HPV is here and it’s up to date. http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm Digene, http://www.digene.com/labs/labs_hpv_01.html is a swab test for women. Negatives are true negatives for current risk of cancerous changes at the cervix. If negative, then 99.5% accurate – no HPV present … Continue reading
"Back Alley Death" ("Physician Assisted Suicide" )
Oregon and Vermont – extremes on the map and extremes on medical ethics. But this is the first time that I’ve heard that doctors should give patients a deadly prescription to prevent a “back alley” death. How many of us really want our Family Doctor to be proficient in killing? Or, in over-riding his or … Continue reading
Free Access Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
If you’d like to learn how little you know (except you, Rebecca of Mary Meets Dolly), Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology is offering free access this month, with free registration. The free registration itself is valuable – because you’ll be able to access some of the news@nature items and receive Tables of Contents of many … Continue reading
Embryonic SC researchers claim doubtful "first"
Beware of Press Release science reporting – the job of the news release or public affairs department of an institution is to get publicity, not to promote scientific knowledge. There’s no peer review until after the fact, and the goal is to catch our attention, rather to educate. A case in point was the announcement … Continue reading
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