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>Adult Stem Cells, Muscular Dystrophy: Old News, Biased Coverage
>I am grateful for any mainstream media coverage of adult stem cell therapies. I’m thrilled that the journal, Nature, is giving space to research on treatments that are ethical. I understand that the new research (Abstract is here) not only reports benefits from the injection of specific populations of stem cells that have been isolated … Continue reading
Adult Stem Cells, Muscular Dystrophy: Old News, Biased Coverage
I am grateful for any mainstream media coverage of adult stem cell therapies. I’m thrilled that the journal, Nature, is giving space to research on treatments that are ethical. I understand that the new research (Abstract is here) not only reports benefits from the injection of specific populations of stem cells that have been isolated … Continue reading
Critical Care of Babies Born and Unborn
The Nuffield Bioethics Council has published its report, “Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine: ethical issues.” I’ve just skimmed over it, so far. More later. You can read the entire report in pdf form , my summary (below) at LifeEthics.org, which includes links to other people’s summaries, including one from the chair of … Continue reading
>Critical Care of Babies Born and Unborn
>The Nuffield Bioethics Council has published its report, “Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine: ethical issues.” I’ve just skimmed over it, so far. More later. You can read the entire report in pdf form , my summary (below) at LifeEthics.org, which includes links to other people’s summaries, including one from the chair of … Continue reading
Adult vs. Embryonic Insulin Stem Cells
A friend asked me about the report in Nature Medicine on the development of human embryonic stem cells that produce the hormons found in the pancreas. These cells were grown in cultures (in dishes, not animals and certainly not in humans) and don’t appear to be able to respond to the levels of glucose. So … Continue reading
>Adult vs. Embryonic Insulin Stem Cells
>A friend asked me about the report in Nature Medicine on the development of human embryonic stem cells that produce the hormons found in the pancreas. These cells were grown in cultures (in dishes, not animals and certainly not in humans) and don’t appear to be able to respond to the levels of glucose. So … Continue reading
Resuscitating and prolonging life
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ “Working Party on Critical Care Decisions in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine” setting week-by-week guidelines for the treatment and resuscitation of newborns will be released today, November 16, 2006. In the meantime, based on news reports and last week’s unethical statement by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the blogosphere … Continue reading
>Resuscitating and prolonging life
>The Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ “Working Party on Critical Care Decisions in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine” setting week-by-week guidelines for the treatment and resuscitation of newborns will be released today, November 16, 2006. In the meantime, based on news reports and last week’s unethical statement by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the blogosphere … Continue reading
Hwang: no technology, no cloned stem cells
Hwang Woo-Suk has admitted that his laboratory did not create any “patient-specific” stem cells through somatic cell nuclear transfer, often abbreviated as “SCNT,” “NT,” or cloning. He also admits that he does not have the technology to do so. The reports on the latest statements from the Korean veterinarian and his lawyers are reported by … Continue reading
>Hwang: no technology, no cloned stem cells
>Hwang Woo-Suk has admitted that his laboratory did not create any “patient-specific” stem cells through somatic cell nuclear transfer, often abbreviated as “SCNT,” “NT,” or cloning. He also admits that he does not have the technology to do so. The reports on the latest statements from the Korean veterinarian and his lawyers are reported by … Continue reading
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