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>Lawyers at the bedside
>Thursday, I had a new experience: I wasn’t counted among the “prolife” people in the room because I defended the right to conscience. The same conscience that I’ve defended before. The occasion was the meeting of the group in Texas which is attempting to tweak the Texas Advance Directives Act, Chapter 166 of the Health … Continue reading
Now: Lung cells from umbilical cord blood cells
Scientists at the University of Minnesota report that they have produced type II alveolar cells that manufacture surfactant, the lipo-protein that allows lungs to expand and prevent collapse of the tiny airways at the end of each breath. The hope is that this discovery will allow the study of cord blood from babies born with … Continue reading
>Now: Lung cells from umbilical cord blood cells
>Scientists at the University of Minnesota report that they have produced type II alveolar cells that manufacture surfactant, the lipo-protein that allows lungs to expand and prevent collapse of the tiny airways at the end of each breath. The hope is that this discovery will allow the study of cord blood from babies born with … Continue reading
Functional Livers, Non-Functional Media
As Wesley Smith has reported on his blog, Second Hand Smoke, and in the Weekly Standard, the media is ignoring the spectacular news that UK scientists have developed “miniature livers” that can be used for testing drugs and, hopefully, for transplants in the future. It appears that umbilical cord blood stem cells are not news. … Continue reading
>Functional Livers, Non-Functional Media
>As Wesley Smith has reported on his blog, Second Hand Smoke, and in the Weekly Standard, the media is ignoring the spectacular news that UK scientists have developed “miniature livers” that can be used for testing drugs and, hopefully, for transplants in the future. It appears that umbilical cord blood stem cells are not news. … Continue reading
>Ethical Guidelines for Unethical Research
>Oxymoron time at the National Academies of Science. Election day, November 7th, is the also the first day of the two day Public Symposium of the National Academies of Science on their “Guidelines” for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. How can there be ethical guidelines for a basically unethical enterprise? I see that Shinya Yamanaka, … Continue reading
Ethical Guidelines for Unethical Research
Oxymoron time at the National Academies of Science. Election day, November 7th, is the also the first day of the two day Public Symposium of the National Academies of Science on their “Guidelines” for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. How can there be ethical guidelines for a basically unethical enterprise? I see that Shinya Yamanaka, … Continue reading
Texas, UK, ethical stem cells, "artificial" livers and biased reporting
I cannot imagine why anyone would take the news that livers have been grown from umbilical cord blood cells and turn it into a story on human embryonic stem cells. But, someone did. Last year, we learned that UK scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston used NASA … Continue reading
>Texas, UK, ethical stem cells, "artificial" livers and biased reporting
>I cannot imagine why anyone would take the news that livers have been grown from umbilical cord blood cells and turn it into a story on human embryonic stem cells. But, someone did. Last year, we learned that UK scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston used NASA … Continue reading
International Oocyte Trafficking Has Begun
The British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has an article by BC Heng (abstract is here) detailing the practice of obtaining oocytes (“eggs”) from women in developing countries. Heng supposes that not only the women more susceptible to financial pressures to “donate” their eggs, but the fact that the drugs to induce superovulation are cheaper … Continue reading
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