Children’s Hospital Boston researcher George Daley, MD, PhD, sheds new light on the now discredited Korean embryonic stem cell lines. In this clip, Daley discusses the three ways to make embryonic stem cells and how the Korean stem cells were actually created through parthenogenesis, a process that creates an embryo from an unfertilized egg. Watch…
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Marcia Boyle from the Immune Deficiency Foundation calls for Action.
Take Action The Time is Now! – Contact Your Senators Take Action! Encourage Your Senators to Include a Medicare IVIG Provision in Medicare Legislation This Year It is critical that you immediately contact your Senators and ask them to fix the IVIG problem this year and to include a fix in any Medicare legislation that…
Sydney offers $500K grant to the first scientist to produce stem cells from cloned human embryos
Story via Daily Telegraph here. $500K for stem cell breakthrough SYDNEY could become the first city in the world to produce stem cells from cloned human embryos with a $500,000 grant being offered by Premier Morris Iemma to the first scientist to do it. With laws lifted on the previously illegal practice, the State Government…
Paraskavedekatriaphobia
The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia (a word that is derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Παρασκευή, δεκατρείς, and φοβία, meaning Friday, thirteen, and phobia respectively; alternative spellings include paskevodekatriaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia, and is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen. More here.
One giant leap for mankind.
The first ever talk about NEMO. Immune Deficiency Foundation conference at St. Louis by Dr. Jordan Orange Pioneers: someone who went to an area before it was settled.
From Reuters – Genetic testing of embryo seen safe for offspring
Sofía is three years old and full of energy, we can see clearly that saving her brother’s life was only the beginning… Genetic testing of embryo seen safe for offspring By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study provides “reassuring” evidence that babies born from in vitro fertilization with preimplantation genetic diagnosis…
Gene therapy article at JCI
Article published yesterday at The Journal of Clinical Investigation (where Dr. Orange published the NEMO article about Andy) from Dr. Alain Fischer regarding gene therapy. I called Dr. Fischer once about 5 years ago and he told me he was not ready to use gene therapy to treat children with NEMO. In this article he…
Dr. Jordan S. Orange at the cover of the IDF Newsletter
What a great surprise to see Dr. Orange at the cover of The National Newsletter of the Immune Deficiency Foundation. It means that the IDF is doing things right.
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Dr. George Q. Daley @ The Charlie Rose Show
Great program! Its all about the possibility! My notes regarding stem cell research talk by Sir Paul Nurse, George Daley, Doug Melton, Larry Goldstein, Story Landis at the Charlie Rose program: “The aim of all this is to revolutionize medical treatment and understanding of disease” “Learn about mechanisms of diseases.” “Develop new therapies.” “Repair degenerative…