Experts call for a unified approach to U.S. stem cell research Ruarri Serpa Issue date: 3/25/08 Boston-area medical experts called for more uniform federal stem cell research policies, and said having inconsistent policies leads to less collaboration among scientists and misconceptions that give the public a negative view of the field. Harvard Medical Center pediatric…
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Via CBS: The Holy Grail of Medicine
COOL! Just like a lizard’s tail… It’s true, this is the holy grail of medicine. And we got to see a glimpse of it with Andy & Sofia. Medicine’s Cutting Edge: Re-Growing Organs(CBS) Imagine re-growing a severed fingertip, or creating an organ in the lab that can be transplanted into a patient without risk of…
Reuters: Cloned cells treat Parkinson’s in mice
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) – Researchers who used cloned embryonic stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease in mice said on Sunday they worked better than other cells. The researchers were trying to prove that it is possible to make embryonic stem cells using cloning technology and use…
Via AFP: Australian parents sue over IVF son: report
Strange.. Tough luck… I wonder if they are also suing their parents for having them?And their grandparents for giving birth to their parents who gave birth to them? SYDNEY (AFP) — An Australian couple who used IVF to conceive a daughter to avoid passing on an incurable disease which only affects males are suing their doctors after…
Vatican lists 7 social sins
This from Bloomberg: Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out on social issues throughout his three-year papacy. He backs a current political initiative to outlaw abortions after 90 days and encouraged Catholics to abstain from a 2005 referendum on easing restrictive laws on fertility treatments, which failed to achieve the 50 percent participation level to make…
Tips for savvy medical Web surfing via CNN
Tips for savvy medical Web surfing Empowered Patient, a regular feature from CNN Medical News correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, helps put you in the driver’s seat when it comes to health care. ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — When Mary Ryan’s 4-year-old nephew, Nick, landed in the hospital with a serious infection, her brother called her in a…
Daley takes Japanese stemcell breakthrough a step further
PARIS (AFP) — A team of American scientists reported Sunday that they had widened the scope of a Japanese breakthrough in stem cells that many experts have hailed as the greatest medical achievement of 2007. In November, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and colleagues announced they had reprogrammed human skin cells to have the multiple…
Six-year-old home after life-saving transplant
by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy has left hospital less than two months after receiving a life-saving bone marrow transplant. Rhys Harris, from Newbridge, was discharged on Saturday after living in a “bubble” to protect his new immune system. His family – parents Kevin and Dawn and brother Morgan – are…
Spirit of Giving – Sister Savior – Stem Cell Research
SISTER, SAVIOR By Kate Kruschwitz Children’s Immunology chief Raif Geha, MD, and gastroenterologist Samuel Nurko, MD, MPH, struggled to bring Andy’s infections under control. Meanwhile, Jordan Orange, MD, PhD, an immuno-genetics specialist, searched for clues to Andy’s condition. Orange was conducting research on the immune system’s master switch, the gene NF-kB Essential Modulator, or NEMO….
Skin cells > IPS cells > correct mutation > blood stem cells > transplant > cure
Researchers from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass. and Kyoto University in Japan used an innovative new method to reprogram adult cells to an “embryonic-stem-cell-like” state, and successfully cured mice with sickle-cell anemia. iPs = induced pluripotent stem Press Release