Channel 7 News NBC Boston: Littlest lifesaver Tonight a story about the great lengths local parents went to save their son. Their little boy started getting sick just hours after birth, and it only got worse. So they decided to save one child by having another. “Littlest lifesaver,” tonight at 11 p.m. on 7News.
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TIVO is getting ready for our first TV apperance ever…
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Stem cell research back in the headlines
This is what I think: This is just going around in circles.. Help is urgently needed for sick people who can benefit from treatments with these types of cells and researchers should have access to more resources. This is what the headlines say: Biologists last week revealed details of two techniques for deriving the cells…
New strategy for making embryonic stem cells @ HSCI
Harvard Stem Cell Institute August 22, 2005: A new study by Kevin Eggan, Douglas Melton, and colleagues offers hope that it might be possible in the future to produce embryonic stem cells without using human embryos. The Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers will report in the Aug. 26 edition of the journal Science that it…
What would Ghandi say about stem cells? via IHT
Of stem cells, what would Gandhi say? By Pankaj Mishra The New York Times MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2005 … American scientists and businessmen note enviously that religious and moral considerations do not seem to inhibit Indian biotechnologists. But this indifference to ethical issues would have certainly appalled Gandhi, father of the Indian nation. Gandhi accused…
PGD for cancer @ BBC News
Doctors have been given permission to screen a woman’s embryos for a rare form of eye cancer. Angela Donovan had retinoblastoma as a child and passed on the gene to her first son, Kieran, who underwent chemotherapy to get rid of the cancer. Fertility experts at University College Hospital London will test her embryos to…
Rossidudes
Ethan Rossi was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia when he was six months old, he had a stem cell transplant 149 days ago and he’s doing “quite well’. His dad Brian and mom Carolyn keep a very cool online blog called the Rossidudes. With lots of video and up to the minute updates, Brian Rossi…
Jen Spencer blog
Jen Spencer (picture), one of Andy’s favourite nurses has her own blog! Jen moved to Philadelphia to study more about nursing. Here’s Jen with Andy, Here’s her blog,
Gueno, gueno. Registro de células madre en México
Hay un artículo el día de hoy en el periódico Reforma sobre donación de médula ósea con el título “Invitan a donar médula ósea”. El artículo indica que en México solamente somos cuatro mil personas registradas. Leer artículo Reforma aquí (suscripción) La primera vez que llame al Donormo fué en Febrero/Marzo del 2002 buscando un…
Designer baby is a perfect match @ Belfast Telegraph
This is a story I’ve been following about the UK first ‘designer baby’. She was born on July 14, and the first story came out a few days later. Designer baby is a perfect match New hope for sick tot Joshua By Nigel Gould, Health Correspondent 04 August 2005 AN Ulster mum was jubilant today…