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…
Stem Cells
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”~Galileo Galilei
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
My talk at Caesars Palace Las Vegas
Children’s Hospital Trust, the fundraising arm of Children’s Hospital Boston invited me to Las Vegas last week to talk about “the healing power of stem cells” at the Caesar’s Palace. I was the “Patient Family Speaker”. Here is my talk via You Tube, Part ONE: Part TWO: And some pictures: Dr. Zon, Mr. Loveman, Mr….
Dr. M. William Lensch answering stem cell questions at NYT
Dr. M. William Lensch works at The Daley Lab and he’s answering questions about stem cells via New York Times here.
Skin cell + 4 genes = embryonic stem cell?
New Stem Cell Method Could Ease Ethical Concerns By GINA KOLATA Published: November 21, 2007 Two teams of scientists are reporting today that they turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo — a feat that could quell the ethical debate troubling the field….
George Daley on Korean stem cells’ true source
Cells that know what to do + a printer = new body part
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Testicle stem cells? via BBC
A man’s testicles might be a source of stem cells to help him fight serious diseases, US scientists have shown. They extracted early-stage sperm cells from mice, then turned them into cells capable of becoming different tissues. Writing in Nature, the Weill Cornell Medical College team said their work might lead to treatments for…