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Stem Cells
Daley @ You Tube
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…
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…
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…
Dr. George Q. Daley Senate testimony regarding embryonic stem cell research
To the Committee of Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions January 19, 2007 Stem cells come in many varieties. Even the term “stem cell” is a very general term. It defines a generic category of cells that has many members with different properties. It’s about as specific as the category “seed.” Seeds of all types share…
Parthenotes – New Hope for Stem-Cell Therapy?
This via MIT Technology Review. Generate cells using parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction in which an embryo can develop without fertilization. Parthenogenesis occurs naturally in some plants and vertebrates, but not in mammals. However, scientists can trick mammalian eggs into undergoing parthenogenesis by activating the egg as if it had been fertilized. To date,…
Saving lives vs. saving potential lives.
According to this study (PDF File) by Rand Corporation (www.rand.org), there are nearly 400,000 embryos (fertilized eggs that have developed for six or fewer days) frozen and stored since the late 1970s.. Paulina and I have about 0.000025 times the total amount. Couples decide what to do with those embyos and you have to sign…
Michael J. Fox via BBC News
H.R.810 – Yea-Nay Vote. 63 – 37
H.R.810 – Yea-Nay Vote. 63 – 37 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research. Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 – Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research that utilizes human embryonic stem…
How stem cells can turn back the biological clock @ The Guardian
Boost the levels of a gene called NANOG inside a embryonic stem cell, fuse it with a brain cell and the brain cell converts into a stem cell. The researchers believe that Nanog, alongside other genes, kicks into action a cascade of complex biological machinery that forces cells back into their simplest state, before they…