From the Pediatrics Journal, published today: Successful Allogeneic Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in a Child Who Had Anhidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia With Immunodeficiency Sophie Dupuis-Girod, MDa,b, Caterina Cancrini, MD, PhDc, Françoise Le Deist , MD, PhDd,1, Paolo Palma, MDc, Christine Bodemer, MDe, Anne Puel, PhDf, Susanna Livadiotti, MDc, Capucine Picard, MDa, Xavier Bossuyt, MD, PhDg, Paolo…
Stem Cells
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The DFCI stem cell registry
I learned yesterday that Dana Farber Cancer Institute has 42,000 thousand potential bone marrow stem cell donors registered at their donor center. That’s 14 times Mexico’s registry… They already have buccal swab tests available for HLA typing. That means that if you want to become a donor you just have to open your mouth for…
The Wall Street Journal jumps into the story..
Cloning Efforts Resume in U.S. By ANTONIO REGALADO and DAVID P. HAMILTON May 8, 2006; Page B6 Marking the re-entry of U.S. researchers into a controversial medical endeavor, two American research teams say they will resume efforts to clone human embryos. Officials at the University of California, San Francisco said Friday that they would immediately…
The race is on!
UCSF scientists are attempting to use controversial cloning techniques to generate human embryonic stem cell lines. At least half a dozen other groups in the United States and abroad also are getting involved in such work, signaling a renewed global push to achieve what experimenters in South Korea falsely claimed to have done last year….
This was the phrase I was trying to remember
HOSPITALS WITH LONG TRADITIONS OF EXCELLENCE HAVE DEMONSTRATED ABUNDANTLY THAT RESEARCH ENHANCES THE VITALITY OF TEACHING; TEACHING LIFTS THE STANDARDS OF SERVICE; AND SERVICE OPENS NEW AVENUES OF INVESTIGATION.
Timeline of Stem Cell Debate @ NPR News
Read timeline via NPR.org here. The first embryonic stem cells were isolated in mice in 1981. But it wasn’t until 1998 that researchers managed to derive stem cells from human embryos. That kicked into full gear an ethical debate that continues to this day. Here’s a look at key moments in the controversy so far:…
Virtual Stem Cell Laboratory from Children’s Hospital Boston
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Device that extracts as much as triple the amount of stem cells from umbilical cords
Today they insert a needle to a vein of the umbilical cord and let gravity do the job, blood flows through a small tube to a plastic bag. The problem is that only a small amount of blood (and stem cells) are collected. If they take long blood starts thickening or cuagulating and there’s also…