August 2005

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Embryonic Stem Cell Alternative (more info)

Another interesting article on the discovery by Pitt researchers involving the outer membrane of the amniotic sac found in placental tissue reports it could have the same potential as embryonic stem cells in treating some diseases.... ... more

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Vitamin C Prompts Stem Cell Transformation

Scientists have observed that vitamin C prompts mouse embryonic stem cells to transform into beating heart muscle cells. A big hope is that doctors will one day have an ample supply of healthy human heart cells to transplant into failing... ... more

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Embryonic stem cells trigger immune rejection

Scientists from Stanford University in the States and Hannover Medical School in Germany have found that embryonic stem cells are rejected by the recipient's immune system after being implanted. Previously researchers have speculated about the possibility that embryonic stem cells... ... more

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Adult Stem cells with heart bypass surgery

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has been granted approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a clinical trial to determine the safety and feasibility of injecting a patient's own bone marrow-derived stem cells directly... ... more

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Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Sloppy Science

"The most recent scientific evidence shows the use of human embryos for therapeutic stem cell research to be ineffective and unnecessary," says Dr. Fazale Rana, one of the world's top three leading experts in origin of life research. Internationally respected... ... more

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Using nanoparticles, in vivo gene therapy activates brain stem cells

Using customized nanoparticles that they developed, University at Buffalo scientists have for the first time delivered genes into the brains of living mice with an efficiency that is similar to, or better than, viral vectors and with no observable toxic... ... more

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Adult Stem Cell Therapy Treats Heart Attacks in Animals

Two patients enrolled in Phase I clinical trials at Hopkins Final results of a study conducted at Johns Hopkins show that stem cell therapy can be used effectively to treat heart attacks, or myocardial infarction, in pigs. In just two... ... more

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discovery of adult stem cells in the uterus could restore your pelvic floor & more

Monash Institute of Medical Research (MIMR) senior scientist Dr Caroline Gargett's discovery of adult stem cells in the uterus that can be grown into bone, muscle, fat and cartilage, has been hailed as a major medical and scientific development by... ... more

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Advances made in stem-cell debate

A team of Texas and British researchers says it has produced large amounts of embryoniclike stem cells from umbilical cord blood, potentially ending the ethical debate affecting stem-cell research -- the need to kill human embryos.... ... more

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The Truth About Stem Cell Research

Scientists know that claims of imminent cures of disease using embryonic stem cells are junk science, whereas progress in adult stem cell research has been nothing short of spectacular. It is unfortunate that the mainstream media have exaggerated the prospects... ... more

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Stem-Cell Surgery Treats Paralysis

Paralyzed from the waist down after a snowboarding crash, Josh Millard puts his hopes into experimental stem-cell surgery The Millards learned about the unusual Portugal stem-cell surgery in a May report on the "CBS Evening News." The procedure involves removing... ... more

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Hybrid Cells Behave Like Embryonic Stem Cells

A flurry of recent articles report that scientists at Harvard have turned "ordinary skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells--without having to use human eggs or make new human embryos in the process." Well, not quite. The... ... more

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Umbilical Cord Stem Cells in a Microgravity Environment

umbilical cord stem cells micro-bioreactor

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Birthing Real Help with Adult Stem Cells

"When will embryonic stem cells reach the clinic? The answer is simple - not soon! ... although adult stem cells provide an alternative, more ethically acceptable, source." This opening is from a paper just published, where UK and Texas researchers... ... more

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Alternative to embryo research found

SCIENTISTS have found a way of deriving stem cells from umbilical cords which may end the need to clone human embryos in an attempt to cure diseases. The discovery of stem cells in umbilical cord blood with the potential to... ... more

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Frist Defends Stem Cell Stand

Speaking to patrons of a restauruant near Alcoa:Frist stressed to Maupin that he still is ``pro-life'' and that he has a ``100 percent pro-life voting record.'' But as a heart surgeon, Frist said he is used to taking living tissue... ... more

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Placenta Cells Share Characteristics of Embryo Cells Without Tumor Formation

PITTSBURGH, August 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have revealed findings that some placental cells have many of the same characteristics of embryonic stem cells. Like umbilical cords, the placenta is routinely discarded after a baby... ... more

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Discarded Placentas Have Embryonic-Like Cells

Routinely discarded as medical waste, placental tissue could feasibly provide an abundant source of cells with the same potential to treat diseases and regenerate tissues as their more controversial counterparts, embryonic stem cells, suggests a University of Pittsburgh study to... ... more

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An Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cells

Hyscience writes the following:University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that one type of cell in the human placenta has characteristics that are strikingly similar to embryonic stem cells in their ability to regenerate a wide variety of tissues. Unlike embryonic... ... more

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Potential Seen in Placental Stem Cells

Against a dictatorship of relativism correctly notes that stem cells derived from the human placenta would "be an ethically and morally legitimate alternative to embryonic stem cells." And, recent investigations suggest stem cells originating from the placenta have both scientific... ... more

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Korean Scientist Reveals Cloned Dog

South Korea's "king of cloning" has successfully cloned an Afghan hound called Snuppy. But producing the pup was far from easy. The team transferred 1095 embryos into 123 surrogate mothers - but just three pregnancies resulted. Yes. Cloned humans are... ... more

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Designer Baby’s Stem Cells a Perfect Match for Brother

MOIRA, August 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The UK’s first “designer baby,” created specifically as a tissue donor has been born and her stem cells harvested to treat her critically ill brother. Three week old Jodie Fletcher is a perfect tissue... ... more

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Stem Cell Therapy Heals the Heart

The technology, called VesCell, was developed by TheraVitae, has the potential to help millions who are suffering from coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure.

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