Stem Cells

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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Deal considered in U.S. stem cell debate - Is the body part via abortion business on the way out?

According to the UPI, James Battey, chairman of a stem cell task force within the National Institutes of Health, told the New York Times that scientists currently know of no way to derive human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos,... ... more

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Embryonic Stem Cell Research - Clash of Worldviews

According to the LTI Blog the fundamental dispute over embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) is a worldview issue:One group thinks human beings have value simply because they are human while the other group thinks humans have value only because of... ... more

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Adult Bone Marrow Cells Transformed Into Muscle Cells

Japanese researchers have transformed an ordinary kind of bone marrow cells extracted from adults into muscle cells, a first step toward the treatment of degenerative conditions such as muscular dystrophy. more... ... more

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Embryonic Stem Cell Hope Based on Distortions

Jean Swenson, a quadriplegic from a 1980 spinal cord injury, has been following and supporting spinal cord injury research for over 20 years. In a recent TownHall column she wrote that the public report on embryonic stem cell research is... ... more

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Embryonic Stem Cell Research - Unethical and Not Working

Scientists involved in embryonic stem cell research are now admitting that they have not achieved the advancements that were sold to the public. "Many of the technologies we hyped to the general public haven't worked yet," Celgene Corp. president Alan... ... more

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Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs Attract Investors

June 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - While research lobbyists pressure governments for access to embryos, more work is being done obtaining stem cells from ethical sources proving that embryonic stem cells are a dead end. This has not been lost on... ... more

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Successful Adult Stem Cell Research and Applications Continue

While embryonic stem cell research efforts struggle both ethically and technically, successful adult stem cell research and applications are exploding. Consider the following recent reports:Study: Adult stem cells promising - Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh researchers announced Thursday they have discovered... ... more

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The President's Inadequate Position on Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Joe Carter at the Evangelical Outpost has written an excellent response to President Bush's claim that the governmental involvement in embryonic stem cell research is limited to the issue of whether or not ESC research receives federal funding. Joe writes,While... ... more

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Scientists Boast of Stem Cell Lines Made from Home-grown Embryonic Children

The following article is from LifeSiteNews.com, a site that is well worth visiting regularly. Exploit suffering of Canadians with serious diseases to gain support for research with dismal chance of success TORONTO, June 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A team of... ... more

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Company, Researchers Use Aborted Children to Treat Heart Disease

Medical companies, funded by financial opportunists, are using stem cells from aborted fetuses to treat heart disease according to a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery. In a session titled "Late Breaking... ... more

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Adult Stem Cell Breakthrough Ignored by Media and Politicians

Although adult stem cell research continues to produce concrete therapeutic applications and has shown feasibility in the treatment of most major diseases, media attention has been dismal. Instead, overtly positive articles focus on embryonic stem cell research, which requires the destruction of a human life.

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Another Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Successful Application

Doctors have successfully treated babies with a usually fatal genetic disorder of the brain by using stem-cell transplants from umbilical-cord blood. The successes, reported Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine, offer hope for victims of a host of... ... more

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Bush calls embryonic stem cell research the deliberate destruction of a human

President Bush made the right decision and took a public stand by again promised to veto legislation that would fund embryonic stem cell research using federal tax dollars. "The deliberate destruction of unique living self-integrated human persons is not some... ... more

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Britains Clone a Human Embryo

Scientists at Newcastle University have cloned a human embryo for the first time in Britain, a breakthrough that they hope will eventually lead to successful treatments for degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. The scientists announced their important advance... ... more

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Embryonic Stem Cells not Needed with Alternatives says President’s Council on Bioethics

Here is an informative article by LifeSiteNews: WASHINGTON, May 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The President’s Council on Bioethics, the body that advises President Bush on issues related to cloning, stem cell research and the new reproductive technologies, has issued a... ... more

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Adult Stem Cells Restore Eyesight

Another successful therapeutic application of adult stem cells has been reported and involves a pioneering new treatment shown to restore eyesight. The Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, developed the treatment over the past five years and has successfully helped 40... ... more

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Adult Stem Cells for Diabetes Treatment

US scientists believe they have found a way to use brain stem cells to "cure" diabetes. Although the work is not yet ready to be tested on human patients, results in animals have been promising, say the Stanford University researchers.... ... more

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Big Companies Pursue Embryonic Stem Cell Research

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some large companies in the United States are pursuing plans to study stem cells drawn from early stage human embryos, a newspaper said Tuesday, thrusting them into the heated debate over the controversial branch of drug... ... more

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Study Suggests Adult Stem Cells Can Heal Hearts

Adult stem cells continue to show promise and application.For the first time, researchers have found signs of stem cells in the hearts of rats, mice and humans after they were born. The fact that the cells, which form in the... ... more

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The President on Embryonic Stem Cell Research

During his State of the Union Address the President stated, I will work with Congress to ensure that human embryos are not created for experimentation or grown for body parts, and that human life is never bought and sold as... ... more

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Docs: Adult stem cells can repair all tissues

Scientists involved in a study at Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center have claimed that adult stem cells from bone marrow are capable of regenerating all types of tissue. If verified, these claims will remove a key, yet speculative, motivation for... ... more

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Michael J. Fox Promotes Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Wisconsin

Michael J. Fox will join Gov. Jim Doyle for a tour of the Waisman Center in Madison Feb. 1 in an effort to promote embryonic stem cell research [more here and here]. Doyle suggests that ESC research is consistent with... ... more

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Spleen Stem Cells Produce Potential Cures

Previously, researchers discovered that adult stem cells taken from the spleen could regenerate the insulin-producing islets of the pancreas. The finding is significant because it provides a potential cure for diabetes. The same team is now reporting that spleen adult... ... more

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U.S. Stem Cell Lines are Contaminated

A "newly" found blow to researchers:All human embryonic stem-cell lines approved for use in federally funded research are contaminated with a foreign molecule from mice that may make them risky for use in medical therapies, according to a study released.... ... more

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Embryonic Stems Cells are 'Useless'?

Before spending billions on embryonic stem cell research it would be a good idea to consider two significant issues. Here is the first:Most human embryonic stem-cell lines, including those available to federally funded researchers in the United States, may be... ... more

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Proponents of Embryonic Stem Cell Harvesting

Prothesis links to an insightful article related to the ethics of embryonic stem cell research. The author separates the ESC research proponents into two groups. The first believes that the embryo becomes a "person" at some undefined point in the... ... more

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Embryos are Humans of the Same Kind

Robert George and Patrick Lee have published what is one of the clearest statements I've read on the ethics of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research. Appearing in the New Atlantis, their article is titled Acorns and Embryos and is a... ... more

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Stem Cells Help Paraplegic Progress After Accident

Another successful application of adult stem cells.Susan, a paraplegic, and Laura, a quadraplegic, were told they would never walk again after separate debilitating automobile accidents damaged their spinal cords. However, both are beginning to do just that after transplant surgery... ... more

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Diabetes and Stem Cells Research

Type I diabetes, commonly diagnosed during childhood, is a condition in which the body does not produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is used in the body to process glucose by transporting it from blood into cells. Consequently, the... ... more

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Indian Scientists Treat 160 Eye Patients Using Adult Stem Cells

The successful use of adult and cord stem cells continue to be reported. Here is another, Researchers in India have used adult stem cells in the successful treatment of over 160 patients with damaged retinas. The announcement was made by... ... more

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Adult Stem Cells and Liver Disease

I'm not sure what stage this research has progressed to but the report is that adult stem cells may be used to treat cirrhosis of the liver. The increasing number of middle-aged patients with chronic liver disease caused by heavy... ... more

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Adult Stem Cell Research Success Continues to Grow

From Every Thought Captive - Stem Cell Update: Adult Stem Cells Still Doing Most of the Real Work - The world of stem cell research continues to spin, and the successes of non-embryonic stem cells continue to grow. Check out... ... more

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Stem cells extracted from a placenta

A group of researchers in Taiwan announced that they have successfully isolated a population of multipotent cells from a human placenta, which could be a new source of stem cells and could provide an alternative to embryonic stem cells or... ... more

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Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Treat Heart Disease

Stem cells from umbilical cord blood have effectively treated heart attacks in animals, suggesting a new source of cells for human treatments. BetterHumans reports: "Cord blood stem cells may be more amenable to repairing hearts," says study coauthor Paul Sanberg.... ... more

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Adult Stem Cells Treat Disease of the Central Nervous System

StemCells, Inc., a development-stage company at the forefront of adult stem cell research, has filed its first Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval to use adult human brain cells in clinical... ... more

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The Morality of Human Cloning for Stem Cell Research

According to the Associated Press, the creators of Dolly the sheep, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult, want to create cloned human embryos for stem cell research. For those who read this blog it should come as no... ... more

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Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Make Red Blood Cells

French scientists found a way to make large quantities of red blood cells from [non-embryonic] stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood. - Bloomberg... ... more

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Answers from Umbilical Cord Adult Stem Cells

With the recent California $3 billion hype surrounding the potential application of embryonic stem cell research, many have gotten the erroneous impression that stem cells (umbilical cord and adult) have not been successfully applied and lack the potential to treat... ... more

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Ethical Embryonic Stem Cell Research Proposed

Reports of "ethical" embryonic stem cells first caught my attention several weeks ago at the Evangelical Outpost. Here is one such method that claims to produce stem cells that are quasi-embryonic without destroying a life: British scientists say they have... ... more

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Adult Stem Cells May Reverse Cirrhosis of the Liver

UK researchers are pioneering tests of the use of adult stem cells which could reverse cirrhosis of the liver. [more]... ... more

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Embryonic Stem Cells without an Embryo?

This post and related comments at the Evangelical Outpost are worth a looking at. I haven't studied and will not comment (yet) on the claim that there is a morally acceptable means for procuring ESCs through a technique known as... ... more

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Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Testimonial from Russia: Spinal Cord Injuries Reversed

Previously I commented on the seemingly miraculous reversal of paralysis by Korean researchers using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood. It appears the Russians have developed a therapy to treat spinal cord damage using stem cells derived from the... ... more

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Adult Stem Cells Treat Incontinence

Cells are removed from muscle tissue in the patient's arm, cultured in a lab, and injected into the wall of the urethra and the sphincter muscle. This prevents urinary incontinence - sometimes within 24 hours - by building up muscle... ... more

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Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Used for Leukemia Treatment

Umbilical cord blood, now used mostly to treat children with leukemia, could save thousands of adults with the disease each year who cannot find bone marrow donors, two large studies indicate. [more]... ... more

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Adult Stem Cell Therapy Used to Treat Vision Loss

Some amazing developments are being reported in adult stem cell research, raising new questions about the wisdom of engaging in destructive embryonic stem cell research. Researchers have now shown that transplanted adult stem cells can improve vision in eyes that... ... more

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Stem Cell Therapy Reportedly Reverses Paralysis

The Korea Times reported that Korean researchers, using stem cells isolated from umbilical cord blood, succeeded in reversing the paralysis of the lower limbs caused by a spinal cord injury suffered by a 37 year-old female in 1985. Note that... ... more

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Debate on Stem Cell Research

One of my disappointments in the debate was the answer each candidate, and particularly Bush, gave on the topic of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR). While there is no surprise over my stark disagreement with Kerry, I found Bush walking... ... more

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Adult Stem Cell Research Grows

While controversy continues to rage over embryonic stem cell research, the adult stem cell research industry is experiencing rapid growth. For instance, Cord Blood Registry, the world's largest adult stem cell bank, last week reported a growth rate of 83... ... more

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Embryonic Research and Abortion

Abortion has slowly taken an amazing turn and is now performed in the laboratory for the purpose of medical research aimed at curing disease. Washington Post The scientific and political tug of war over human embryo research escalated yesterday as... ... more

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