Who’s who in iPS cell field: update
Spring End Nov. 2011 Here is an updated–Who’s who in the iPS cell field? […]
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Is a fertilized egg a Californian? Personhood movement brings battle to California
Remember those folks who were pushing an amendment in Mississippi that would have defined the one cell fertilized egg as a full blown person with all the same rights as a living, breathing, thinking Mississippian? Now the new battlefront for their movement is California. They want to get an initiative on the ballot to make
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Why Horton was wrong: a person is not a person no matter how small, even in Mississippi
Tomorrow night voters in Mississippi will vote on the so-called “Personhood Amendment”. If passed, the amendment would make a fertilized egg by definition a human being with the same rights as a living, breathing, thinking, walking person in the state of Mississippi. The consequences are not clear, but possibilities include such things as complete bans on
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The New Scientist goes after ES cells with strange opinion piece
What the heck happened to The New Scientist? An anti-embryonic stem cell piece they just recently published was an exercise in weird, moral obfuscation. Quite a few scientists and policy makers are fairly regular readers of The New Scientist. They might start reconsidering how they want to spend that $99/year. Why not use it to
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Is it fair to tell a patient to be patient?
When I talk to people about stem cell science and the timeline for turning data into treatments and cures, their reactions completely depend on whom they are. Scientists are patient, perhaps too patient….perhaps too understanding of the many years that we are told that science takes to get something to the clinic. Patients and patient
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Sports Medicine and Stem Cells: a miraculous or disastrous combo?
As the list of star athletes and other celebs that have received dubious stem cell treatments grows longer, I don’t think there is any question but that this turn of events will be the spark that drives hundreds of ordinary people to get similar treatments for themselves or for their kids who are either budding,
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Anti-cure impact of Errant EU stem cell patent decision
There has been concern for months about the direction that the European Union was heading in regards to intellectual property (IP) rights and stem cell patent approaches. Now, a definitive decision banning embryonic stem cell (ESC)-based patents by the EU Court has dealt a severe blow to stem cell science in Europe. The European Court
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Doctor indicted in Vegas for alleged fake stem cell scam
It was only a few weeks ago that I reported that the federal government would very soon be taking more legal action against purveyors of dubious, potentially illegal stem cell treatments that might even be called a stem cell scam. Here’s the first of what is likely to be many more actions. Many media outlets
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Why all the fuss about SCNT-derived ES cell paper?
This past week a paper came out in Nature that reported the successful production of human ES cells using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) technology. It is no exaggeration to say that this paper generated massive international media coverage, in part because of the links between this technology and the potential for human cloning, both
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Take our poll on the new triploid SCNT-derived ES cells
New human ES cell lines have been made using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). The new ES cells lines are genetically abnormal in that they have three sets of chromosomes instead of two. Two experts, Bob Lanza of ACT and Miodrag Stojkovic of University of Kragujevac in Serbia both are quoted by Nature News
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