Editors   Is Farah Fawcett Fighting Cancer with Stem Cell Therapy in Germany?   4/10/2009 9:40:00 AM    
Farrah Fawcett was diagnosed with cancer in 2006 and was originally treated at The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with chemotherapy and radiation.

Her spokesman, producer Craig Nevius, announced late Monday the cancer has spread to her liver.

Several unsubstantiated reports say Fawcett has been receiving stem cell treatments in Germany, possibly for more than year. Nevius denie...

Editors   Breakthrough: Induced Stem Cells Now Made Cancer Free   3/6/2009 9:30:00 AM    
Since 2007, scientists have been able to reprogram adult stem cells, like skin, into (artificial) embryonic stem cells by using viruses or genes. However, these inserted viruses or genes had the potential to cause cancer or other problems.

Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch' stem cell research team at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., recently found a way to ...

Editors   Breakthrough: Scientists Can Now Tell The Difference Between a Normal Stem Cell and Cancer Stem Cell   1/9/2009 3:30:00 PM    
Canadian scientists have announced for the first time how to tell the difference between normal stem cells and cancer stem cells in humans.

In time, this will allow doctors to kill the cancerous cells, and to only grow good cells.