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SHOCK: Obama Signs Bill Banning Federal Funding of Embryonic Stem Cells
3/13/2009 1:20:00 PM
President Obama signed H.R. 1105, the “Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 (aka omnibus appropriations bill) on Wednesday which included a hidden provision that explicitly bans federal funding of any "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death." This bill is counter to the claims of Obama made just Monday where "sc...
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Executive Order: REMOVING BARRIERS TO RESPONSIBLE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN STEM CELLS
3/9/2009 1:00:00 PM
The text of President Obama's Executive Order lifting restrictions on Federal funding of embryonic stem cells.
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Speech: Obama Authorizes Federal Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research March 9 2009
3/9/2009 11:45:00 AM
President Obama authorizes Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research by signing an Executive Order.
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Policy: Obama Signs Executive Order Authorizing Federal Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
3/9/2009 11:45:00 AM
President Obama signed an Executive Order authorizing Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research - overturning President Bush's ban on such funding. Stay tuned for the details of the order.
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FLASH: Policy: Obama to Sign Embryonic Stem Cell Executive Order Monday
3/6/2009 4:06:00 PM
President Obama will sign an executive order Monday authorizing Federal funds to be used in embryonic stem cell research. This was widely expected. However, it is ironic this funding will be available just as embryonic stem cells may not be needed with the recent advances in 'artificial' embryonic stem cells (aka iPS or induced pluripotent cells).
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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 ...
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Deal: Stem Cells Inc. Diversifies with Embryonic Stem Cell Acquisition
3/6/2009 8:40:00 AM
US based Stem Cells, Inc. (StemCells) acquires UK and Australia based Stem Cell Sciences plc in $5 million stock and cash deal. This is StemCells's gambit to diversify from being solely an adult stem cell business into being a global provider of embryonic stem cells, induced stem cells (artificial embryonic), and adult stem cells.
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Breakthrough: UCLA Team Creates Nerve Cells From Skin - Bypassing Embryos
2/25/2009 10:27:00 AM
A team from the University of California Los Angeles led by William Lowry, created the first motor neurons from artificial embryonic stem cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, which were in turn created from ordinary skin cells. This has huge implications for the debate over the use of and need for embryonic stem cells. Their next step is to attach their neur...
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Further Advance in Artificial Stem Cells - Blood Platelets Created
2/9/2009 12:28:00 PM
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Kyoto University's Shinya Yamanaka and University of Tokyo's Naoya Takayama were the first in the world to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) cells (think artificial embryonic stem cells) using skin cells from mice in 2006, then in humans in November 2007. They have now proceeded to the next step by creating blood platelets using these cells. Editors Video: What are Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells? June 25 2008 2/9/2009 6:00:00 AM
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells were developed in 2007 by Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University. Dr. Yamanaka and his team derived the cells by adding proteins that reprogram adults cells, reverting them to their embryonic state. "These new cells are expected to live for a very long time while retaining the ability to form all of the different tissues found in a human body. iPSC cells do no...
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Breakthrough: Australia Creates its First 'Artificial' Embryonic Stem Cells from Skin Cells
2/2/2009 9:30:00 AM
Australian scientists have produced their nation's first human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells - cells that act like embryonic stem cells but instead were made from adult skin cells. They now join the club of nations, Japan and the United States, that can skirt around the ethical issues of obtaining stem cells from embryos. |
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