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World's Second Human Trials of Embryonic Stem Cells May Make the Blind See Again
4/20/2009 11:00:00 AM
In what would be the second human trials of embryonic stem cells (the first for spinal cord injuries), a UK team is applying for regulatory approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the Human Tissue Authority, in order to replace damaged cells caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness. Embryonic stem cells will be re...
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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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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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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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