Scientists have discovered a new kind of stem cell. In the Dec. 10 issue of Nature, a group of international researchers led by Andras Nagy from Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto reprogrammed adult...
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Many developments in stem cell research have been made since the promise of human embryonic stem cells was a staple of headlines in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The evidence now indicates that...
The man who discovered induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has received the 2012 Nobel Prize for medicine. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, a researcher from Kyoto University, developed a new process in 2...
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Toronto scientists at Mount Sinai Hospital have discovered problems in using reprogrammed stem cells for personalized organ repair. “It looks like the reprogramming process which creates (embry...
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From a pro-life perspective, President George W. Bush may have been less than perfect, but in comparison to his successor, he is looking ever better. Bush devotes an entire chapter of his compell...
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National Affairs correspondent Rory Leishman points out yet another shocking disregard for human life on the part of the Obama administration. The post Obama’s stem cell policy appeared firs...
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The very real possibility of an immanent ethical stem cell breakthrough has many researchers in the US and Canada excited. The post Toronto researchers may have found ethical alternative to ESC...
The Interim editor Paul Tuns takes a look at Obama’s recent anti-life decisions regarding embryonic stem cell research. The post The audacity of stem cell hype appeared first on The Interim ...
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A much-celebrated breakthrough that turns adult skin cells to embryonic-like stem cells is not the solution to the problem of destroying embryos for pluripotent stem cells. In November, Dr. Shiny...
Researchers at the Institute of Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University in Salem, N.C. have discovered a type of cell that floats freely in the amniotic fluid of pregnant women and has ma...
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