Tag: stem cells
Blog Posts (73)
March 11, 2009
Harvard Undergrads Getting into the Stem Cell Business
In the hopes of riding the wave of this week’s Executive Order allowing federal research involving embryonic stem cells, Harvard University has announced a new stem cell biology undergraduate major.…
March 9, 2009
Caplan Weighs In On Obama Stem Cell Policy
Arthur Caplan writes today in his MSNBC column that the US government finally has a “coherent stem cell policy.” To watch a video of President Obama’s announcement about lifting the stem cell research ban, click here.…
March 2, 2009
Stem Cell Treatment Tourism Reported on the Local News!
Southern Illinois Man Seeks Stem Cell Cure in China. That’s the headline. From KFVS12, Live from the Heartland. Meanwhile, Midwesterners are raffling off big ticket items to make it possible for Chuck Melton, sufferer of a spinal cord injury, to make multiple trips to China, to receive umbilical cord stem cell treatments not available in the United States.…
February 11, 2009
Can You Hear Van Halen Playing In The Background?
A new report issued by the Center for Genetics and Society has been released titled, “Responsible Federal Oversight of New Human Biotechnologies: Opportunities for the New Administration”.…
January 28, 2009
Fertility Fix from Adult Stem Cells?
According to LA Times’ Booster Shots, IPS cells have been coaxed into becoming germ cells that could allow infertile couples to conceive from healthy sperm and egg cells.…
January 23, 2009
A Well-Timed Step Forward
Today, the FDA announced its approval of the first stem cell clinical trial in human beings. Geron will perform the trial on 10 spinal cord injured patients.…
December 3, 2008
New Stem Cell Guidelines from ISSCR
Today the International Society for Stem Cell Research (www.isscr.org) is releasing “Guidelines for the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells,” which co-chair of the ISSCR task force, Olle Lindvall, MD, PhD, calls a “roadmap.” The long-awaited report condemns websites that hawk bogus stem cell therapies to the desperately ill.…
November 11, 2008
Caplan on Change Coming for Stem Cells
Arthur Caplan is conjecturing that the battle over stem cells may be coming to an end with the coming Obama administration, on MSNBC.com.…
November 10, 2008
Iran Loves Stem Cells
According to Payvand’s Iran News, Iran’s Cord Blood Bank has announced that the government of Iran will be investing $2.5 billion over 5 years to study stem cells.…
November 5, 2008
Michigan to Let Loose on Stem Cells?
Although polling in the weeks before Election Day 2008 did not look promising and there was fierce opposition to Michigan’s Proposal 2 to loosen the state’s restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, I can report that at 1:09 AM on November 5th the stem cell research ballot initiative was leading in the voting 53% YES to 47% NO with 76% of precincts reporting.…