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New Stem Cell Method Could Ease Ethical Concerns By GINA KOLATA Published: November 21, 2007 Two teams of scientists are reporting today that they turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo — a feat that could quell

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Save a Dying Child: Have Another One Families Use Genetic Selection to Have a Baby to Save Their Other Child’s Life Most parents would do anything to keep their children safe. But what can parents do when their child is sick with a deadly disease and requires a bone

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A new category for my blog. Strange IVF News.   Here is the first one from Australia: IVF accident Updated: 23:24, Friday October 12, 2007 A Victorian woman has launched legal action against a Melbourne IVF clinic, after her embryos were dropped on the floor, killing most of them. The

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    MPs call for embryo change to allow ‘saviour siblings’ By Colin Brown Published: 01 August 2007 Restrictions on the use of embryo technology to produce “saviour siblings” with parts that can be used to treat brothers or sisters should be eased, a group of peers and MPs will

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Praying for Simon. This from Simon’s Mom, I cannot believe I am even posting this, almost a year to the date of us going home last year after transplant number one, I am asking that you pray long and hard for our son this weekend at one of the

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210 miles above Earth, Expedition 14 crew member Sunita Williams will attempt to do something no other astronaut has ever done. She will run the Boston Marathon while in orbit. The 41-year-old plans to run the 26.2-mile race on a treadmill onboard the International Space Station. The Boston Athletic

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MIT Technology Review interviewed a bioethicist at the Univ. of Pennsylvania who studies the ethical issues surrounding PGD. Shaping Babies The number of genetic tests that can be performed during in vitro fertilization is skyrocketing. What does this mean for human reproduction? …doctors, clinicians, and their ethical-review boards are

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According to Professor Richard Gardner, a stem cell expert based at Oxford University, people are “emphasising the promise” and “failing to highlight the problems that are yet to be overcome”. “And in the meantime,” he says, “there is the real concern about the stem cell cowboys.” “You’ve got these

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Bien por el ISSTE. Respecto a Cyocell: Treinta mil cordones almacenados en Cryocell…. Cobran de inscripción $890 us. (plan basico 1 año) y luego $109.25 us. anuales. Llevan por lo menos ingresos de 26.7 millones de dolares de inscripciones!! Y tambien ingresos de casi 3.3 millones de dólares por

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