Stem Cells Archive

The US House on Saturday December 20th. passed 413-0 an amended version of a bill (HR 2520) that would authorize $79 million in federal funding for the collection and storage of umbilical cord blood. Objective: To provide for the collection and maintenance of human cord blood stem cells for

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Big news back in May about the south Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk who claimed to have made stem cells tailored to match an individual. Then big news again claiming that Hwang used the same picture for what was supposed to be different cells. So now the race is

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Umbilical cord stem cell bank in the UK is marketing to grandparents. A British-based company says grandparents looking for a gift with a twist are increasingly investing in stem cells for their grandchildren…The reason to store stem cells is future applications for stem cells. You only get one chance

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Back in May there was a lot of talk about a paper from a Korean scientist that claimed he was able to make stem cells tailored to match an individual for the first time…The paper was published in the journal Science. “The resultant cells were a perfect match for

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Seems that the Danish Monarchy believes in umbilical cord stem cell banking. Monarchy website, A Prince is born Royal Danish prince’s stem cells saved November 27, 2005 STEM cells from the umbilical cord of Australian-born Princess Mary’s baby son have been preserved in a Denmark hospital, possibly as insurance

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This is what I think: This is just going around in circles.. Help is urgently needed for sick people who can benefit from treatments with these types of cells and researchers should have access to more resources. This is what the headlines say: Biologists last week revealed details of

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Harvard Stem Cell Institute August 22, 2005: A new study by Kevin Eggan, Douglas Melton, and colleagues offers hope that it might be possible in the future to produce embryonic stem cells without using human embryos. The Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers will report in the Aug. 26 edition

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Of stem cells, what would Gandhi say? By Pankaj Mishra The New York Times MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2005 … American scientists and businessmen note enviously that religious and moral considerations do not seem to inhibit Indian biotechnologists. But this indifference to ethical issues would have certainly appalled Gandhi, father

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GEORGE QUENTIN DALEY, MD, PhD Associate Director, Stem Cell Program at Children’s Hospital Boston Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School “Science certainly cannot define when in the gradual course of human development we deserve individual and autonomous

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