The Vatican is currently hosting The Second International Vatican Adults Stem Cell Conference. Regenerative Medicine: A Fundamental Shift in Science and Culture Hope I can get to present Andy & Sofia story at the Vatican someday.
Stem Cell Transplant
Postura del Magisterio de la Iglesia Católica
Estimado Sr. Trevino, Agradezco su correo y paso a responderle. En primer lugar, aclararle que yo no tengo la posibilidad de facilitarle la forma en la que pueda presentar lo que me expone en su correo en el Vaticano. Por otra parte, sin juzgar en absoluto la decisión que ustedes tomaron ni al sacerdote que…
Six years ago today
6 years ago today Andy received Sofia’s stem cells. Thank you list: To the people that took care of Andy while in the hospital (more or less in a chronological order): – Gracias Vero por estar ahí con nosotros el día que nació Andy. – Dr. Maya, gracias por enseñarnos que algunos doctores simplemente están muy saturados.– Dr. Maulen,…
Stem cell research at Children’s Hospital Boston
A YEAR SINCE OBAMA’S LIFTING OF BAN ON STEM CELL FUNDING, BOSTON TEAM READY TO DISTRIBUTE LINES WORLDWIDE BUT OBSTACLES REMAIN. NEW WEBSITE TO END PUBLIC CONFUSION AND PUSH SCIENCE FORWARD Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston Aim to Demystify Science and Share Potential for Treatments and Cures on Range of Diseases from Diabetes to Parkinson’s…
Pope talks about Dignitas Personae
Here’s the news I received regarding the Pope. I can speak for families like mine that face life threatening decisions and depend on world changing biomedical research. I’ve seeked for the truth and respecfully disagree with most of the content of the Dignitas Personae document. Amen
USA Today – Embryo genetic screening controversial – and successful
Article about Molly & Adam Nash with quotes Oleg Verlinsky who is now running the Reroductive Genetics Institute in Chicago after his father Yury passed away last June. Yury gave us a dicount to do the PGD lab setup for NEMO in his Lab. USA Today article here.
You can help Jackson Merriman who has NEMO and is having a bone marrow stem cell transplant
Jackson is having a transplant. Jackson Merriman is the son of Doug and Melissa Merriman. He was born NEMO. The only hope for a cure for the immune deficiency is a bone marrow transplant which Jackson will be undergoing in the spring in Denver, Colorado. The family has turned to Children’s Organ Transplant Association(COTA) to…
Via NPR – Reflecting on a decade of stem cell research
In 2001 Bush said,“I have concluded that we should allow federal funds to be used for research on these existing stem cell lines, where the life-and-death decision has already been made,”In 2009 Obama said,“With the executive order I am about to sign, we will bring the change that so many scientists and researchers, doctors and…
Boston gets first public cord-blood bank
“It’s a great way to use a biological resource to give people hope for the future,” said Barbieri. “It’s a gift of life.” Donating cord blood to a private bank can be a waste of both money and an important biological resource that is more likely to be used if donated rather than stored in…
British grandmother is oldest person to donate stem cells via telegraph.co.uk
A British grandmother has become the oldest person ever to donate stem cells – to save her younger brother’s life. Erica Henderson, 75, has been allowed to transfer her cells to Paul Hallowes despite being too old under medical guidelines. Mr Hallowes, 69, had been diagnosed with leukaemia and a high dose chemotherapy had severely…