Wow. A child with cerebral palsy who suffered a cardiac arrest and became — they thought — permanently unconscious, appears to have been successfully treated with his own stored umbilical cord blood stem cells. From...
Read MoreAt present, there are three small human safety embryonic stem cell studies. All deal with macular degeneration-type conditions. And now, a human trial looks to soon get underway in Japan using induced pluripotent stem cells...
Read MoreWhen Chloe Levine was just 9 months old her parents noticed that she didn’t use her right hand to hold her bottle. Then they noticed she wasn’t crawling and instead chose to bounce herself around using her weaker right leg only...
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Read MoreThis is exactly how one stem cell researcher in Canada felt about Obama’s recent win. Obama and his Democratic colleagues have said a top priority will be to relax the Bush administration funding restrictions on embryonic...
Read MoreFrom Today’s Investor – Heaven forbid they celebrate the new stem cell breakthrough!”John Edwards had a lot he wanted to say at the Democratic National Committee’s fall meeting on Nov. 30.In a fiery...
Read MoreAmen to that! The Yorkshire Post today has more on Ian Wilmut’s decision to stop his cloning research and pursue the latest developments with iPS cells.”It’s very exciting, but it took quite a few months for me...
Read MoreYesterday I was invited to provide written commentary on the stem cell breakthrough for National Review on line. Here’s what I wrote, and you can read the other commentaries provided by leaders such as Leon Kass, William...
Read MoreBanking on Your Future, a guest commentary by Dr. Peter Hollands Hardly a day goes by without a new revelation in stem cell technology. When I first worked in this field nearly 30 years ago there was little interest in stem...
Read More“Women giving birth in Pittsburgh will have the option to make an altruistic decision with life-saving potential starting today. “Modeled after the process of blood banking of donated blood, parents in Pittsburgh can...
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