Make Like a Firefly
January 24, 2013
...according to Science Daily. A team of researchers from international hospitals designed a stretchable polymer that will allow stem cells to be positioned where needed. The abstract of the paper...
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Give Me Liberalism and Give Me Death
January 9, 2013
...is that during the interim more researchers turned to research on adult stem cells that do not raise ethical issues (5/23/2011). 2. Planned unParenthood: It’s undeniable that Democrats, liberals and...
Red Blood Cells Are Frisbees, Tanks and Wheels
December 30, 2012
Cells as commonplace as red blood cells still keep researchers wondering how they perform their job so well. Red blood cells (RBCs), also called erythrocytes, are unique for their biconcave...
Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs Continue
November 28, 2012
...cells into cells that function like much younger ones, may one day enable scientists to grow cardiac patches for damaged or diseased hearts from a patient’s own stem cells —...
Weekend Grab Bag
October 14, 2012
...6 patients with heart disease cured by adult stem cells has been called into question. The Stem Cell Research Facts website, though, tells the true story of a fitness instructor...
Why Exercise Builds Muscle
September 24, 2012
You have stem cells alongside your muscles that provide a ready pool of new muscle cells. In special “niches” alongside muscle cells, muscle progenitor stem cells are at the ready....
Epigenetics Leads the Genetics News
August 21, 2012
...keeping stem cells from differentiating until the time is right. “In a finding that could be important to the use of all kinds of stem cells in treating disease, scientists...
Stem Cells Getting Healthier
May 6, 2012
...the article said. The good work continues to come from adult stem cells and iPS cells which, unlike embryonic stem cells (ES), are ethically sound (not involving the destruction of...
Body Talk
January 7, 2012
...have identified adult stem cells of the central nervous system in a single layer of cells at the back of the eye. Amazingly, these cells are produced in the embryo...
Cells Optimize Their Tasks
December 28, 2011
...mileage. In the heyday of “faster, better, cheaper” spacecraft, engineers often joked, “pick any two.” In the same way, living cells have to optimize their operations. A couple of recent...
Follow the Stem Cell Money
November 15, 2011
...adult stem cells for heart failure.” New Scientist: “Breast-milk stem cells may bypass ethical dilemmas.” PhysOrg: “Reprogramming stem cells to a more basic form results in more effective transplant, study...
Preventing Aging Through Darwin-Free Science
November 3, 2011
...donating cells that can be regenerated like new: “Older stem cells are not as robust as young ones,” this article claimed. If they are robust, why not store them like...
Human Cloning Advanced Despite Ethics
October 6, 2011
...has shown conclusively that embryonic stem cells are better than iPSCs. Meanwhile, exciting advances continue to pour forth on adult stem cells, as shown by a recent Science Daily article. ...
Are Embryonic Stem Cells Obsolete?
September 11, 2011
...infused with retinal cells derived from embryonic stem cells, but it was not clear that adult stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) couldn’t work just as well. In...
When Science Gets Political
August 7, 2011
...that success with adult stem cells is not “a panacea that make embryonic stem cells redundant”. His article did not mention ethics. A Nature editorial August 4 also presented cautious...