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Cell Biology

Embryonic Stem Cell Advocates Push Against Evidence and Ethics
January 2, 2011
...treatment for blindness, while Geron Corporation is going to try ES cells on spinal cord injuries.     “The major concern with stem cell therapies is that the transforming cells...
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Amazing Facts

Cells Manage Stress and Death
December 4, 2010
...suicide for the good of the organism.  Two papers in Science describe how cells do it.     DNA damage is like an emergency in the field.  Fortunately, cells have...
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Bible and Theology

Stem Cells of the Adult Kind Steal the Headlines
November 18, 2010
...stem cells (iPSC) in their experiments. Fat for the heart:  Stem cells derived from fat may be safe in humans, said another story in Science Daily. Arthritis hope:  Stem cells...
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Amazing Facts

Cells Can Be Transformed
November 8, 2010
...of producing adult-type l blood cells instead of fetal blood cells, a major advantage compared to the thus far disappointing attempts to produce blood cells from human ESCs [embryonic stem...
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Amazing Facts

Cells Know Their Physics
October 27, 2010
...overlook.  Two recent papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explored physical mechanisms cells use to good advantage.  Good thing cells know their physics, or we could...
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Cell Biology

Big Gains for Adult Stem Cells Announced
October 4, 2010
...the progress being made with stem cell therapy.  The ability to reprogram adult stem cells to behave just like embryonic stem cells really “electrified the field,” said biologist Rudolf Jaenisch. ...
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Cell Biology

Ethics Shmethics: Scientists Obsessed with Embryonic Stem Cells
September 26, 2010
...view of the rapidly evolving field of stem cell research” including both adult and embryonic stem cells.  The article noted that “apart from the scientific and technical challenges, there are...
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Amazing Facts

Piston Engine Joins Rotary Engine in Cells
September 22, 2010
...There are, of course, big open questions – not least, how the gradients might have been tapped by the earliest cells, which certainly lacked such sophisticated protein machinery as the...
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Cell Biology

Embryonic Stem Cell Researchers Reeling from Judge’s Decision
September 3, 2010
...intercepted with adult stem cells.  “Human umbilical cord blood cells (HUCB) used to treat cultured rat brain cells (astrocytes) deprived of oxygen appear to protect astrocytes from cell death after...
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Amazing Facts

Specialized Molecules Make Cells Work
August 9, 2010
Reports continue to show that vital cell processes depend on finely-tuned proteins and RNA molecules.  Most of the papers that discuss these specialized molecules fail to mention how they might...
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Cell Biology

Stem Cell News: Adults Still Lead
August 6, 2010
Stem cells are still hot.  Most of the significant findings are coming from adult stem cells (AS) or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) rather than embryonic stem cells (ES).  For...
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Cell Biology

Heal the Blind with Stem Cells
June 30, 2010
...in one eye by burns or acid.  Stem cells taken from the limbus, a disk surrounding the iris, and transplanted onto the damaged cornea, were able to regrow corneal cells...
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Cell Biology

Stem Cells: Hope, Politics, Charity, and Clarity
May 30, 2010
...or whether adult stem cells, such as induced pluripotent stem cells, could work just as well. An article on both embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells in Science Daily this...
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Stem Cells Promise Regeneration
March 31, 2010
...that none of these stories talked about embryonic stem cells.  Most of the stories about embryonic stem [ES] cells this month discussed efforts to understand how they grow and differentiate...
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Cell Biology

Stem Cell News: Cancer Cures Coming?
January 18, 2010
...creation and destruction of human embryos and/or the harvesting of human egg cells.  To revisit the shameful news about embryonic stem cells over the last decade, type “embryonic stem cells”...
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