Astronauts Lose Red Blood Cells
January 18, 2022
...a human body on earth destroys and makes red blood cells (RBC). In space, however, the destruction rate is 54% higher: 3 million RBCs are destroyed per second. That’s out...
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More Proof Life Begins at Conception
December 22, 2021
...all cells, and embryo cells are no exception. This means that it is essential for parental (sperm and egg) genomes to awaken in the new embryo. But when and how...
Your Body Constantly Fights Cancer
December 21, 2021
...normal epithelial cells at the boundary with precancerous cells. Finally, normal epithelial cells push the precancerous cells out of the epithelium to eliminate them from the body. This comprises “a...
On Vaccines and Fetal Tissue, Wisdom Is Required
October 26, 2021
...all 200-plus cell types (skin, nerve, muscle, blood, etc.). In contrast to embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells and cord blood stem cells are only multipotent, capable of giving rise...
Stem Cell Update: Where Are the Cures?
October 8, 2021
...Cells The two main types of stem cells are Embryonic Stem Cells, cells taken from an embryo, and induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS or iPSCs), undifferentiated adult cells capable of...
Scientists Chip Away at Ethics
May 27, 2021
...founded in 2002, produced its original standards for human embryonic stem cell research in 2006, followed closely in 2008 with guidelines for the use of such cells in clinical settings....
Scientists Pushing Ethical Lines with Human Embryos
March 20, 2021
...or secrete tears. They used ethically-neutral adult stem cells, not embryonic stem cells. Such cells form tiny replicas of the organs from which they were extracted, called organoids. They hope...
Scientists Apologize for Racism, cont: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
December 28, 2020
...and were not consulted on other medical decisions stemming from the use of the cells in research. Glass eyes of a type used in the twentieth century for ‘racial’ classification....
Scientists Apologize for Racist Behavior Toward Henrietta Lacks
December 21, 2020
...2020. “Wealthy funder pays reparations for use of HeLa cells.” Nature 587:20-21, November 5. [5] British Society for Immunology. 1951. “HeLa cells.” https://www.immunology.org/hela-cells-1951 [6] Bardeguez, Okuda K., et al. 2002....
Scientists Didn’t Need California’s Stem-Cell Windfall
November 19, 2020
...were jobs created and facilities built. But cures from embryonic stem cells didn’t materialize. In the meantime, scientific attention turned to the more ethical iPSC technology (induced pluripotent stem cells)....
Seeing Cells Is Seeing Complex Organization
October 2, 2020
...writer Amber Dance described what it was like to see closer into the cell. Clodagh O’Shea will never forget the moment in early 2015 when she peered at the cell’s...
Plants Use a Compass
September 28, 2020
Plants have a compass that guides their stem cells. No Darwinism in this discovery from Stanford. Researchers find ‘cellular compass’ guides stem cell division in plants (Stanford University). “Biologists observing...
Cells Model Sustainable Lifestyles
September 9, 2020
...called autophagosomes. Autophagosomes fuse with lysosomes for degradation of the engulfed material. The paper shows how cells can handle wealth and poverty. When nutrients are plenty, autophagy works. When cells...
Big Science: Lean to the Left
July 13, 2020
...even after birth in some cases, and expect taxpayers to pay for it. Additionally, they want no restrictions on the use of aborted human tissue and embryonic stem cells for...
Blood Cells Act as Multi-Purpose Truckers
July 10, 2020
...tissues where they differentiate into macrophages (cells that engulf and destroy pathogens and apoptotic cells) or dendritic cells (cells that process antigen material and present it on the cell surface...