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Health

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...
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Health

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...
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Cell Biology

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...
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Politics and Ethics

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....
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Politics and Ethics

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...
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Politics and Ethics

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....
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Politics and Ethics

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....
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Politics and Ethics

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)....
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Cell Biology

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...
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Botany

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...
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Cell Biology

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...
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Media

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...
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Human Body

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...
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Human Body

Our Senses Did Not Evolve
June 22, 2020
...cochlear outer hair cells (PNAS). This Darwin-free research paper describes wonders in the inner ear, and how failure of particular links between hair cells can lead to deafness. The fine-tuning...
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Politics and Ethics

Research on Embryonic Stem Cells Takes Dangerous Turns
June 12, 2020
...respect. Embryonic Stem Cells: Pushing the Ethical Envelope It’s been awhile since we reported on embryonic stem cells (ESC). Unlike adult stem cells (ASC) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC),...
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