Intelligent Design Is Leading Biology's Golden Age
January 12, 2016
...Made up mostly of stem cells, it seems to be immortal. A researcher at Pomona College is intrigued; could we learn the secrets of aging by studying this little creature?...
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Were Our Bodies Created for Self-Repair?
October 30, 2015
...cells from embryos (ES cells) could provide a wealth of new cells but spark ethical objections. Stem cells produced from adult cells (so-called induced pluripotent stem [iPS] cells) avoid the...
Scientific Ethics: A Reader Digest
October 25, 2015
...differentiation is enough to give cells ‘stemness’ (PhysOrg): A new shortcut to stem cells, from research on adult stem cells. Cardiac muscle cells as good as progenitors for heart repair...
Adult Stem Cells Outpace Embryonics
October 8, 2015
...article pits adult stem cells against embryonic stem cells by discussing “Muse cells” found in a variety of tissues, including bone marrow, fat tissues and skin. “Muse cells are unique...
Built-in Brain Designs that Amaze Scientists
August 31, 2015
...has important role in support cells for the retina (Science Daily): Remember Müller cells, the waveguides that transfer photons directly to the photoreceptors (see 2/27/15)? They rely on a receptor...
Adult Stem Cells Coming of Age
August 22, 2015
...Xpress says, “The strategy depends on first reprogramming the patient cells to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and then introducing a gene that differentiates the iPS cells to muscle cells.”...
Trafficking in Human Parts Nothing New
August 2, 2015
...voted against it. Embryonic Stem Cells We’ve reported scientists affirming that ethically clean iPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cells derived from adult tissues) work just as well as embryonic stem...
Science Site Rationalizes Sales of Baby Body Parts
July 18, 2015
The video that shocked the nation—Planned Parenthood selling fetal organs—is whitewashed by a science website. This is a story about how evil can be spun to be not quite so...
Bioethics: Into the Storm Without an Anchor
June 14, 2015
...Fetal cells were injected into a man’s brain to try to cure his Parkinson’s disease. “It takes cells from at least three fetuses to treat each half of the brain.”...
Dino Soft Tissue Confirms Creationist Prediction
June 10, 2015
...is consistent with potential preservation of the original quaternary structure of the protein.” Blood cells were found. Though shrunken in size, this confirms Schweitzer’s original claim of finding blood cells....
CRISPR Opens Pandora's Box
June 5, 2015
...impact on the ecology. Cells could be weaponized for biological warfare. And the prospect of “designer babies” looms larger than ever. One doesn’t have to look too far down that...
Neanderthal News and the Limits of Organic Material Survival
May 13, 2015
...ago. And if Neanderthal man’s DNA was already decaying beyond recognition, and Iceman’s red blood cells were hard to recover, that means that the red blood cells found in a...
Epigenome Project Finds Symphony in Cells
February 21, 2015
...research into how chromatin architecture is reorganized during stem cell differentiation. A paper about transcription factor binding dynamics during embryonic stem cell differentiation. A letter about using epigenetic footprinting to...
Adult Stem Cells Beat Clones
November 24, 2014
...of these aberrations than embryonic stem cells derived from an unfertilized human oocyte, or than embryonic stem cells derived from leftover IVF embryos,” Science Daily says. “These findings suggest that...
Sex Cells: The Evolution (or Design) of Genitalia
November 6, 2014
...of all proteins made by the body). In “Amaze balls: Testicles site of most diverse proteins,” Andy Coghlan noted one unexpected result: The proteins in our cells and tissues are...