Nature Backpedals Over Stem-Cell Hype
September 10, 2006
...abuse in the stem-cell gold rush. Nature was originally praised for coming up with an “ethical” way to harvest embryonic stem cells, but look how ethical it turned out to...
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Embryonic Stem Cells No Longer Needed?
August 25, 2006
...said, is a “welcome development.” Second, and more significant, Japanese scientists found that adult stem cells can be made pluripotent, like embryonic stem cells, by the addition of...
Journals Consistently Tout Embryonic Stem Cells, Criticize Bush
July 31, 2006
...than 30 years to treat blood disorders. Adult stem cells are less likely to cause tumours than embryonic stem cells, and less likely to be rejected by the immune system....
Stem Cells Protect Against Defective Copies
June 27, 2006
The Pasteur Institute (see Louis Pasteur) has found evidence supporting a controversial theory known as the “immortal DNA” theory. According to News-Medical.Net, researchers at the institute believe that stem cells...
Stem Cell Achievement a Possible Fraud
December 16, 2005
...cells became stronger. By the end of the month, news reporters were declaring his entire study fraudulent. 1Woo Suk Hwang et al., “Patient-Specific Embryonic Stem Cells Derived from Human SCNT...
Micro-RNAs are Cells Optimizers
December 12, 2005
...help cells achieve the optimum levels of proteins for the tissues that need them. Many of these microRNAs are “evolutionarily conserved” (i.e., unevolved) from animals as different as humans and...
Red Blood Cells Are Master Contortionists
October 28, 2005
Biophysicists have analyzed why red blood cells are able to squeeze through tight spaces on their journeys through our tissues, reports the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. Their membranes contain...
Stem Cell Breakthroughs: No More Ethical Concerns?
October 19, 2005
Several science news sites have been reporting two new techniques for creating embryonic stem cells that do not involve the creation of viable embryos (see, for instance, New Scientist, Science...
Looking for Ethical Alternatives to Embryonic Stem Cells
August 24, 2005
...method, which uses skin cells and “reprograms” them to act like embryonic stem cells. Religion Journal thinks the ethical debate over stem cells may be over. This story illustrates the...
Cells High-Fidelity Proofreading and Editing Explained
July 26, 2005
...on “Fidelity in Protein Synthesis” in Current Biology.1 This is a good article for cell biology enthusiasts to read, to learn more about the methods cells employ to translate DNA...
Junk Cells Maintain the Brain
July 16, 2005
The most abundant immune cells in your brain are not the neurons, but microglia – spindly cells that were thought to be static and immobile, the smallest of the glia...
Stem Cell Headlines
May 23, 2005
Research on embryonic stem cells is proceeding apace without an ethical anchor, and no clue where it will lead. News coverage of the debate accelerated with an announcement from South...
Soft Tissue from Dinosaurs Found: Intact Cells and Blood Vessels
March 24, 2005
...of Science.1 The bone contained remnants of blood vessels that were still soft and flexible when separated from the matrix, and even individual cells: “osteocytes with internal cellular...
Stem Cell Research Launches into the Ethical Unknown, Full Steam Ahead
February 8, 2005
...out in the fanfare over embryonic stem cells. EurekAlert reported that a new source of stem cells in umbilical cord blood shows promise for bone marrow transplants and tissue repair,...
Adult Stem Cells Continue to Work Miracle Cures
October 27, 2004
Chalk up two more amazing successes for adult stem cells (not derived from human embryos, like the controversial ES stem cells): 1. Blindness: The BBC News reported that stem cells...