Recent news that Geron has abruptly pulled out of the embryonic stem cell (ESC) business, after having just begun the only human clinical trials with ESC’s, has been met with deserved rejoicing by the pro-life community. While it certainly is a blow to the ESC movement, it doesn’t necessarily signal the impending implosion of the [...]
Archive for the ‘Stem Cell Therapy’ Category
Geron, Embryonic Stem Cells, and an Uncertain Future
Posted in Stem Cell Therapy, tagged Adult Stem Cells, Dr. Carlos Lima, Embryonic Stem Cells, Geron on December 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Updating the Stem Cell Wars (Part I)
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Stem Cell Therapy, tagged Adult Stem Cells, Dr. George Daley, Embryonic Stem Cells, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, iPS Cells, Reuters on April 11, 2011 | 7 Comments »
My article in today’s Headline Bistro. As soon as scientists begin discussing the differences between embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, and altered nuclear transfer, most non-scientists become overwhelmed by the technicalities and quickly lose their moorings in the ethical and funding debates. This is needless and easily cleared up with [...]
Adult Stem Cells: The Blind See Again
Posted in Stem Cell Therapy, Uncategorized on June 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Referencing his miracles in John 14, Jesus told his Apostles, “Greater works than these will you do.” And do it is today with adult stem cell therapy. What once required the laying on of hands in so many areas is now routine medical treatment. I suspect that this protocol will become very routine in the [...]
Stem Cell Logic
Posted in Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Therapy, tagged Adult Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells, Obama on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Suppose we woke to the following headline with our morning coffee: Obama Administration to Fund 13 New Experimental HIV Drugs., followed by this secondary header- Activist Groups Outraged at Funding ‘Useless’ Class of Drugs over Proven Entity. Indeed, suppose the story went on to describe how the President and the Democrats remained wedded to funding [...]
The Case for Embryo-Destructive Research
Posted in Abortion, Biomedical Ethics, Dignity, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Personhood, Right to Life, Stem Cell Therapy, tagged Abortion, Adult Stem Cells, Embryo-destructive Research, Embryonic Stem Cells, pro-choice, Pro-Life on January 3, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Why, in the face of hundreds of extant therapeutic applications from Adult Stem Cells (ASC), would researchers wish to pursue embryo-destructive research when Embryonic Stem Cells (ESC) haven’t made it out of animal trials because of their tumor-forming propensities? As a Molecular Biologist, I am asked this question frequently by pro-lifers. Though I am adamantly [...]
Blood Stem-Cell Transplant Regimen Reverses Sickle Cell Disease in Adults
Posted in Stem Cell Therapy on December 25, 2009 | Comments Off
Another milestone for Adult Stem Cell Therapy, from the National Institutes of Health Photo: Getty Images “A modified blood adult stem-cell transplant regimen has effectively reversed sickle cell disease in 9 of 10 adults who had been severely affected by the disease, according to results of a National Institutes of Health study in the Dec. [...]
