Adult Stem Cells
Vatican stem cell conference: comment
Jared Yee | 18 November 2011
A two-day international conference on stem cell research was held at the Vatican this week.
Sunset for a stem cell star
Michael Cook | 22 October 2011
Despite continuing huffing and puffing over the merits of human embryonic stem cells, the central issue seems to be shifting from the patients’ right to health to the scientists’ right to free inquiry. An editorial in New Scientist (Oct 17), an ardent champion of embryo research, assumes that cures will come more rapidly from adult stem cells.
Presidential contender had experimental stem cell treatment
Jared Yee | 25 August 2011
Texas Governor Rick Perry opposes embryonic stem cell research. The Republican presidential candidate has, however, shown an open mind toward treatments developed using adult stem cells, which can be collected from a patient’s own body.
Japanese researchers grow first stem cell tooth
Jared Yee | 15 July 2011
Japanese scientists have grown an entire tooth from stem cells implanted into a mouse’s kidney.
Adult stem cells create artificial windpipe
Michael Cook | 09 July 2011
For the first time a working artificial windpipe using a patient’s own adult stem cells has been created. A 36-year-old Eritrean man had a rare tracheal cancer which was obstructing his breathing. Doctors at the Karolinska University Hospital, in Stockholm, created a spongy and flexible scaffold made from polymers and seeded it with stem cells.
Private labs store baby teeth for stem cells
Jared Yee | 09 March 2011
Private labs offer “biological insurance”
Reprogrammed stem cells can have mutations
Jared Yee | 09 March 2011
Adult stem cells may be in some doubt
Nasal stem cells may prevent childhood deafness
Jared Yee | 18 February 2011
Scientists “encouraged by initial findings”
Promising treatment for multiple sclerosis with adult stem cells
Jared Yee | 04 June 2010
More adult stem cell success
Adult stem cells used to give boy new windpipe
Jared Yee | 27 May 2010
Adult stem cell breakthrough
Vatican funds adult stem cell research at U Maryland
Jared Yee | 07 May 2010
Church puts its money where its mouth is
Champions of embryonic stem cells fight back in media
Michael Cook | 20 February 2010
Theology published in leading journal Stem Cell
Adult stem cells restore sight
Michael Cook | 22 January 2010
Treatment aims at total cure, not just symptom relief
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