Etiqueta: stem cells
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Obama Signs Law Restricting Federal Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Signing the Omnibus spending bill, with the Dickey-Wicker Amendment at the heart of the embryonic stem cell controversy, President Obama today renewed the law that still makes the use of federal funds for the destruction of a human embryo illegal.
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How to Mend a Broken Heart
Adult stem cell therapy continues to yield significant improvement in patients with a variety of heart problems.
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Obama Rescinds Bush-Era Executive Order Pushing for More Ethical Stem Cell Research
Obama also formally rescinded President Bush’s Executive Order that advocated research into non-embryonic sources of stem cells, such as adult stem cells and iPS cells.
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Obama Decrees Changes in Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Though Not What One Might Expect
Amid great publicity, fanfare, and confusion, President Barack Obama reverses some, but not all, of the laws that previously governed stem cell research.
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Former Director of N.I.H. Explains Why Embronic Stem Cells are Obsolete
Dr. Bernardine Healy has written an article in U.S. News and World Report entitled Why Embryonic Stem Cells Are Obsolete.
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Japanese Company Conducts Clinical Trials with Adult Stem Cells
JCR Pharmaceuticals has begun clinical trials for the treatment of graft-versus-host disease with mesenchymal stem cells derived from bone marrow.
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More Canine Cures Achieved With Adult Stem Cells
The California company Vet-Stem continues its success in treating man’s best friend with adult stem cells.
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Doctors in Spain Use Adult Stem Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Crohn’s Disease
Following the success obtained in other countries with the same procedure, doctors in Spain are using adult stem cells to treat patients with Crohn’s disease.
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Parkinson’s Disease Successfully Treated with Adult Stem Cells
Scientists at the Los Angeles Neurosurgical Institute have reported the first successful reversal of Parkinson’s disease with an adult neural stem cell transplantation.
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Fetal Stem Cell Therapy Could Prove Fatal
A young boy who was treated with fetal stem cell therapy developed a life-threatening tumor which was directly traced to the fetal stem cells that he received.