Archive for the 'Stem Cell' Category
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Assisted reproductive technology has resulted in the creation and cryopreservation of extra embryos at fertility centers across the country. It was estimated in 2002 that 396,526 embryos were in storage at U.S. fertility clinics, according to previously published research.
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
On the auspicious eve on 2008 Beijing Olympics Professor John Rasko, talks about the methods by which the performance of the athletes could be increased.
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
A Spanish baby’s cord blood stem cell saved the life of a leukaemia patient in Scotland. The little boy Jordan was suffering from the deadly disease and stem cell was his last ray of hope. The doctors have found the required stem cell after going through the international stem cell register. Only then the [...]
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
An American child was denied flight to China from the Vancouver International Airport. She headed to China for stem cell treatment for her deadly disease. She was suffering from a rare disease called Batten’s disease. And now, she is waiting for death helplessly. At first the Air China and then the Air Canada refused [...]
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The use of cosmentic solution may change very soon. The stem cell therapy can soon make it possible. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, said that the stem cell treatment can take the place of cosmetic surgery and the technique will be free from any side effect or problems that the [...]
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Rusty was a paraplegic for more than nine years. He can now walk and go to the bathroom on his own. This has become possible due to the stem cell therapy associated with physical therapy, which Rusty took for few months.
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. announced the successful treatment of two similar spinal cord injury patients using two different procedures that involved umbilical cord stem cells.
One method involved surgical transplantation of stem cells directly into the spinal cord, while the other patient received the stem cells without surgery. The announcement was made following a [...]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
The Catholic Church declared that it will excommunicate scientists who conduct embryonic stem cell research because it involves the destruction of human life and thus expressed its opposition to the said research.
Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Vatican department dealing with family affairs told Catholic publication Famiglia Cristiana that “destroying human embryos is equivalent [...]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
The Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative which has been voted unanimously by the St. Louis Rabbinical Association, would “ensure Missouri patients have access to any therapies and cures, and allow Missouri researchers to conduct any research, permitted under federal law; ban human cloning or attempted cloning; require expert medical and public oversight and [...]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
In a dramatic display of stem cells’ potential for healing, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports that they’ve engineered new, completed, fully-working motor neuron circuits — neurons stretching from spinal cord to target muscles — in paralyzed adult animals.
The research, in which mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells were injected into rats whose virus-damaged spinal [...]
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