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December 11, 2007 "There Must Be Another Way:" Breakthrough Stem Cell Scientist Tells His Story.Inspiration can appear in unexpected places. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka found it while looking through a microscope at a friend's fertility clinic. Yamanaka was an assistant professor of pharmacology doing research involving embryonic stem cells when he made the social call...Posted by denny | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack November 20, 2007 Translation of "induced Pluripotent (Adult) Stem Cells"Scientists who report their findings are expected to discuss the problems as well as the outcome of their research. The "Discussion" is the best place to figure out what a report means (And then you go back and check to...Posted by lifeethics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack Human Skin Cells Do What Embryonic Stem Cells Can'tThis work represents...the biological equivalent of the Wright Brothers' first airplane...It's a bit like learning how to turn lead into gold.Once again proving that Connecticut, New York, California and New Jersey have just soaked their residents with multibillions of tax-dollar-funded...Posted by annie | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack October 24, 2007 Medved Kind Of States The Obvious (Guiliani more pro-life than Dems)...But Worth ReadingMichael Medved on Guiliani being more pro-life than Democrat Presidential candidates:Personally, I disagree with Giuliani on abortion. I am unhesitatingly pro-life, and I yearn for the Supreme Court to overturn the monstrous abomination of Roe v. Wade. Even so, whatever...Posted by annie | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 8, 2007 Nobel Prize for Adult Stem Cell Research?A team of stem cell researchers was recently awarded the 2007 Nobel prize for medicine. Stem cell researchers Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies won the 2007 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for their work on gene changes...Posted by ConservativeBelle | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 5, 2007 Hilllary Clinton wants federal tax dollars to pay for research on stem cells from cloned human embryosFrom the New York Times:"We have to be steered by values and morals," Mrs. Clinton said yesterday, and she pointed to guidelines drawn up by the National Institutes of Health during her husband's administration as a kind of "ethical framework"...Posted by JivinJ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack September 11, 2007 StemLifeLine pushing parents to use extra embryos to "protect the future"Many have been lulled into thinking that because of the federal ban on funding for fetal stem cell research, it is banned. That's how our media portray it. However, it is a ban on federal funding only - not on...Posted by barbara | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack September 7, 2007 September 7th - Call for Life Today!Every month on the first Friday we call and/or email our representatives to ask them to oppose abortion and human killing research. If we don't let our representatives know that they should do the right thing, who will? It's not just our vote that counts, it's our voice and our email. Posted by peter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack August 27, 2007 "Big News" is really No News in the embryonic stem cell industry...Why It Isn't Just The "Lady Justice Statue" That's Blindfolded The liberal media is just faint with breathless overexcitement today, oh, my: Human embryonic stem cells heal the hearts of rats. Pardon my Noo Yawk bluntness, but-- big freakin' whoop....Posted by annie | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack Embryonic Stem Cells Repair Human Heart? Not HardlyHere is a classic case of how a headline can misinform, even mislead the reader who doesn't carefully read the story itself. The headline emblazons this amazing breakthrough, "Embryonic Stem Cells Repair Human Heart," but the story itself proves the...Posted by denny | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack August 13, 2007 Lawsuit moves MI Gov. Granholm to remove embryonic stem cell petition from websiteThe Associated Press reported August 9 that the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor is suing MI Democrat Gov. Jennifer Granholm for discrimination: Granholm, who wants to lift Michigan's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, has a link on...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack July 4, 2007 Redefining the Human EmbryoHow convenient it would be for some if reality reshaped itself to match politically motivated redefinitions. Wesley Smith points us to Princeton biologist Lee Silver who admits that the term "pre-embryo" is political in his book Remaking Eden:I'll let you...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack June 29, 2007 Stem Cell Treatment for DiabetesA new clinical study reportedly demonstrates that effectiveness of a stem cell treatment for juvenile diabetes. No, embryonic stem cells were not used....Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack June 20, 2007 Bush Veto is the Right ChoicePresident George Bush today will strike down legislation that would have provided federal funding for research that destroys human embryos:Pushing back against the Democratic-led Congress, Bush plans to veto a bill Wednesday that would have eased restraints on federally funded...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack June 19, 2007 Accuracy in Embryonic Stem Cell Research ReportingJay from LTI Blog did a stinging review this opinion piece in the Michigan Daily that makes outrageous yet typical arguments in favor of embryonic stem research. For example: Article: Despite its medical benefits, embryonic stem cell research remains controversial...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack June 17, 2007 Ellen Goodman's Latest Outright FalsehoodIn her column this weekend, Goodman damns with faint praise the "genuine, bona fide scientific breakthrough" (her words, not mine) that "turned ordinary skin cells into the equivalent of embryonic stem cells...rais[ing] the possibility [of] mak[ing] stem cells without destroying...Posted by annie | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack June 13, 2007 Funding Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchNJ plans a referendum to milk voters of $450 million for embryonic stem cell research: Assemblyman Neil Cohen told The Associated Press that the plan, if approved, would make New Jersey a global leader in stem cell research, hailed by...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack June 11, 2007 Stem Cell Conspiracy?Some believe that there is a plot afoot to discredited embryonic stem cell research by publishing the progress of adult stem cell researchers. The very day congress was to vote on federal funding for ESC, a report was published in...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack June 9, 2007 Pelosi's Biblical Power to Cure"Science is a gift of God to all of us and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, arguing for the bill's passage. "And that...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack June 7, 2007 Stem Cell RiddleYesterday, a major stem cell break-through was reported after researchers announced that they could manipulate mouse skin cells into embryonic-like stem cells. This is being celebrated because scientists can now (potentially) develop embryonic stem cells without the ethical concerns of...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack The Stem Cell Bill BattleThe Democratic controlled congress is quite active in its quest to promote embryonic stem cell research despite its ethical problems and extraordinarily low probability of success (i.e., it's a fantasy). As noted by Jill, today the U.S. House of Representatives...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack Congress recycles embryo destruction billWhat with wars, rumors of wars, the Social Security crisis, and border security, to name just a few issues our elected officials should be pondering, how instead are they spending their time? By recycling a bill President Bush has already...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack April 11, 2007 Stem Cell Research DeceptionThe Family Research Council today condemned deception by Senators Specter and Harkin on stem cell research. Washington D.C. - Yesterday, the United States Senate began debate on S. 5, "Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005" (S. 5) a...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack Ironic, don't you think?On the day U.S. Senator Tom Harkin proclaims adult stem cells "haven't provided the answer for juvenile diabetes" (third to last paragraph) and "the presentations about adult stem cells having as much or more potential than embryonic stem cells, in...Posted by JivinJ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack March 26, 2007 Little Bo SheepFrom CCTV.com, today: BEIJING - Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs, according to news report Monday. The sheep have 15 percent human cells and 85 percent animal...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack March 17, 2007 A stem cell eye treatment successAnother successful application of adult stem cell research:British experts are pioneering a treatment using stem cell therapy to improve the sight of people born with a rare genetic eye disorder. Stem cells taken from dead donors, living relatives or even...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack March 12, 2007 Example of MSM stem cell bias; Catholics duped?New Jersey's Star-Ledger broadcast this headline yesterday: "Stem cell research gains ground in Catholic church." Of course, the ignorant masses, unclear that some stem cell research is morally acceptable and some not but aware of an ongoing ethical debate on...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack March 9, 2007 Obama and conceptionWhere was Barack Obama when we needed him? While legislatures around the country have been debating when human life begins and the morality of experimenting on human embryos, who knew liberal luminary Obama would provide the answer Sunday in Selma? ...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack Stem Cell Research ReviewI thought it was time for an updated review on stem cell therapy at LifeEthics.org. For one thing , there are a couple of new reports about lung stem cells, one that is good news, and one example of the...Posted by lifeethics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack March 2, 2007 Embryo terminologyPenny Pullen, author of the weekly Life Advocacy Briefing, teaches pro-life terminology. From her I learned to say: "pro-abortion," not "pro-choice" "aborting "mother" (and "father"), not aborting "woman" (or "man") "commit abortion," not "perform abortion" "abortionist," not "doctor" As part...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack February 28, 2007 The Inability to See - Would Jesus Support Embryonic Stem Cell Research?By Dave Andrusko, National Right to Life After you've spent nearly thirty years fighting the good fight, you might think you'd pretty much roll with the punches. But you'd be wrong. If they want to tell me that abortion is...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack February 15, 2007 George: Keep the main embryo the main embryoPrinceton University professor Robert George gave great talking points about embryonic stem cell experimentation during a lecture last week at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, according to Towers Online, Feb. 15, the most important being: "The fact that... embryonic stem cells...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack February 13, 2007 Embryonic Stem Cell Research SurveyFaith and Action has put up a survey asking us to voice our opinion on embryonic stem cell research. From the Faith and Action web site: At this moment, members of Congress are working to pass legislation that will...Posted by peter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 14, 2007 Why note age of embryonic stem cells?Two of many good points Sarah Flashing, at the blog Flashpoint, made in her critique of a C-Span-covered interview of Gail Pressburg, co-author of The Promise & Politics of Stem Cell Research, were these: "Five-day old cells." Gail, are you...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 12, 2007 Brownback Urges Ethical Stem Cell ResearchU.S. Senator Sam Brownback commented on yesterday's House vote to force taxpayers to fund research that destroys human embryos. "The House of Representatives fell well short of the votes they would need to override a presidential veto of legislation to...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack Bush will Veto Embryonic Stem Cell LegislationIf Congress approves a measure that would force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research, President Bush has promised he will issue a second veto of the legislation. Last year Congress passed the bill and failed to come up with...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 11, 2007 Bioethics Center Slams Embryonic Stem Cell ActChicago, Illinois - January 11, 2007 In response to passage of H.R 3, The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007, Director of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity (CBHD) C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D., states “Partisan politics has trumped...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack House Approves Unethical Embryonic Stem Cell Research BillWashington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives approved federal funding for research that requires the destruction of human life. Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council, issued the following statement:"Rather than defend human dignity, the Democrat led House...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 10, 2007 We Deserve Better Than Embryonic Stem Cell Research FraudBy Judie Brown Very early in my life I learned a valuable lesson: when you manipulate the truth, you not only distort the subject you are discussing but you bring shame upon yourself as well. As I have read the...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack Advancing Stem Cell Science Without Destroying Human LifeThat's the name of a new report out from the President's Domestic Policy Council. The report is 67 pages (the majority of which is an appendix which contains the abstracts of various studies) and discusses breakthroughs in adult stem cell...Posted by JivinJ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 9, 2007 Destroying Life is Pro-Life?As the embryonic stem cell debate over HR3 wages, political spin has approached absurd levels. Kathryn Jean Lopez via LTI Blog notes,Rep. Diane DeGette (D., Colorado) said that her federal-funding-for-embryonic-stem-cell-research bill has the support of many of the freshman "self-described...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 8, 2007 Ethical Stem Cell Research Gains Applause from National Pro-Life GroupJust days before the House of Representatives considers mandating federal funding of stem cell research that destroys human embryos, researchers at Wake Forest University announced the discovery of stem cells in amniotic fluid. According to researchers, these stem cells share...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack Oppose the bill funding research that kills human embryosOn January 11, the House will consider a bill to fund research that requires the killing of human embryos. Sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), H.R. 3 will federally fund research on human embryos that supposedly are "leftover" from in vitro fertilization. Instead of promoting the adoption of these human embryos, this bill would require their death. Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 7, 2007 Can "womb fluid" end the embryonic stem cell debate?Timesonline.co.uk reports that American scientists have been experimenting with amniotic fluid as a possible replacement for embryonic stem cells. Posted by peter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 4, 2007 New Congress To Vote Quickly on Federal Funding of Embryo-Killing ResearchWASHINGTON (January 4, 2007) -- The leaders of the new Democratic majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have announced that one of their first priorities will be passage of legislation to mandate federal funding of the...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack December 22, 2006 Advances in Ethical Stem Cell ResearchAdvances in adult and cord stem cell based therapy continue to make the news:Johns Hopkins scientists have successfully grown large numbers of stem cells taken from adult pigs' healthy heart tissue and used the cells to repair some of the...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack December 16, 2006 Take the Great Stem Cell QuizThink you can pass? Here are some of the questions (True or False): Bush’s veto banned stem cell research in the United States. Embryonic stem cell research is banned in the United States. Human embryonic stem cell research is...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack Human Harvesting for Stem Cells Begins in UkraineThe BBC is reporting that healthy new-born babie appear to have been killed in order to harvest stem cells for the flourish stem cell trade that has begun in the country. Dr. Hwang Woo-Sook was found last year to have...Posted by john | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack November 27, 2006 ACT Backs DownDespite their bluster last week, Advanced Cell Technology has modified its claims in its now notorious Nature paper. From LifeNews Los Angeles, CA (LifeNews.com) -- A leading biotech firm that came under fire for claiming to have created a new...Posted by papijoe | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack November 20, 2006 Biotech CEO threatens CriticsTwo important critics of embryonic stem cell research have been threatened by a biotech firm recently lambasted in the Senate and the press for an embryonic bait and switch. From LifeNews Los Angeles, CA (LifeNews.com) -- A leading biotech firm...Posted by papijoe | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack November 16, 2006 Adult Stem Cells, Muscular Dystrophy: Old News, Biased CoverageIt seems that about all I write on anymore is reporting bias. However, when the coverage of a report on a successful retroviral gene therapy, the identification of a specific population of stem cells, and the apparent cures in animal...Posted by lifeethics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack More stem cell breakthroughs without killing embryosScientists from Switzerland have grown heart valves from stem cells found in amniotic fluid. The goal is to grow the valves in the lab during a pregnancy and then implant them into a baby with heart defects after it is...Posted by JivinJ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack November 2, 2006 A Diabetic on Michael J. Fox and Missouri Amendment 2By Anita Crane November 2, 2006 Michael J. Fox breaks my heart. I'm sad to see him suffer with Parkinson's disease—but sadder to realize that someone has given him false hope about human embryonic stem cell research. In his Maryland,...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 31, 2006 Stem Cell CommercialThis new stem cell television commercial presents the ethical issues concerning human embryonic stem cell research in a very personal way. Mary, a Muscular Dystrophy patient, tells in her own words that she wants to be cured, but not if...Posted by politicaleye | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 30, 2006 Michael J. Fox hasn't read Missouri's Amendment Two?From Michael J. Fox's interview yesterday with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week:Stephanopoulos: In the ad now running in Missouri, Jim Caviezel speaks in Aramaic. It means, "You betray me with a kiss." And his position, his point, is...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack Jesse Jackson on embryonic stem cellsWith all these famous people entering into the embryonic stem cell debate, I thought it only fitting that Jesse Jackson insert himself into the melee. Here is a quote from an essay he wrote several years ago:Anything growing is living....Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 27, 2006 FRC Webcast "Missouri: The 'Clone-Me' State? The Politics Of Cloning And Stem Cells,"The Family Research Council is doing a webcast about the Missouri embryonic stem cell debate at 11:00 am . Click here to go to the website for more information...Posted by peter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 25, 2006 Reponse to MJ Fox misinformation adThe following ad is planned to play tonight during the World Series, although there are last minute details still being worked out. It features Jim Caviezel of "The Passion of Christ;" Cardinals pitcher Jeff Suppan, Arizona Cardinals QB Kurt Warner,...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 5, 2006 Stem Cell Research - Beyond the HypeCheck on the Family Research Council's excellent video: click here. 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