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Stem Cells Archives


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...

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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...

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Human Skin Cells Do What Embryonic Stem Cells Can't

This 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...

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October 24, 2007

Medved Kind Of States The Obvious (Guiliani more pro-life than Dems)...But Worth Reading

Michael 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...

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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...

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October 5, 2007

Hilllary Clinton wants federal tax dollars to pay for research on stem cells from cloned human embryos

From 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"...

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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...

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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.

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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....

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Embryonic Stem Cells Repair Human Heart? Not Hardly

Here 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...

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August 13, 2007

Lawsuit moves MI Gov. Granholm to remove embryonic stem cell petition from website

The 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...

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July 4, 2007

Redefining the Human Embryo

How 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...

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June 29, 2007

Stem Cell Treatment for Diabetes

A new clinical study reportedly demonstrates that effectiveness of a stem cell treatment for juvenile diabetes. No, embryonic stem cells were not used....

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June 20, 2007

Bush Veto is the Right Choice

President 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...

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June 19, 2007

Accuracy in Embryonic Stem Cell Research Reporting

Jay 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...

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June 17, 2007

Ellen Goodman's Latest Outright Falsehood

In 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...

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June 13, 2007

Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research

NJ 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...

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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...

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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...

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June 7, 2007

Stem Cell Riddle

Yesterday, 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...

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The Stem Cell Bill Battle

The 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...

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Congress recycles embryo destruction bill

What 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...

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April 11, 2007

Stem Cell Research Deception

The 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...

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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...

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March 26, 2007

Little Bo Sheep

From 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...

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March 17, 2007

A stem cell eye treatment success

Another 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...

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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...

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March 9, 2007

Obama and conception

Where 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? ...

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Stem Cell Research Review

I 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...

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March 2, 2007

Embryo terminology

Penny 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...

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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...

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February 15, 2007

George: Keep the main embryo the main embryo

Princeton 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...

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February 13, 2007

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Survey

Faith 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...

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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...

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January 12, 2007

Brownback Urges Ethical Stem Cell Research

U.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...

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Bush will Veto Embryonic Stem Cell Legislation

If 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...

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January 11, 2007

Bioethics Center Slams Embryonic Stem Cell Act

Chicago, 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...

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House Approves Unethical Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

Washington, 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...

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January 10, 2007

We Deserve Better Than Embryonic Stem Cell Research Fraud

By 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...

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Advancing Stem Cell Science Without Destroying Human Life

That'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...

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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...

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January 8, 2007

Ethical Stem Cell Research Gains Applause from National Pro-Life Group

Just 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...

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Oppose the bill funding research that kills human embryos

On 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.

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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.

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January 4, 2007

New Congress To Vote Quickly on Federal Funding of Embryo-Killing Research

WASHINGTON (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...

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December 22, 2006

Advances in Ethical Stem Cell Research

Advances 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...

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December 16, 2006

Take the Great Stem Cell Quiz

Think 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...

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Human Harvesting for Stem Cells Begins in Ukraine

The 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...

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November 27, 2006

ACT Backs Down

Despite 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...

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November 20, 2006

Biotech CEO threatens Critics

Two 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...

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November 16, 2006

Adult Stem Cells, Muscular Dystrophy: Old News, Biased Coverage

It 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...

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More stem cell breakthroughs without killing embryos

Scientists 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...

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November 2, 2006

A Diabetic on Michael J. Fox and Missouri Amendment 2

By 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,...

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October 31, 2006

Stem Cell Commercial

This 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...

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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...

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Jesse Jackson on embryonic stem cells

With 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....

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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...

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October 25, 2006

Reponse to MJ Fox misinformation ad

The 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,...

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October 5, 2006

Stem Cell Research - Beyond the Hype

Check on the Family Research Council's excellent video: click here. [HT: LTI Blog]...

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