Embryonic Stem Cells

WATCH: Is Stem Cell Treatment As Advanced As You Think?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.21.2012

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In the future, stem cells may hold the key to treating some of mankind's most challenging diseases. Unfortunately, the future is not now. And stem cell scammers know this all too well.

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Gingrich Brings Grotesque Charges Against Science

Don C. Reed | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Embryonic Stem Cells, Stem Cell Research, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Politics News

Both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney supported embryonic stem cell research in the past. Both men, attempting to gain political advancement, have flip-flopped on the issue. But there is an important difference between the two men.

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Undo Damage to the Komen Reputation: Support Stem Cell Research

Don C. Reed | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Science, Susan G. Komen, Religious Opposition, Breast Cancer, Embryonic Stem Cells, Politics News

Komen is hopefully returning to its former productive relationship with Planned Parenthood. But it must also remove any ideological prejudice against stem cell research, and get back in touch with mainstream American science.

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Oklahoma State Senator Introduces Eyebrow-Raising Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 01.25.2012

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A Republican state senator in Oklahoma has introduced a bill banning aborted human fetuses in food, despite the fact that there are no known foods or ...

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WATCH: Cute "Chimeric" Monkeys Carry Strange DNA

Posted 01.07.2012

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Cute and cuddly, little Hex, Roku, and Chimero look just like any other rhesus monkeys. But they carry distinctive DNA - a mashup of genes from severa...

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A Tribute to Unemployed Stem Cell Scientists

Don C. Reed | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Science, California, Stem Cell Research, Geron, Paralysis, Stem Cell Human Trial, Embryonic Stem Cells, Stem Cell Research Funding, Technology News

It would be different if their experiment had failed. But they had done everything right, played by the rules all the way: and in so far as they had been allowed to go, they had triumphed.

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Santorum Blasts Gingrich: 'I'm The One You Want To Take Home To Mom'

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 11.29.2011

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said rival Newt Gingrich is "inconsistent" when it comes to issues social conservatives care about. ...

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Geron Halts First Government-Approved Test Using Embryonic Stem Cells

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 01.15.2012

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TRENTON, N.J. — The company doing the first government-approved test of embryonic stem cell therapy is discontinuing further stem cell work, a m...

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Judge OKs Funding For Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 09.26.2011

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WASHINGTON — A lawsuit that had threatened to end the Obama administration's funding of embryonic stem cell research was thrown out Wednesday, a...

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A Cure for Cancer -- Denied by Politics

Don C. Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Leukemia, Cancer, Conservatives, Embryonic Stem Cells, Republicans, Politics News

I do not believe even the most hardened conservative goes to bed at night being glad he or she stopped chronic disease from being cured. But if they surrender to an anti-science ideology, it will have exactly the same effect.

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Court Lifts Ban On Embryonic Stem Cell Research--For Now

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.17.2011

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WASHINGTON — The government said Friday it's back in the business of funding embryonic stem cell research – at least for now – after...

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NIH OKs First Stem Cell Lines On Tax-Paid Research

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens m...

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Stem Cell Snorting Holds Promise For Treating Brain Disorders

The Blotter | Posted 11.17.2011

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New details from a University of Minnesota researcher's initial tests show the stem cells actually make it to the brain when snorted rather than impla...

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Only the Freshest Stem Cells Will Do

Beth Kohl | Posted 05.25.2011

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Frozen embryos, like waffles or fish or my old Dell, are only good for so long. You can't just keep them in the freezer forever with the assumption that, once you need them, you can scrape them off and use them.

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Right Wing Watch: Dick Armey Calls for Higher Middle Class Taxes; Palin Eloquent About Her Choice to Keep Pregnancy

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Republicans believe they can play photos of Obama shaking hands with Hugo Chavez and diminish the president's support. Some of the boomers may still fall for it; the millennials do not.

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Should We Really Fear Reproductive Human Cloning?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

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The president has not explained precisely why he opposes reproductive cloning. Is his opposition solely based upon the health risks of cloning techniques, or on moral grounds?

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Calling Out Stem Cell Lies

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Knocking down the arbitrary wall constructed by Bush will most likely subject far more labs who are obliged to reap the benefits of federal stem cell funding to a federal ethics oversight regime.

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The Great Potential of Stem Cells

Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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I suspect that 60 years from now, doctors will view our practices in a similar manner to how we viewed the pre-antibiotic age.

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Hope, Science and Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research in 2009

Ryan Mehl | Posted 05.25.2011

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The days of cautiously taking care of ourselves will wane as we move medicine, politics and society forward. By embracing stem-cell research, we will see the many troubles of aging and disease disappear.

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Obama's Stem Cell Policy Should Be Enacted Through Legislation, Not by Executive Order

Ralph Dittman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama guaranteed he would ensure that all research on stem cells is conducted "ethically and with rigorous oversight." Now, how does he implement this change in stem cell policy?

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Biotech Firm Says First Human Stem Cell Tests Could Begin This Summer

CNN | Aaron Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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The first experiments using human embryonic stem cells in human subjects could begin within a few months, the chief executive of biotech Geron said Mo...

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Stem Cell Breakthrough Uses No Embryos

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday ...

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