Stem Cell Research

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Video, Stem Cell, Pluripotent Cells, Talk Nerdy to Me, Cara Santa Maria, Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Scams, Medicine, Embryonic Stem Cells, Stem Cell Treatment, Stem Cell Tourism, Biomedical Research, Induced Pluripotent Cells, Science News

2012-05-21-Screenshot20120521at3.05.45PM.jpgIn 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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Snyder Sides With U-M In Stem Cell Debate

Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Michigan Stem Cell Research, Michigan Education, Rick Snyder, Video, Governor Snyder, Stem Cells, University of Michigan, Michigan Stem Cell Funding, Governor Rick Snyder, Stem Cell Research, University of Michigan Stem Cell Research, Detroit News

The University of Michigan's battle with Republican lawmakers over stem cell research took a turn Friday when Republican Gov. Rick Snyder sided with t...

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Super PACs, Virginia, and the Battle for the U.S. Senate

Don C. Reed | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Super Pac, U.S. Senate, Virginia, Republicans, Stem Cell Research, Democrats, Personhood, Politics News
Don C. Reed

We already have a Republican-controlled Supreme Court, and a radically conservative House of Representatives. The Senate is close to turning red, and a flood of super PAC cash could push it over the edge.

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New Research Toward Curing and Living Better With Type 1 Diabetes

Riva Greenberg | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Jdrf, Cure for Diabetes, Reverse Diabetes, Diabetes Research, Type 1 Diabetes, Diabetes, Stem Cell Research, Continuous Glucose Monitor, Artificial Pancreas, Insulin Pump, Diabetes Management, Diabetes-Advocacy, Healthy Living News
Riva Greenberg

If you were diagnosed more than a decade ago, like me, you heard that there would be a cure in five to 10 years. We're still searching, but we've probably made more progress in the last 10 years than the last 40.

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Disenfranchise a Gender? Virginians Fight Back Against Anti-Woman "Personhood" Legislation

Don C. Reed | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Bill Bolling, Abortion, Bob Mcdonnell, Bob Marshall, Virginia, Stem Cell Research, Personhood, DC News
Don C. Reed

Women are increasingly realizing there may be no place for them in the formerly Grand Old Party, except as second class citizens, their rights defined...

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We Must Regulate Reproductive Technology

S. Lochlann Jain | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Fertility, Stem Cell Research, Ivf Treatments, In Vitro Fertilization, Ivf, Stem Cell Cloning, Cloning, Stem Cells, Politics News
S. Lochlann Jain

The fetuses created by IVF will ideally become healthy people. But the IVF industry needs federal oversight to ensure that the children produced have the maximum chance of growing up to be healthy adults.

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Rick Santorum Is Pro-Science: That's the Good News

Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, Science, Climate Change, Stem Cell Research, Rick Santorum Evolution, Santorum Climate Science, Santorum Climate Change, Santorum Science, Politics News
Jonathan D. Moreno

At one time a candidate for office would have been sorely tempted to kiss Albert Einstein's balding pate along with that of an infant. So why does Rick Santorum feel compelled to assure us that he is pro-science? And why now?

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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
Don C. Reed

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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Humanizing Stem Cell Politics

Saleem H. Ali | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Type 1 Diabetes, Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Funding, Stem-Cell-Technology, Obama Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Research Politics, Pre-Diabetes-Insulin-Resistance, Politics News
Saleem H. Ali

Global efforts to fight diseases and reduce human suffering should not be put on the alter of "slippery slope" politics or absolutist ethics.

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Obama Proved Right On Stem Cells: Republican Candidates Would Have Criminalized Breakthrough

Don C. Reed | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Blindness, Stem Cell Trials, Politics News
Don C. Reed

Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. has not only had a safety success in the world's first embryonic stem cell attempt to treat blindness, but has actually achieved a degree of improvement.

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Itamar Raz: A Few Years Away From Preventing Type 1 Diabetes

Riva Greenberg | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Leadership, Blood Sugar, Doctors, Stem Cell Research, Diabetes, Diabetes Research, Health Care, Diabetes Prevention, Healthy Living News
Riva Greenberg

Forty years ago I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I was told -- as we all were -- that the cure was five to 10 years away. There still is no cure, but I just interviewed the man who may be a breath away from preventing type 1 diabetes.

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LOOK: Insanely Cute Monkeys Have More Than Two Parents

Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Chimerism, Chimeric Monkeys, Embryos, Roku, Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Chimero, Chimeric Monkey Pictures, Stem Cell Research, Monkey Pictures, Cute Animals, Chimeric Monkey Photos, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Hex, Science News

Because we know you'll ask: no, you can't have one. Hex, Roku and Chimero, the insanely cute rhesus monkeys pictured here, are the world's first ch...

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Could The Aging Process Be Reversed?

www.foxnews.com | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Mice, Aging Process, Aging, Stem Cells, New Research, Stem-Cell-Injections, University of Pittsburgh, Stem Cell Research, Stem-Cell-Shot, Fifty News

The secret to eternal youth may come in the form of stem cell injections, U.S. scientists claimed. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh ma...

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WATCH: Cute "Chimeric" Monkeys Carry Strange DNA

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Chimeric Monkeys, Embryos, Video, Primates, Rhesus Monkeys, Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Stem Cell Research, Oregon National Primate Research Centre, Embryonic Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Science News

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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Three Men Allegedly Peddling Stem Cell 'Miracle Cure' Arrested

Reuters | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Francisco Morales, San Antonio, Fbi, Brownsville, Del Rio, Fda, Alberto Ramon, Lawrence Stowe, Texas, Video, Medical University of South Carolina, Reuters, Vincent Dammai, Stem Cell Research, Food and Drug Administration, Crime News

By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO , Jan 2 (Reuters) - Three men were arrested and a fourth is being sought by the FBI in what investigators sa...

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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
Don C. Reed

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

Read More: Iowa, Abortion, LGBT Issues, Rick Santorum Abortion, Gop 2012, Rick Santorum, Elections 2012, Immigration, Newt Gingrich Abortion, Undocumented Immigration, Video, Newt Gingrich 2012, 2012 Election, Christian Conservatives, Stem Cells, Newt Gingrich Immigration, Rick Santorum 2012, Stem Cell Research, Newt Gingrich, Embryonic Stem Cells, Politics News

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

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VICTORY! Mississippi Trashes Personhood Nonsense

Don C. Reed | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Mississippi, Stem Cell Research, Freedom, Personhood, Abortion, Mississippi Personhood, Mississippi Personhood Amendment, Measure 26, Politics News
Don C. Reed

In what has been described as "the most conservative state in the union", Mississippi voters last night defeated the anti-stem cell, anti-freedom, anti-woman nonsense known as the Personhood Amendment.

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Criminalize Abortion, Stem Cell Research, and the Birth Control Pill?

Don C. Reed | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Abortion, Ivf, Haley Barbour, Republican, Politics News
Don C. Reed

For a glimpse into a Republican Religious Right wishlist, check out Amendment 26, in Mississippi.

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Do We Have a Functional Cure for HIV Yet?

Julie Chen, M.D. | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Stem Cell Research, HIV/AIDS and Stem Cell Research, Healthy Living Body, HIV/AIDS and Research, HIV/AIDS Cure, HIV Cure, Healthy Living News
Julie Chen, M.D.

With recent advances and successes, we are all optimistic about what the future may hold for us all in this fight against the AIDS epidemic, but we are also far from the final successful chapter of our battle with HIV.

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Oh, Newt. Newt, Newt, Newt. Seriously?

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Science Debate, Newt Gingrich 2012, Rush Holt, Antiscience, Anti-Science, Science Debate 2012, Stem Cell Research, Newt Gingrich, Science Debate 2008, Republicans, Politics News
Shawn Lawrence Otto

A man who worked to double research funding at the NIH now equates microscopic, invisible, frozen specks of cells with "children." Even cultural conservatives should see that as a manipulative bit of oratorical prestidigitation.

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Abortion, Lou Gehrig, and Research for Cure

Don C. Reed | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Abortion, Motor Neuron Disease, Science, Als, Stem Cell, Medical Research, Lou Gehrig, Stem Cell Research, AB 214 Wisconsin Bill, Republicans Stem Cell Research, AB 214, AB 214 Bill, Politics News
Don C. Reed

Today, a company is targeting Lou Gehrig's disease. Their approach is undergoing clinical trials in America, right now. But in Wisconsin, the home of stem cell research? If Republican lawmakers get their way, the research which might end Lou Gehrig's disease could be criminalized.

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Huge Victory for Obama, Stem Cell Research, and America

Don C. Reed | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: National Debt, Stem Cell Research, Chronic Disease, President Obama, Stem Cell Research Ruling, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Los Angeles News
Don C. Reed

Sherley vs. Sebelius, a lawsuit threatening stem cell research, was thrown out today. With Judge Lamberth's ruling, state dollars can once again be matched by federal contributions.

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Judge OKs Funding For Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Obama Administration, Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Stem Cell Research, Embryonic Stem Cells, Obama Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Research Funding, Obama Science, Politics News

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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WATCH: Is It Possible to Cure Aging?

Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Aging, Video, Longevity, Health, Gene Therapy, Aubrey De Gray, Science, Stem Cell Research, Medicine, Healthy Living News

The first person to reach age 150 may have already been born, according to one British scientist. And the first person to live to be 1,000 years o...

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