November 2007

More Stem Cell Breakthroughs

Two pieces just hit my inbox. This one and this one. Both highlighting the progress the Japanese are making turning adult skin cells back to the embryonic like state. These are the headlines: Stem cell breakthrough: Now Japanese team go one better “A Japanese team that last week broke new ground in stem cell research [...]

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Before the Ink Was Even Dry

Our announcement of Nov. 20 celebrating the death of the human cloning agenda, had no more left the gate when all the cloning cheerleaders starting shouting, “hold on thar a minute”. It’s too early to tell. We mustn’t get too excited. We still need to pursue all avenues of research. We shouldn’t limit or restrict [...]

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The Germans Get It

Germany, has had some of the best policies addressing stem cell research. With the recent announcement of the break through, the Germans have said they will invest more funding in adult stem cell research. Still the German laws have been fiercely attacked with the usual rhetoric and are set to be reviewed in Parliament in [...]

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Elective Single Embryo Transfer

eSET – That’s the new term for the latest recommendation to only transfer ONE embryo at a time into a woman’s uterus. Why is eSET the lastest craze? First, because women were not designed to have ‘litter’ births. And second, one baby at a time is better for the baby. DUH! I am no fan [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

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National Review Online Stem Cell Symposium

Yesterday I was invited to provide written commentary on the stem cell breakthrough for National Review on line. Here’s what I wrote, and you can read the other commentaries provided by leaders such as Leon Kass, William Hurlbut, Carter Snead and many more prominent voices. My comments: Tuesday’s news on the somatic-cell reprogramming advances couldn’t [...]

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New Stem Cell Method Equalizes Stem Cell Debate

It is unfortunate that the great stem cell debate has been so heated and politicized, that in the wake of the best news in a long time, the divisions are still present. Today’s news has, Arlan Specter saying “I really don’t think anybody ought to take credit in light of the six-year delay we’ve had,” [...]

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Human Cloning Research Dies A Happy Death

HUGE NEWS!! Stem Cell Breakthrough Uses No Embryos “Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy. Laboratory teams on two continents report success in a pair of landmark papers released Tuesday. [...]

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Ian Wilmut – Cloner of Dolly – Abandons Cloning Research

No he hasn’t had an ethical conscience awakening. Just following the research of Prof Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University in Japan, Wilmut “believes a rival method pioneered in Japan has better potential for making human embryonic cells which can be used to grow a patient’s own cells and tissues for a vast range of treatments, [...]

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New laws to create cloned babies

So called therapeutic cloning will inevitably lead to reproductive cloning. A new debate is beginning, which if allowed, would permit the use of DNA from three people to make a child. “British couples could soon be able to have babies created using DNA from two women and a man as part of a revolutionary human [...]

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