April 2009

Last Chance to Bank on Life

No really – my blogging has been weak of late due to impending conference and annual Paul Ramsey dinner (which is just about sold-out). But if you are thinking about coming to the Banking On Life conference, just a little incentive . . . Congresswoman Jackie Speier will be speaking as she’s getting ready to [...]

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A Gathering of the World’s Leading Researchers

With the Obama administration recently announcing its policy change on the issue of stem cell research and regenerative medicine, the questions surrounding this issue are many. Promising to deliver some answers, perhaps the most comprehensive one-day conference with cutting edge leaders from around the world will take place in the City by the Bay on May 2, 2009.

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Does Research Really Need Human Embryos and Cloning? – The Daily Beast

Neurobiologist Maureen L. Condic investigates 11 common arguments in favor of embryonic stem-cell research, and explains why science may not need the controversial technique, after all. Posted using ShareThis

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A Second Chance for Chloe

When Chloe Levine was just 9 months old her parents noticed that she didn’t use her right hand to hold her bottle. Then they noticed she wasn’t crawling and instead chose to bounce herself around using her weaker right leg only as a prop. At 12 months of age, a cat scan revealed her left [...]

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A Second Chance for Chloe

When Chloe Levine was just 9 months old her parents noticed that she didn’t use her right hand to hold her bottle. Then they noticed she wasn’t crawling and instead chose to bounce herself around using her weaker right leg only as a prop. At 12 months of age, a cat scan revealed her left side of her brain had not developed properly and she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

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Lines That Divide: The Great Stem Cell Debate

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What Do Cord Blood Stem Cells Have in Store for Pediatric Brain Trauma?

Dr. James E. Baumgartner is Associate Pediatric Neurosurgeon at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, majoring in microbiology as an undergraduate. He received an exchange scholarship to Cambridge University in England and studied pharmacology and genetics. Upon completion of his Master’s Degree, he returned to the University of Michigan, graduating from medical school in 1985. Dr. Baumgartner completed his internship in surgery, residency in neurosurgery and a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at the University of California in San Francisco.

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Science’s Stem-pede Part 2 : Science, Ethics & Our Hideous Strength

As you read these words, a research scientist – somewhere in his temperature-controlled, clean laboratory – is changing the culture and media of a colony of human embryonic stem cells that once formed the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, a very early human life.

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