Stem Cell Research

MEDIA

Stem Cells Make Blind Kid See

Yeah, can't imagine why would want to use them. Macie Morse was born with optic nerve hypoplasia, meaning her optic nerve didn't develop all the way. The only way to repair it was to grow more of the nerve using umbilical cord stem cells. She and her mother traveled all the way ...read more

MEDIA

Obama To Lift Bush Stem Cell Ban Monday

New stem cell lines will be allowed to be created. Science wins. (per NBC) More: Although the exact wording of the order has not been revealed, the White House plans an 11 a.m. ceremony to sign the order repealing one of the most controversial steps taken by his predecessor, ...read more

MEDIA

Elections, Thank God, Have Consequences

"Foes of stem cell research now face tough battle" Now that we've got a pro-science presidency, so many more lives can be saved. ...read more

Opinion

Stem Cells Cure Another Disease

Science! Using stem cells from umbilical cord blood and bone marrow, researchers have apparently cured a fatal genetic disease in a 2-year-old Minneapolis boy, which could open the door for other stem cell treatments. For the first time in his life, Nate Liao is wearing normal ...read more

Opinion

Save Lives, End The Ban

"Hillary Pledges to Lift Ban on Stem Cell Research as President." On the flip-flop flip side, Mitt Romney is still trying to smooth talk his way through his pretzel-like position on the issue. ...read more

Opinion

Stem Cells Repairing Eyes

Imagine how much further along stem cell research would be if our luddite president had not vetoed stem cell research. Stem cells made from human embryos can home in on damaged eyes, hearts and arteries of mice and rats, and appear to start repairs, a US company says. ...read more

Opinion

Adult Stem Cells Kill

Another inconvenient truth. They're mass murderers, in fact. In only five years between 2000 and 2004, adult stem cells used in some 25,000 bone marrow transplant treatments have been complicit in at least 3,629 American deaths, 624 of which involved children under the age of 18, ...read more

Opinion

A Scientist Disagrees With The Political Mewling Of George W. Bush

The drumbeat continues. The director of the National Institutes of Health said Monday that the nation would be better served if federally funded scientists had access to new colonies of embryonic stem cells for research. Elias Zerhouni, testifying at a Senate Labor, Health and ...read more

Opinion

Adult Stem Cells Probably No Good

Just more evidence that the next Democratic president needs to make the promise of lifting the de facto ban on stem cell research a major part of the 2008 campaign. A scientific panel says a 2002 study that suggested adult stem cells might be as useful as embryonic ones was ...read more