There was a time when scientists and doctors thought the best way to cure the diseases plaguing humanity was to bleed the poisons from them. Besides not doing anything productive the process could actually have a bad effect and weaken the patient enough to kill them. As dumb as this sounds it was the best […]

I have written many times about the exaggerated claims surrounding Embryonic Stem Cell made by people who should know better. The reality is Embyronic Stem Cells cannot be controlled in terms of guiding them to assume the form of replacement cells and tissues to battle diseases. In fact they tend to create tumors and cancers […]

For those who have faulty heart valves there is now a scientific breakthrough to create new valves from their own bone marrow. In another stunning breakthrough for Adult Stem Cell Research, replacement heart valves are being grown from adult stem cells, avoiding the problem of tissue rejection completely: In April, a team led by heart […]

Some researchers in California (so much for the myth there is no ESCR in the US) are making the claim they can take out embryonic stem cells without ‘destroying’ the embryo. Their track record is one more of snake oil peddlers than scientists: Scientists said they grew colonies of human stem cells without harming the […]

President Bush (or President Jorge to his GOP bretheren) is standing tall on another critical issue – life. He is going to veto a bill that would provide for harvesting young human beings for the spare parts. Spare parts lying dormant as blue prints inside the stem cells of their young bodies. And even though […]

To do biological and medical research you need to put aside or turn of a lot of human emotion and become more machine than human being. It is necessary to go in and cut something in order to save it, or kill it in order to find new knowledge. I know from first hand experience […]

Science has a way of solving our problems, and usually can do it within normal moral guidelines if given the chance to work without hype and speculation from the science-challenged media. Case in point, a potentially unlimited supply of stem cells from skin – the one organ that regenerates constantly and which can be harvested […]

Another problem we have is we are losing our respect for life. I guess in this culture of trivializing others we have become used to destroying rather than respecting. The House of Representatives came way too close to legislating the harvesting of young human beings for spare parts. The numbers are stunning: The House approved […]

Researchers have been able to turn skin cells into stem cells in mice, giving researchers an unlimited supply of cells straight from the patient from which to creare therapies. Three scientific teams published separate studies on Wednesday showing that embryonic stem cells can be made by reprogramming some of the genes in adult skin cells, […]

I have to note that the difference between Embryonic Stem Cell therapies and Adult Stem Cell Therapies are that the ESC therapies are always years away while ASC therapies are here now. So when I read this promise to correct Macular Degeneration (in five years time) I wondered how many people would kill a human […]