Article from Wired magazine:
Paralyzed Rats Walk; Humans Next?
http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67501,00.html
Researchers studying embryonic stem cells have published long-awaited data in a peer-reviewed journal, revealing how they enabled rats with crushed spinal cords to walk again. Spinal cord injury patients are hopeful, but they're not all celebrating just yet.
Full Version: Remember - who called it junk science?
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Now if we could only perfect AI, the Republicans could manage coherent thought.
QUOTE(normdoering @ May 16 2005, 02:29 PM)
Article from Wired magazine:
Paralyzed Rats Walk; Humans Next?
http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67501,00.html
Researchers studying embryonic stem cells have published long-awaited data in a peer-reviewed journal, revealing how they enabled rats with crushed spinal cords to walk again. Spinal cord injury patients are hopeful, but they're not all celebrating just yet.
Paralyzed Rats Walk; Humans Next?
http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67501,00.html
Researchers studying embryonic stem cells have published long-awaited data in a peer-reviewed journal, revealing how they enabled rats with crushed spinal cords to walk again. Spinal cord injury patients are hopeful, but they're not all celebrating just yet.
A new Wired article on stem cells:
http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/medtech/0,...tw=wn_tophead_2
"Korean scientists have used cloned human embryos to derive tailor-made stem cells from sick patients, a breakthrough with dramatic implications for the development of useful stem-cell therapies that could help shift the debate over human cloning."
It's just like Ron Reagan was saying at the Democratic convention!
QUOTE(normdoering @ May 20 2005, 12:24 AM)
A new Wired article on stem cells:
http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/medtech/0,...tw=wn_tophead_2
"Korean scientists have used cloned human embryos to derive tailor-made stem cells from sick patients, a breakthrough with dramatic implications for the development of useful stem-cell therapies that could help shift the debate over human cloning."
It's just like Ron Reagan was saying at the Democratic convention!
http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/medtech/0,...tw=wn_tophead_2
"Korean scientists have used cloned human embryos to derive tailor-made stem cells from sick patients, a breakthrough with dramatic implications for the development of useful stem-cell therapies that could help shift the debate over human cloning."
It's just like Ron Reagan was saying at the Democratic convention!
NewScientist.com has more:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7401
Cloned human embryos deliver tailored stem cells
Hwang’s laboratory is now way ahead of the field, says Minger, who recently visited the lab. They perfected their technique by performing some 1200 nuclear transfers every day on cells from sheep and cattle. Minger says that the quality of the science and the government support is as strong as anything he has seen in other labs and, in many cases, even better.
“There is a good chance that the US will be left behind as the situation on stem cell research there becomes more fragmented and incoherent,” he adds.
That line "the US will be left behind" is the price of Bush's stem cell policy.
QUOTE(normdoering @ May 20 2005, 10:08 AM)
NewScientist.com has more:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7401
Cloned human embryos deliver tailored stem cells
Hwang’s laboratory is now way ahead of the field, says Minger, who recently visited the lab. They perfected their technique by performing some 1200 nuclear transfers every day on cells from sheep and cattle. Minger says that the quality of the science and the government support is as strong as anything he has seen in other labs and, in many cases, even better.
“There is a good chance that the US will be left behind as the situation on stem cell research there becomes more fragmented and incoherent,” he adds.
That line "the US will be left behind" is the price of Bush's stem cell policy.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7401
Cloned human embryos deliver tailored stem cells
Hwang’s laboratory is now way ahead of the field, says Minger, who recently visited the lab. They perfected their technique by performing some 1200 nuclear transfers every day on cells from sheep and cattle. Minger says that the quality of the science and the government support is as strong as anything he has seen in other labs and, in many cases, even better.
“There is a good chance that the US will be left behind as the situation on stem cell research there becomes more fragmented and incoherent,” he adds.
That line "the US will be left behind" is the price of Bush's stem cell policy.
Stem cell research is not the only way the US is being left behind. The same
mentality that got us the Bush Administration twice, unfortunately, controls most
of the local school boards in the country--a preference for building empires and
conducting religious crusades over educating our children and protecting their health.
QUOTE(normdoering @ May 16 2005, 02:29 PM)
Article from Wired magazine:
Paralyzed Rats Walk; Humans Next?
http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67501,00.html
Researchers studying embryonic stem cells have published long-awaited data in a peer-reviewed journal, revealing how they enabled rats with crushed spinal cords to walk again. Spinal cord injury patients are hopeful, but they're not all celebrating just yet.
Paralyzed Rats Walk; Humans Next?
http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67501,00.html
Researchers studying embryonic stem cells have published long-awaited data in a peer-reviewed journal, revealing how they enabled rats with crushed spinal cords to walk again. Spinal cord injury patients are hopeful, but they're not all celebrating just yet.
It appears I wasn't the only one watching the progress, there's a bill trying to get more funds for stem cell research. The House bill sponsored by Reps. Mike Castle, R-Del., and Diana DeGette, D-Colo.. They say it carries great promise in the fight against diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Information on the bills, H.R. 810 and H.R. 596, can be found at: http://thomas.loc.gov
Washington post article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5052300050.html
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