stem cell

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/23/AR2010082303448.html Judge rules that NIH cannot fund embryonic stem-cell research. This is another example of religion trying to retard scientific advances.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5771061/Human-sperm-created-from-stem-cells-in-world-first-claims-British-university.html According to the item linked, scientists have managed to create viable sperm from stem cells in mice. Possible implications include a route to parthenogenesis...

Hi Has anyone else seen this? I'm not a doctor or anything, and the things doctors normally do seems completely off the wall to me, but this stuff is off Off-the-Wall's wall!! Here's a link to the CBS News website that has a news article on stuff they're doing to regrow body parts, like...

It seems that scientists have made embryonic stem cell equivalents created from adult human skin cells! http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/20/stem.cells.ap/index.html eta: time article http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1685965,00.html?cnn=yes

This could just as easily go into the Science forum, but since it's such a charged debate over the ethics of killing human embryos for research... Link. Appears to be a huge breakthrough. Even the Vatican approves.

This week's US News and World report ran a story about how researchers reporgrammed adult mouse genes to become, in effect, stem cells. It goes into more detail than that, but that's the gist of it. I posted the story on my cube wall, and a co-worker commented that stem-cell is unproven to do...