by APFLI | Oct 6, 2015 | Adult & Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Research (Ethical), Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell - Archive
Ieshea Thomas, a Chicago woman, is the first adult to be cured of sickle cell disease with the chemotherapy-free procedure at UI Hospital. Iesha Thomas has been in and out of hospitals battling sickle cell disease since she was only 8 months old. This summer,...
by APFLI | Oct 1, 2009 | Regenerative Medicine
From the files of Dr Dianne Irving ….. FYI — short list of references from studies recently published in PubMed concerning the endorsement and use of cloning by "embryo splitting" as "infertility treatments, and the push by lawyers to change...
by APFLI | Mar 14, 2007 | Regenerative Medicine
Egg harvesting and Embryonic Stem-cell Research Pose Serious Threat to Women’s Health A congressional hearing last Thursday raised awareness on the risks to women’s health and fertility by in vitro fertilization (IVF), human cloning, embryonic stem-cell...
by APFLI | Feb 11, 2007 | Regenerative Medicine
Hidden among the promises of cures and hype about the biotech boom is the fact that scores of thousands of women will have to provide millions of human eggs for embryonic stem cell research by a process which can be physically and emotionally damaging. ** Women who...
by APFLI | Nov 28, 2006 | Regenerative Medicine
by Dr. C. Ward Kischer, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, specialty in Human Embryology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona I am a human embryologist. I have spent a career in a "publish or perish" profession using a great deal of...
by APFLI | Nov 12, 2006 | Regenerative Medicine
William Haseltine, CEO of Human Genome Sciences, is a leading advocate of embryonic stem cell research. But, he says results are decades away and his company is not spending money on the unproven cells. “The routine utilization of human embryonic stem cells for...
by APFLI | Sep 18, 2006 | Regenerative Medicine
Fears of Exploitation by Biotechnology Mount Women are under increasing pressure to freeze their ova or to donate them for research purposes. Recently a director of a fertility service in West Midlands, England, recommended that women freeze their eggs early so as to...
by APFLI | Dec 26, 2005 | Regenerative Medicine
The research of Korean embryonic stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has been declared intentionally fabricated by a panel of scientists at Seoul National University. Based on these findings, data in the 2005 Science journal cannot be regarded as a simple accidental...
by APFLI | Dec 23, 2005 | Regenerative Medicine
From Family Research Council – Washington, DC – www.frc.org – 800-225-4008 Touted ESCR Diabetes Studies, NO CURES: 2001 Media heralded study showed that embryonic stem cells turned into pancreatic cells. In fact, they only produced 1/50th the normal...
by APFLI | Dec 23, 2005 | Regenerative Medicine
From Family Research Council and www.stemcellresearch.org: Touted ESCR Heart StudiesMixed Results in Animals: 2004 Doctors at the Mayo Clinic transformed embryonic stem cells into fully functional cardiac cells and transplanted them into damaged regions of the hearts...
by APFLI | Dec 23, 2005 | Regenerative Medicine
From Family Research Council & www.stemcellresearch.org Touted ESCR Spinal Cord Injury Studies in Animals: 2005 California researchers used human embryonic stem cells to treat rats with acute but not chronic spinal cord injury. The stem cells were turned into the...
by APFLI | Dec 23, 2005 | Regenerative Medicine
Touted ESCR (Embryonic Stem Cell Research) Parkinsons StudiesMixed Results in Animals: 2005 A Japanese team turned monkey embryonic stem cells into neural stem cells. They transplanted these into monkeys with artificially induced Parkinsonss, and some cells turned...
by APFLI | Dec 22, 2005 | Regenerative Medicine
New Report: EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS PROVIDE NO SUPPORT FOR GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF NEW LINES A report released by an international scientific team documents that human embryonic stem cells accumulate genetic mutations as they are cultured in the lab (1). The...
by APFLI | Jul 25, 2005 | Regenerative Medicine
The Presidents Council on Bioethics, the body that advises President Bush on issues related to cloning, stem cell research and the new reproductive technologies, has issued a report suggesting that stem cells may not have to be taken from living embryos for research....
by APFLI | Jul 24, 2005 | Regenerative Medicine
The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal calls recent headlines that claim research using embryonic stem cells will lead to cures for an almost unending number of diseases to be “sensationalist” and “hype” even though the journal...
by APFLI | Apr 15, 2005 | Regenerative Medicine
Testimony of Pia de Solenni before the Massachusetts State Legislature’s Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies FRC’s Director of Life and Women’s Issues Pia de Solenni, Ph.D. gave the following...
by APFLI | Nov 27, 2004 | Regenerative Medicine
HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS NOT SO INVISIBLE OR THERAPEUTIC AFTER ALL — Research by a team at the Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem that contradicts a claim of human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) proponents was published in recent weeks in the Proceedings of the...
by APFLI | Nov 20, 2004 | Regenerative Medicine
As a physician, National Institutes of Health-funded researcher and biotech company owner, I would like to address the [newspaper] recent editorial advocating lifting the state ban on embryonic stem cell research (“State must lift stem cell research ban,”...
by APFLI | Sep 9, 2004 | Regenerative Medicine
Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates contributed $400,000 to the campaign backing a CA ballot measure that would make billions of dollars available for human embryonic stem cell research and cloning projects in the state, public campaign recordsshowed. Gates is the...
by APFLI | Jun 3, 2004 | Regenerative Medicine
Scientists Advance Destructive Research Despite Adult Stem Cell Success — Despite the fact that embryonic stem cell research offers little chance of success, researchers around the world are apparently prepared to gamble on it, according to a survey conducted by...