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Stem cells in Texas: Cowboy culture : Nature News & Comment

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Nature - By David Cyranoski - Feb. 18 (News) - By offering unproven therapies, a Texas biotechnology firm has sparked a bitter debate about how stem cells should be regulated.

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Outsourcing Science to Keep Results Untainted

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Matt Kettmann - Dec. 12 (Special Report) - As demonstrated by California's rigs-to-reef process, state governments are using nonprofit organizations to conduct research that will guide future policy without being tainted by it.

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Stem cell research can continue throughout appeal, court says

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Tribune - By David G. Savage - Sep. 29 (News) - Government-funded research on embryonic stem cells can continue, a U.S. appellate court said Tuesday, while lawyers appeal a judge's decision that found such research illegal.

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Senator pushes bill legalizing stem cell research

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jim Abrams - Sep. 13 (News) - Sen. Arlen Specter on Monday initiated a drive to legalize federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, superseding conflicting court decisions that he said are slowing critical work to find cures for crippling diseases.

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Stem Cell Research-Funding Ban Suspended During U.S. Government's Appeal

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By William McQuillen - Sep. 09 (News) - President Barack Obama’s administration can fund embryonic stem-cell research while it appeals a decision banning government support for any activity using cells taken from human embryos, an appeals court said. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today put on hold a ruling by District Judge Royce Lamberth during its review of the ban.

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Government appeals court ruling blocking stem-cell research funding

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Sep. 01 (News) - The Justice Department, as promised, moved Tuesday to block a court ruling preventing use of government funds for embryonic stem cell research.

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Obama to Appeal Stem Cell Ruling

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

HealthDay - Aug. 25 (News) - U.S. scientists reacted with dismay to Monday's decision by a U.S. judge to halt any expansion of stem cell research using federal funds.

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Judge stops federal funding of embryonic stem cell research

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Aug. 24 (News Report) - A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction Monday to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research that he said destroys embryos, ruling it went against the will of Congress.

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Two Leading Biotech Pubs Highlight Pressure BioSciences

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

finance.yahoo.com - Aug. 15 (News) - Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:PBIO - News) ) today announced that two leading biotechnology publications with worldwide readership and importance have highlighted the Company's pressure cycling technology ("PCT") platform in their August issues. Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News ("GEN") and Expert Review of Proteomics.

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California stem cell research: Were voters duped?

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Sally Lehrman - Jun. 07 (News Analysis) - In the aftermath of the stem cell initiative, William H. Fisher, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Assn. of Northern California and Northern Nevada, found himself repeatedly having to explain such matters to hopeful families. "I don't blame the Prop. 71 people, I blame the media," he says. Alzheimer's regularly led the list of potential stem cell cures in news reports, he says, but there's no reason right now to believe that embryonic stem cells will solve the disease. Storytellers at heart and fans of the dramatic, journalists gravitate toward the remarkable possibilities of medicine and the tragic plight of patients in need. We traffic in the language of life-saving miracles and then, for balance, throw in a dash of skepticism from a critic concerned about the sanctity of life or the exploitation of egg donors.

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Reality Check: The Inevitable Disappointments from Stem Cells: Scientific American

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Matt collins - May. 27 (Special Report) - Laboratories receiving federal money are once again free to work on the cell lines of their choice (with some important restrictions). So scientists at last mostly have what they have been asking for. And the public should now prepare to be disappointed. Perhaps “disappointed” is an overstatement, but a realistic recalibration of expectations is surely in order. The problem with turning a scientific issue into a political football is that the passionate rough-and-tumble of the game can leave the science itself rather scuffed. When opponents of ESC research likened it to genocide and Nazi concentration camp experiments, its proponents countered by emphasizing how irreplaceable ESCs were and how miraculous the cures arising from them could be. Whether or not those claims wandered into rhetorical excess, at least a few false hopes and misimpressions have probably been left behind.

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Stem cell division

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Peter Dizikes - May. 11 (Special Report) - No sooner had Obama issued his order than conservative lawmakers in state legislatures began proposing new restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, ranging from criminal penalties to bans on state-level funding. In fact, Obama's decision has emboldened conservatives to increasingly link stem cell research to abortion. Far from conceding the issue, they are in it for the long haul.

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Thailand: The future of stem cell research?

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Patrick Winn - Mar. 24 (News Report) - In Thailand, worlds away from the political din surrounding stem cells in America, more and more parents are choosing to bank the cord blood of their newborns to use, perhaps, in future medical treatments. Thailand could be well-positioned to cash in on the trend, as the business of storing stem cells relies on two factors: high birth rates and a class of moneyed parents. Thailand, already a regional healthcare mecca, has both.

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Obesity Caught Like Common Cold

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

LiveScience - By Robert Roy Britt - Jan. 26 (News Report) - Yet another claim that a common and contagious virus is linked to some cases of obesity is in the news today. Studies on humans show that 33 per cent of obese adults had contracted an adenovirus called AD-36 at some point in their lives, according to an article in the UK's Daily Express, whereas only 11 per cent of lean men and women have had the virus.

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Study: Testicle cells as versatile as embryo stem cells | Front page | Chron.com

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Houston Chronicle - By Seth Borenstein - Oct. 08 (News Report) - Cells taken from men's testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported Wednesday in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field.

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McCain Equates Embryos and Fetuses in Stem Cell Statement

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Brandon Keim - Sep. 20 (News Report) - John McCain's recent statement on embryonic stem cell research was ambiguous in some ways, but clearly misleading in another: He equated human embryos with fetuses, and used language implying that farming fetuses for their tissues is a realistic possibility.

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A Scientific Advance, a Political Question Mark

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:35:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Michael Abramowitz, Rick Weiss - Nov. 21 (News Report) - The discovery that it is possible to create equivalents to embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos has the potential to reshape -- and perhaps defuse -- the acrimonious political debate that has raged ever since human embryonic stem cells were discovered in 1998. Even before the research was officially published yesterday, White House officials began making the case that the studies vindicated the president's unwavering six-year opposition to funding for embryo-cell research and his long-standing position that scientific progress is possible without offending the morality of millions of Americans.

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New Jersey & Stem Cells on National Review Online

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:56:02 -0700

National Review - By Charlie Spiering - Oct. 30 (Special Report) - New Jersey has been paving the road for embryonic-stem-cell research since 2004, when then-Governor James McGreevey (D.) signed into law the most permissive legislation in the nation for embryonic-stem-cell research. It permits cloning, the destruction of human embryos, and even "fetus farming" for experimentation. In December 2005, New Jersey became the first state to finance research using human embryonic stem cells, as legislators boasted that they were overcoming President's Bush's veto of federal funding for the research.

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Former Surgeon General Testifies

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:41:43 -0700

PBS - Jul. 10 (Interview) - You'll notice that the surgeon generals who spoke with me came from different administrations. They all suffered the same problems. And what we wanted to do is come together with one voice and let the American public know that they should be outraged that their surgeons general of the United States have been marginalized and have been relegated to positions of relatively little importance, by political ideology, theology, and the appropriate discourse not coming out in society.

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Understanding the political timing of stem cell studies

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:15:19 -0700

ScienceBlogs.com - By Matthew C. Nisbet - Jun. 11 (Opinion) - Consider the following events, their political timing, and their impact on the framing of the stem cell debate: 1) Last week, as the House was preparing to vote on legislation that would overturn Bush's limits on funding for embryonic stem cell research, studies published at the journals Nature and Cell Stem Cell reported that mouse skin stem cells could be turned into a pluripotent stem cell with all the characteristics of an embryonic stem cell. Coverage of the studies appeared on the front page of the Washington Post and other newspapers across the country. Though the research teams connected to the two studies urged Congress to pass the legislation, Catholic and pro-life groups were quick to frame the event as offering a "middle way compromise," adding that moving ahead with embryonic stem cell research was no longer necessary. Others argued, as in this op-ed appearing at the Chicago Tribune, that a conspiracy was afoot to censor the promise of adult stem cell research: Significant numbers of scientists believe that the less controversial route to creating stem cells is possible, but their voices have been drowned out by politicians who would have it that if you're opposed to embryonic stem cell research, you're a "right-wing nut" who opposes all stem cell research.

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What Dad didn't tell you about the birds and bees.

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:41:00 -0700

Slate - By William Saletan - Jun. 09 (Special Report) - It's time to talk about the birds and the bees. No, I don't mean sex. You've already heard that story: Boy meets girl, sperm meets egg, a baby grows in mommy's tummy. That's the way of all flesh. Or so you were told. Well, you know how it is with the stories we tell kids. We leave a few things out. The truth about babies is that sometimes, there's no sperm. There's just an egg, but a baby hatches anyway. Many bees don't have daddies. Neither do some birds. It's called parthenogenesis--literally, virgin birth. We're finding more and more animals that can reproduce this way, and we're learning how to engineer it in others. We're even tinkering with mommy-daddy procreation in humans. If you think sex is kinky, wait till you see the alternatives.

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Stem Cells Can Be Cancer Cell Lookalikes

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:13:43 -0700

HealthDay - By Robert Preidt - Jun. 08 (News Report) - U.S. researchers have discovered that bone marrow stem cells attracted to an area of cancer growth frequently take on the outward appearance of the cancer cells around them. But they say it's not clear that these stem cells actually help cancer develop. Many scientists believe that the bone marrow stem cells do boost the growth and spread of cancer. But the University of Florida researchers say the stem cells may simply resemble the surrounding cancer cells, but not act like them.

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Stem cells are one thing

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:45:42 -0700

Salon - By Lynn Harris - Jun. 08 (Opinion) - We tend to think of stem cell research in terms of its potential to help prevent adult disease. According to Liza Mundy in yesterday's Washington Post, its cousin, embryo research, is also "important to the health of mothers and infants." And, actually, to the health of embryos themselves. Here's the problem. Doctors performing in-vitro fertilization, Mundy writes, "have no reliable way of telling which embryo [created outside the womb] has the crucial ability to develop into a fetus." Result No. 1: To improve the odds of pregnancy, they routinely implant more than one embryo. Result No. 2: More than half of IVF babies are twins, triplets or more -- they're therefore major players in the "stunning escalation" of multiple births nationwide. So what? Multiples, Mundy points out, are more likely to come with complications risky to both babies and mother.

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Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:40:10 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas Wade - Jun. 07 (News Report) - In a surprising advance that could sidestep the ethical debates surrounding stem cell biology, researchers have come much closer to a major goal of regenerative medicine, the conversion of a patient's cells into specialized tissues that might replace those lost to disease.

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Stem Cell Bill Passes, Faces New Veto

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:00:29 -0700

Associated Press - By David Espo - Jun. 07 (News Report) - The Democratic-controlled Congress passed legislation Thursday to loosen restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, but the bill's supporters lacked the votes needed to override President Bush's threatened veto. The 247-176 House vote marked the second time in recent weeks that Democratic leaders have chosen to confront Bush over an issue on which they command widespread public support, following a veto struggle over a proposed troop withdrawal timetable from Iraq.

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