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Adult Stem Cells "Gave Me a New Lease on Life," Cindy Schroeder Says in StemCellResearchFacts.org Testimonial Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through September 7. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of...
By David Prentice, Research Director, Charlotte Lozier Institute Editor’s note. This first appeared in the Daily Caller and is reprinted with the author’s permission. Stem cell therapies and their lifesaving results are arguably the best kept medical secret. Stem...
By Dave Andrusko The headline in Nature World News seemingly couldn’t be much more optimistic: “Goodbye Arthritis: Stem Cell Therapy Could Revolutionize Hip Replacement.” Except for the additional good news when the reader learns the source of the stem cells. Not...
By Dave Andrusko I was pleased but not surprised at the response to “Ethically sound stem cells provide “meaningful” recover in stroke victims” that ran yesterday in NRL News Today. Good news sometimes really does travel fast. The research at Stanford University...
By Wesley J. Smith So, once again the damned-with-faint-praise adult stem cell field seems headed toward significant treatment breakthroughs. This time stroke. From the Washington Post story: Grain of salt. Grain of salt. Grain of salt. Sometimes studies such as this...
By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. This appeared on Wesley’s great blog. “Lymphocytes” are white blood cells that provide long-lasting immunity. “Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant” means they were stem cells taken from the patient’s own blood-forming stem...
By Wesley J. Smith If this human breakthrough had occurred with embryonic stem cells, the front page stories would have screamed around the world. But it was adult stem cells and so the reporting was muted. You see, the media still–after all these years–tend to judge...
Today the Charlotte Lozier Institute released its newest Stem Cell Research Facts video telling the story of 10-year-old Devon Weaver of Arizona. For many years, Devon’s parents and doctors were mystified as to why he struggled with everyday activities such as sitting...
By Wesley J. Smith THIS CAN’T BE TRUE! Embryonic stem cells are the ONLY HOPE, “the scientists” and their media and celebrity camp followers repeatedly insisted–as they urged priority funding for studies from embryonic stem cells. Except, those who argued that adult...
By Bill Cassidy and David Prentice In the wake of videos exposing its involvement in trading fetal organs, Planned Parenthood has resorted to a “silver lining” defense. The taking of brains, hearts, lungs and livers from the unborn, even the delivery of intact fetal...