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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...
Editor’s note. The following was distributed Tuesday by the office of Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ). On the very first day of the fall session, the House took up and passed vital legislation authored by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) to continue America’s bone marrow and cord...
Editor’s note. This was posted on the blog of Right to Life of Michigan, NRLC’s state affiliate. July is National Cord Blood Awareness Month What is cord blood? Cord blood is found in a baby’s umbilical cord and is a rich source of ethical stem cells. Why is cord...
By Dave Andrusko It is one of those stories that makes everyone wipe a tear of joy away and then celebrate. Devon Still is a defensive tackle for Cincinnati Bengals. Yesterday Still shared a photo on Instagram of his daughter Leah preparing for a stem cell transplant....
By Dave Andrusko On Tuesday we wrote about some remarkable progress made in the fight against MS using adult stem cells. In a nutshell, as David Prentice, Ph.D., explained to NRL News Today, the team at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, England, had...
By Dave Andrusko If we’ve written once about the successful uses of adult stem cells, we’ve probably written 50 times, demonstrating that ethically unobjectionable adult stem cells are far superior in practice to stem cells taken from embryonic human beings. When it...
By Dave Andrusko A 38-year-old Bulgarian man is believed to be the first person in the world to recover from a complete severing of the spinal nerves, thanks to a pioneering transplant treatment that took cells from his nose. Note: these are not embryonic stem...
By Dave Andrusko Well, you have to give the Washington Post’s editorial lauding the supposedly now-realized “potential” of embryonic stem cells, this much: they did spell the most prominent author’s name correctly. After that, not so much. Last Thursday Dr....
By David Prentice Excitement over a newly-released paper on stem cells making insulin is a tribute to the Harvard stem cell Press Office. The actual report is quite a bit less earth-shaking than the first paragraph from the Harvard Gazette screams: “[A] giant...
By David Prentice Bryan Hinkle was living the American dream. But a disease called CIDP got in the way. CIDP(Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy) is an autoimmune disease that attacks the peripheral nerves. Bryan was diagnosed with CIDP as a...