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By Dave Andrusko National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias ends the week with a reminder that “we’re never done educating on pro-life topics.” NRLC has written literally a hundred plus articles on “stem cell research,” but an honest...
By Wesley J. Smith Remember Ron Reagan’s nonsense speech about embryonic stem cell research (actually human cloning research) at the 2004 Democratic Convention? Media swooned at the garbage and the hype (e.g., Parkinson’s cures around 2014, “self repair kits” stored...
By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. We’ve written twice about a very important ruling by the European Union’s highest court that scientists can’t patent stem cells if they are obtained by destroying human embryos. As is often the case, Wesley Smith adds additional...
By Dr. Peter Saunders The New Scientist editorial this week, ‘In praise of stem-cell simplicity’, gives a fantastic overview of exciting new avenues in ethical stem cell research which are opening up. It should be required reading for all UK science journalists who...
By Dave Andrusko In another post today, we’ve combined three posts from Dr. David Prentice which tell us two important things. First, there continues to be tremendous forward movement in therapies that uses adult stem cells to treat flesh-and-blood patients. Second,...
Editor’s note. This appears on the blog of the Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization. Three exciting news stories about stem cell therapies – none of which involves the destruction of human embryos – have been announced this month. Stem cells have...
By Dave Andrusko What a story, and what a remarkable testimony of the power of adult stem cells. A 36-year-old Swedish man, diagnosed with terminal tracheal cancer, returned home this week after being given a new trachea grown entirely from his own stem cells using a...
By David Prentice Jack Dolan of the Los Angeles Times takes California’s stem cell agency (California Institute of Regenerative Medicine-- CIRM) to task for the exorbitant salaries paid to its executives, while other California agencies cut back and the state wrestles...
By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. This fine piece ran on Wesley’s blog. Legatus magazine asked me to write a column on the stem cell issue, and so I did. From “Good Ethics Makes for Good Science” [www.legatusmagazine.org/?p=4805]: Have you noticed that the stem-cell...
By David Prentice Editor’s note. The following appeared last week at Dr. Prentice’s great blog. The second part--the precursor to the good news at Stanford—is taken from an entry Dr. Prentice wrote last year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scientists at Stanford...