Showing posts with label stem cells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stem cells. Show all posts

Monday, August 2, 2010

Adult stem cell studies abound for heart, diabetes, MS; far ahead of embryonic research

"A few months ago, Dr. Thomas Einhorn was treating a patient with a broken ankle that wouldn't heal, even with multiple surgeries. So he sought help from the man's own body.

Einhorn drew bone marrow from the man's pelvic bone with a needle, condensed it to about four teaspoons of rich red liquid, and injected that into his ankle."

Click here for more on these promising findings.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

'Lines that Divide': The Great Stem Cell Debate

"Scientists at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, are discovering a potential cure for leukemia and sickle-cell disease. How? By using blood stem cells from the placentas of women who have had Caesarian deliveries.

But researchers at the hospital are frustrated. State agencies have made multi-million-dollar grants available for embryo-destructive research, but money is scarce for its ethically sound counterpart, adult stem cell research."

Read more of Chuck Colson's commentary.