Umbilical cord blood has officially cured a little girl of leukemia. In 2005, a four-year-old girl in Germany received an infusion of stem cells from umbilical cord blood after her chemotherapy treatment failed. The girl, who had a projected three months...
Bioethics
Second Round of Embryonic Stem Cell Treatments Begin Next Year
For only the second time in history, the U.S. government has approved funding and treatment using human embryonic stem cells (hESC). This treatment will focus on those suffering from Stargardt disease, a rare eye disease affecting only 30,000 Americans that can...
More on the First Patient Treated with Embryonic Stem Cells
During October 2010, a patient in the U.S. became the first person in the world to receive treatment involving human embryonic stem cells in a FDA approved study. Embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) is fraught with controversy because it involves the destruction...
Two More Deaths Attributed to RU486
The September 30, 2010, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) included a letter to the editor from three researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). These researchers discussed two cases of women who died from complications after...
First Patient Treated with Embryonic Stem Cells
It was revealed on October 11th, 2010 that a patient in the U.S. became the first person in the world to receive treatment involving human embryonic stem cells in a FDA approved study. Embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) is fraught with controversy because it...
Stem Cell Research
History of Stem Cell Research What are Stem Cells? Stem cells are the basic building blocks of physiological tissue; they are not yet differentiated into specific types of tissue. Through normal development, they will become every type of tissue in the human...
Federal Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
On August 23rd, the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia enjoined an executive order that President Obama signed in March of 2009. Obama’s executive order reversed the restrictions on government funding of embryonic stem cell...
Judge Places Injunction on Obama Embryonic Stem Cell Policy
On August 23, Royce C. Lamberth, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, issued a preliminary injunction on the Obama administration’s embryonic stem cell policy. The order prohibits the administration from continuing to fund...