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- Same old New Jersey
  Posted by fozapd from The Scientist
  Stem cell prospects dim in NJ. Without funds, plans for a new state stem cell institute were recently canned and an empty lot now sits where the research hub might have been.
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- Scientists claim embryonic stem cell advance - Stem Cell Research
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  In a leap forward for stem cell research, three independent teams of scientists reported Wednesday that they have produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells in mice using skin cells without the controversial destruction of embryos.
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- Diabetes 'blocked by stem cells'
  Posted by Jeff from BBC News
  Bush wants to keep Americans out of the research for stem cell treatments: People with the condition are known as insulin-dependent, and require regular shots of the hormone. But 14 out of 15 young people newly diagnosed with the condition no longer needed injections - sometimes for years - following the stem cell treatment.
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- Heart valve grown from stem cells - Bush Keeps U.S. Out of Emerging Market
  Posted by Jeff from BBC News
  Heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub, who led the team, said doctors could be using artificially grown heart components in transplants within three years. Thanks to the Bush administration, U.S. health care systems will have to pay for the rights to these technologies from foreign companies. U.S. research has been nearly bannished.
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- Heart valves grown from cells in womb
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Scientists for the first time have grown human heart valves using stem cells obtained from the fluid that cushions fetuses in the womb, offering a revolutionary approach that may be used to repair defective hearts in the future.
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- Senators Denounce Scientist's Stem Cell Claims
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  "It's a big black eye if scientists are making false and inaccurate representations," a combative Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations labor, health and human services subcommittee, which he chairs. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in Worcester, Mass., defended his work and the company's statements. "Our paper is 100 percent correct," said the visibly shaken scientist, referring to the highly publicized article that appeared in the Aug. 24 issue of the journal Nature. "You're on the ropes!" Specter retorted, capping one of several exchanges in which he and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), a fellow advocate of stem cell research, repeatedly interrupted and scolded Lanza. But Ronald M. Green, a Dartmouth University ethicist who was among several who approved the experimental protocol, told the senators they were wrong to belittle the findings or the way they were reported.
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- Gene Called Link Between Life Span and Cancers
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  Biologists have uncovered a deep link between life span and cancer in the form of a gene that switches off stem cells as a person ages. The finding suggests that many degenerative diseases of aging are caused by an active shutting down of the stem cells that renew the body’s various tissues and are not just a passive disintegration of tissues under daily wear and tear. “I don’t think aging is a random process — it’s a program, an anticancer program,” said Dr. Norman E. Sharpless of the University of North Carolina, senior author of one of the three reports.
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Diabetes 'blocked by stem cells'

I watched cspan last night with activists who want to change the Farm Bill (voted on every 5 years or so) from feeding our school children processed corn and soybeans to natural food. Think the figures they stated were 1 in 4 children have diabetes before before the graduate from highschool, and 1 in 2 of same group will have diabetes in a decade(?), nonetheless, stem cells discussions is irrelevant as our children aren’t getting diabetes from insulin difficiencies or lack of stem cell research…. again another ass-backwards thinking article promoted by big pharma to give us surgery and drugs to cure our symptoms. I’m feeling sick already, shoot me some stem cells.

I’m not against stem cell research, just wish we could use more common sense in analyzing this health issue.

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