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STEM CELL NEWS

Adult Stem Cell Research Far Ahead of Embryonic

(New York Times)

University of Nebraska Weighs Tighter Limits on Stem Cell Research

(New York Times)

Your own stem cells can treat heart disease, study suggests

(ScienceDaily)

Faster route to stem-like cells

(Nature News)

Spraying on Skin Cells to Heal Burns

(Technology Review)

Family becomes first in UK to freeze baby's umbilical cord so stem cells can be harvested if they fall ill

(Mail Online)

California Awards Grants for Research Projects in Nonembryonic Stem Cells

(New York Times)

Identifying Safe Stem Cells To Repair Spinal Cords

(ScienceDaily)

Reprogramming a patient's eye cells may herald new treatments against degenerative disease

(PhysOrg)

Wayne State Study Shows Adult Stem Cell Grafts Help Paralyzed

(WWJ Newsradio)

A major step in making better stem cells from adult tissue

(PhysOrg)

Move towards regulation of stem cell therapeutics

(PHG Foundation)

In search of true stem-like cells

(Nature News)

Jaw bone created from stem cells

(BBC)

Liver Cells Grown From Patients' Skin Cells; Treatment Of Liver Diseases Possible

(ScienceDaily)

Researchers Take Another Stem Cell Step

(ABC News)

It's in the bank: Human cord blood reprogrammed into embryonic-like stem cells

(EurekaAlert)

Lowly fat cells may hold key to healthier hearts

(The Courier-Journal)

Dying patient saved with his own stem cells and mechanical heart

(Scotsman)

NIH picks stem cell panel

(The Scientist)

UPDATE 1-Neuralstem gets FDA OK to test stem cell drug in humans

(Reuters)

Stem cell co. faked success: SEC

(The Scientist)

'Liposuction leftovers' easily converted to IPS cells, study shows

(Physorg)

Gel hope for brain injury repair

(BBC)

Stem-cell drug could give lifeline to leukaemia sufferers

(Scotsman)

New stem cell treatment 'being used by patients to avoid hip replacements'

(Telegraph)

Researchers Make Insulin-Producing Cells From Adult Skin Cells

(HealthDay)

COMMENTARY AND INFO

Inconvenient stem cell facts

(The Examiner)

Playing Politics with Stem Cells

(American Thinker)

Press Release:

Paper in Journal of American Medical Association again Demonstrates Therapeutic Benefits of Adult Stem Cells

Embryonic Research Driven by Greed, not Science

(Michael Fumento)

Decades Away: The Dirty Secret of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

(Michael Fumento)

Q & A: FDA Approves First Clinical Trial of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

(DoNoHarm)

Q & A: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Making Embryo Stem Cells Obsolete

(DoNoHarm)

The President Politicizes Stem-Cell Research

(Wall Street Journal)

Why Embryonic Stem Cells Are Obsolete

(US News)

Embryonic Stem Cells 2.0

(Nature)

What comes after iPS?

(Nature)

Stem cell chimeras

(Guardian Unlimited)

New, Moral Approach to Stem Cell Research

(The Cowl)

In Yet Another Stem-Cell Miracle, Dems Have Dropped The Subject

(Investors)

Stem Cell Vindication

(Washington Post)

Stem-Cell Success Story

(National Review Online)

Doubling Down on Stem Cells

(National Review Online)

Moral, fiscal objections to stem-cell referendum

(Home News Tribune)

Don't buy the hype on stem cell

(North Jersey)

Korean stem-cell researchers focus on the clinic

(Nature)

Alternative energy for embryonic stem cell research

(Nature)

Missouri Manipulation: Don't get conned on cloning

(National Review Online)

Danforth used disingenuous language to advance embryonic stem cell research agenda

(STLtoday)

Ethical stem cell research progresses

(News-Leader)

Australia: New science leaves cloning as dead as Dolly

(On Line Opinion)

Women carry cloning burden

(Daily Telegraph)

A Stem-Cell Solution

(National Review Online)

Cloning by any other name is still cloning

(Jewish World Review)

Stem cells and moral preening

(Washington Times)

Stem-Cell Politics, Then and Now

(contentions)

Patients, Not Politics: Support ethical stem-cell research that works

(National Review Online)

Commentary Archive . . .

NEW RESOURCES!

New DoNoHarm Blog

Most Recent Post - Walking back the hype?

New poll: americans continue to oppose tax funding for embryonic stem cell research, support ethical alternatives

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - September 16, 2010

Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and the Commodification of Human Life

The ethical controversy surrounding human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) arises from one fact: the research requires the destruction of a living human embryo in order to acquire the stem cells. That the human embryo is a human life is agreed upon by all sides. Indeed, if the human embryo were not a human life, and recognized as such, the research would be ethically non-contentious. (DoNoHarm)

Do We Still Need Embryos & Cloning?

Answering common claims about iPSCs

A Statement from DoNoHarm

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells without Cloning or Destroying Embryos (PDF)

Australia: New Website

Our sister organization DoNoHarm: Australians for Ethical Stem Cell Research

Fact Sheets (PDF)

UPDATED March 2009

- Adult Stem Cell Plasticity

- Diabetes Treatments

- Heart Treatments

- Parkinson's Treatments

- Spinal Cord Injury Treatments

- Contaminated? Useless? The Truth About Stem Cells

The Audacity of Hype: Wasting Taxpayer Lives and Wasting Taxpayer Dollars

Feb. 12, 2009

This Stem Cell policy lecture is available via webcast at www.frc.org.

Insight

Adult Stem Cell Success Stories- July-December 2008 Update

by David Prentice, PhD, William L. Saunders, JD, Jan Ledochowski, and Lukas Lucenic

FDA Approves First Clinical Trial with Human Embryonic Stem Cells: The Audacity of Hope

Decision shows, once again, that embryonic stem cells still lag far behind adult stem cells in treating patients - DoNoHarm

Check the Score

Benefits of Stem Cells to Human Patients - DoNoHarm

Necessary Reading:

Consumer's Guide to the Brave New World
by Wesley J. Smith

How Adult Stem Cell Therapies Saved My Life: Medicine's Best Kept Secret Can Save Your Life
by Bernard van Zyl

Check with Chip on Stem Cell Research
by Chip Maxwell

Imagining the Future
by Yuval Levin

There But for the Grace of God
by Carol Franz

More Information

Founding Members

Kevin FitzGerald, SJ, PhD
Associate Professor of Oncology
David Lauler Professor for Catholic Health Care Ethics
Georgetown University

C. Christopher Hook, MD
Hematology/Medical Oncology,
The Mayo Clinic (Minnesota);
Chair, Mayo Clinical Ethics Council,
Mayo Reproductive Medicine Advisory Board and DNA Research Committee

Ralph Miech, MD, PhD
Associate Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology
Brown University School of Medicine

Robert D. Orr, MD
Director of Ethics, FAHC
University of Vermont College of Medicine

David A. Prentice, PhD
Senior Fellow for Life Sciences
Family Research Council

Frank E. Young, MD, PhD
Former Commissioner,
US Food and Drug Administration;
Dean Emeritus,
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry;
Director, Reformed Theological Seminary,
Metro Washington, DC

Joseph Zanga, MD, FAAP, FCP
Director, Office of Generalist Programs
National Health Service Corp Ambassador
Professor of Pediatrics
Brody School of Medicine at ECU