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The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a document Friday warning against what they consider the moral dangers of embryonic stem cell research, saying it treats human beings as commodities and reduces …
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Unproven Stem Cell Therapies Condemned as `Medical Tourism'Bloomberg - Jun 13, 2008By Rob Waters June 12 (Bloomberg) — Unproven stem cell therapies that lure desperate patients around the globe must be condemned and stopped, …More patients seek experimental stem cell therapy Boston GlobeStem cell experts offer guide to fight "snake oil" ReutersScientists to issue stem-cell guide [...]
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Geron says stem cell treatment does well in early testsBizjournals.com, NC - Jun 12, 2008Menlo Park-based Geron (NASDAQ: GERN) presented data on the studies at an annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in Philadelphia …
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IN his laboratory here at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Dr. David W. Rowe looked at two X-rays that appeared too good to be true. The first showed a mouse that had part of a tibia removed to simulate an injury so severe as to require amputation. In the next, the mouse’s leg had [...]
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James A. Thomson’s laboratory reported a way to turn human cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells.
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Turning human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo could quell an ethical debate.