It seems the UK had plans to restrict the Frankenstein monster of hybrid human-animal creations, but the desire for money trumped common sense: Plans to outlaw the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos for potentially life-saving stem cell research are to be dropped after a revolt by scientists. The proposed government ban on fusing human DNA […]

As the Embryonic Stem Cell Research (ESCR) continues to try and simply produce a contamination free set of cells that do more than cause cancers and other damaging growths, the Adult Stem Cell Research is making absolutely incredible advances. Our good friend The Anchoress not only pointed me to this news on amniotic stem cells […]

Richard Branson is a business genius. He has stepped right into the controversial stem cell debate and come up with a superb idea: Sir Richard Branson will launch his most controversial business to date as he moves into stem-cell storage and the biotech sector, The Times has learnt. The Virgin-branded company will be launched next […]

The human race is at a critical crossroads right now. We are going to decide what kinds of creatures we will be for all time. And key to that decision is whether we kill young humans so that old and ill humans can pretend they are extending their life. The Embryonic Stem Cell Research (ESCR) […]

I want to focus in on one aspect of the groundbreaking genetic study which I wrote about below that illustrates the unlocked power of evolution, and why we cannot allow companies to ‘own’ human genes. It is the genes that resist disease that will help cure disease. But human genes cannot ever be property – […]

There is a major breakthrough in genetics being announced today that will forever change the science of genetics, and which just made the challenges facing Embryonic Stem Cell Research (ESCR) even more daunting. The news out is the discovery that we have more than one copy of some genes which provide for much more variability […]

Update:Would people believe an Embryologist? Update: For those unfamiliar with basic biology here is a layman’s version of DNA (the core of your existence) and how it is created. In addition, courts have already declared a human embryo a human being. This decision will stand because of the science backing it. More here. – end […]

Free Adult Stems Cells of course. Why should anyone be shocked that vital cells are being harvested from human beings? Isn’t that the crux of Embryonic Stem Cells – harvest the soon to be organs for paying customers? At least this method avoids the cancerous growths which occur with Embryonic Stem Cells and gets to […]

Reader ama055131 (OK, I don’t pick the names) pointed to a huge breakthrough in the use of adult stem cells in experiments using dogs: In promising new research, stem cells worked remarkably well at easing symptoms of muscular dystrophy in dogs, an experiment that experts call a significant step toward treating people. “It’s a great […]

In another blow to the Embryonic Stem Cell (ESCR) Voodoo medicine, researchers have been able to take umbilical cord stem cells (technically part of the fetus, not the mother – check the DNA) and grow a small liver from the stem cells found in the cord: British scientists have grown the world’s first artificial liver […]