Promising research is currently being conducted with adult stem cells to treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. These cells are capable of forming into any cell type in the body. One particular study deserves your … Continue reading
HEK (human embryonic kidney) 293 – the number of aborted fetal experiments prior to establishing the cell line. HEK 293 is used to deliver the lentivirus gene in Dr Yamanaka’s adult skin cell reprogramming, as a cell line and reagent … Continue reading
Christopher Lyles was diagnosed with inoperable tracheal cancer. But doctors believe they’ve saved his life, using his own adult stem cells. In November doctors in Sweden used the patient’s own bone marrow stem cells to build a new trachea to … Continue reading
Pro-lifers say that a company Pepsi is collaborating with uses human embryonic kidney cells to develop its flavor enhancers — ingredients that one day are likely to appear in low calorie soda. Continue reading
It looks like the argument over embryonic stem cells is finally over. It will be if the secular press and a great number of politicians are willing to look and listen, even briefly, to the scientific happenings of the last … Continue reading
We thought the anti-life people were quite clever in covering up what happens in an abortion by their use of various misleading terms to describe what actually happens. For example, using terms like fetus instead of baby, or choice over … Continue reading
The GOOD News! We applaud the House approval of the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act (HR 2520). This legislation, which passed by a vote of 431 to 1, proposed by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), will create a new federally … Continue reading
Adam Susser was asphyxiated at birth and as a result was cortically blind (the cortex or cerebral cortex of the brain is affected, causing blindness) with quadriplegic cerebral palsy. Gary and Judy Susser were married for seven years before Judy … Continue reading
Print PDF by Bradley Richard Hughes Jr. Summary: Adult stem cell treatments are beginning to show great promise in treating a wide range of illnesses. Yet the debates in the popular media tend to ignore and obscure the medical breakthroughs … Continue reading
Stem cells, cloning, emergency contraception—all of these are being discussed to a degree and with an intensity that has never before existed. Inappropriate or flatly deceptive wording is clouding much of it. Therefore, it is of extreme importance that we … Continue reading
