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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2009
Reports Reuters,
Researchers have developed a new way to make embryonic-like stem cells by soaking them in genetically engineered proteins, a new step toward using ordinary cells to treat disease.
An international team led by the Scripps Research Institute in California said on Thursday it is the safest method yet found to transform ordinary skin cells into [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2009
Researchers are finding that the FDA-approved drug teriparatide combines with stem cells to heal bones in older patients at rate similar to young people. Notes News-Medical.net,
Baseline research presented in February at the Orthopaedic Research Society meeting revealed that of 145 patients who had an unhealed bone fracture – half of them for six months or [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.