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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 [...]
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 [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., M.S., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Lindenwood University's Belleville, IL campus. He is general editor of Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal (CPH, 2011), author of "Natural Law, Human Sexuality, and Forde's 'Acid Test'" appearing in that volume, is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas?, and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.
